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Article: Violence, mayhem -- it's all in the game: Hard-core gamers assemble for a weekend of fantasy and role-playing at annual DunDraCon.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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Byline: Eric Kurhi
Feb. 18--SAN RAMON -- They were on Fantasy Island in the equivalent of Fantasyland -- removed from reality, squared. Five "marginally powered sitcom heroes" were at the end of their role-playing game and had successfully removed Mr. Rourke from a genie lamp. "I've foiled the plot of Siegfried and shot two Nazis," said Robert Dorf of New Jersey, who was playing the role of Maxwell Smart. "Now my fantasy is over." A marshal entered Room 151 at the San Ramon Marriott on Saturday and told the group they had to clear out; a line was queued up to use the space for a session of "Master, Where Are You?" That group's mission: to play ...