What If Your Friends Actually Believed role-playing games?
What if you were playing with a regular group of RP gamers but then you realized that they actually believed they 'are' the characters they play?
I would try to move very far away from them as possible and even report it to the authorities in case they end up trying to do something foolish and try to implicate me because I was part of their group.
You mean we aren't?
Just kidding.
I remember when Dungeons & Dragons first started to get noticed by the media (Yeah, I'm that old), and people were freaking out about it. There was even a movie about it, called Mazes and Monsters, in which Tom Hanks has a psychotic breakdown because he rolled too many dice or something. It's sadly hilarious.
If I thought my friends were going coo-coo I would desperately try to confirm they weren't, I mostly would not believe that after all this time I did not realize they were nuts before. I would eventually have to do what Krusten said.
That's kind of the "Mazes and Monsters" Issue all over again, isn't it? Considering the violence in our games (All permissible in the fantasy societies of the games, of course), I'd have to call the police to have them committed to an institution for some serious therapy for personality disassociation. I have too many swords and other things that they would try to get a hold of for anyone's safety. I hope I could talk them down; it's kind of a scary scenario.
If they did do crazy things and people saw me attending the game meetings then I could be in a lot of trouble by association. Therefore going to the police ASAP will be necessary if they talked of violence.