 McGinniss's "Cruel Doubt" was adapted as a 2-part miniseries of the same name, aired in May 1992.Both books and television films heavily emphasized the three perpetrators' interest in the role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons", which they sometimes acted out with real weapons in the steam tunnels of their college campus while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.However, "Kirkus Reviews", in discussing Bledsoe's "Blood Games", commented that "the linkage [Bledsoe] attempts to establish between Dungeons & Dragons and the crime seems tenuous."