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Create Content for your Favorite Games. About Us. Privacy Policy. Our Latest Newsletter. Product Reviews. Newsletter RSS Feed. Start Over Advanced Search. Products found in this section The Demon Plagues are the second wave of destruction to wash over the Earth and shake the foundation of human civilization. The Rifts are spewing creatures from nightmare dimensions bent For more information, visit www. This preview includes the front cover, credits, contents, author's introduction, invasion overview, the intro to Scrap Zombies, and the full text and stats for the Soldier Boy Scrap Zombie.

Overnight, human civilization is toppled. Many major cities are wiped from the face of the Earth. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds and the demonic horrors, aliens and monsters emerging First the Great Cataclysm and the collapse of human civilization, followed by the Demon Plagues, and now magic has returned to Earth in ways nobody could ever have imagined.

Ordinary people are developing magical powers and spell casting abilities. Some use Player characters are heroes lost in the throes of the Apocalypse. Equipped with the most advanced robots, power armor and weapons in the world, they refuse to give up, and fight against overwhelming odds to save some fraction of humankind.

Meanwhile, nightmarish creatures A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game.

Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religion—as a socially constructed world of shared meaning—can also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil.

By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds.

The author examines both the benefits and the drawbacks of role-playing games and their application to real-world teaching techniques. Readers will learn how to incorporate games-based instruction into their own classes and workplace training, as well as approaches to redesigning curriculum and programs.

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