This talk will discuss my experiences as a law professor who has used historical gaming in my courses on international law and history for more than 30 years.
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This talk will discuss the different games that I have used, the ways that I use them, the reactions of the students, the changes that I have made through the years, the differences between using board games and computer games, and the differences between using games in higher education and elsewhere.
1972. You are Soviet Union explorers aboard the nuclear icebreaker Lenin (only two previous reactor accidents) navigating into Arctic waters some apparatchik said is "maybe good" for oil drilling.
Kelrekhan, lord of the kalbakar, has been awakened and now plagues the Human kingdom of Kynderr. All attempts to defeat the ancient evil have been unsuccessful, and the kingdom is on the brink of falling. The Heroes of Valyn have come from afar to save the kingdom. Can they defeat the beast and his minions or has the kalbakar and his creatures become too strong to conquer? (Part 1 of 2)
Kelrekhan, lord of the kalbakar, has been awakened and now plagues the Human kingdom of Kynderr. All attempts to defeat the ancient evil have been unsuccessful, and the kingdom is on the brink of falling. The Heroes of Valyn have come from afar to save the kingdom. Can they defeat the beast and his minions or has the kalbakar and his creatures become too strong to conquer? (Part 1 of 2)
Kelrekhan, lord of the kalbakar, has been awakened and now plagues the Human kingdom of Kynderr. All attempts to defeat the ancient evil have been unsuccessful, and the kingdom is on the brink of falling. The Heroes of Valyn have come from afar to save the kingdom. Can they defeat the beast and his minions or has the kalbakar and his creatures become too strong to conquer? (Part 2 of 2)
Kelrekhan, lord of the kalbakar, has been awakened and now plagues the Human kingdom of Kynderr. All attempts to defeat the ancient evil have been unsuccessful, and the kingdom is on the brink of falling. The Heroes of Valyn have come from afar to save the kingdom. Can they defeat the beast and his minions or has the kalbakar and his creatures become too strong to conquer? (Part 2 of 2)
Twilight:2000 is a role playing game set in a fictional future, one where World War III began in the late 1990's and eventually slipped into a nuclear exchange, changing society as we know it. Characters take the SSN City of Corpus Christi, the last U.S. nuclear submarine, on a mission of extreme importance through the Dardanelles and the Straits of the Bosporus to Romania to pick up DIA agents and extricate a pair of Soviet scientists.
Following some traumatic events, costumed metahuman activity on Olympus Island has nearly vanished from view. Staying out of the limelight does not mean letting evil have its way, however, and in dire circumstances, some of the still-active superheroes join together. For more info, see http://www.angelfire.com/games4/oim/conventions/cons.html
Following some traumatic events, costumed metahuman activity on Olympus Island has nearly vanished from view. Staying out of the limelight does not mean letting evil have its way, however, and in dire circumstances, some of the still-active superheroes join together. For more info, see http://www.angelfire.com/games4/oim/conventions/cons.html
After a mysterious disease infected millions, survivors began to flee major cities as the recent dead began to walk again. By an means, survivors have been flocking to the countryside to seek shelter from the ravenous creatures once called friends and family. Can you escape to find an oasis of sanity? An upcoming road sign says the next exit has the last gas station in 50 miles and you are running out of gas. Can you fill'er up and get out of town before you become walking dead?