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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 5743208" data-attributes="member: 198">That's awesome. There's nothing like catching potential gamers early and I think roleplaying games are a damn fun teaching tool. I've actually run a quick adventure in a first-year composition course (so for 20 students, almost all non-gamers) as an exercise in creating a text, adapting to audience, use of critical thinking, etc. The students played themselves in the adventure, dealing with a zombie attack on the campus, using d20s and a "character sheet" consisting of three qualities which I had each jot down for themselves before we began. There was lots of creativity and teamwork, some really amusing moments, a couple of heroic sacrifices, etc. and an awesome climactic battle between the surviving students and the evil mastermind creating the zombies using black magic and too much weed (who was actually a student from the course who had dropped out, in part because he was spending too much time on weed). The students loved it and the exercise gave me a very good reference I could refer back to throughout the rest of the semester.</blockquote>