This is not about teaching students through games in order to entertain them, or to distract them from the other media vying for their daily attention.

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"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil, " says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and teaching classics at Ohio State.

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