Wizards of the Game

by Lubar, David

• ISBN13: 9780142402153
• ISBN10: 014240215X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Puffin

Summary

Mercer may seem like your average eighth-grader, but every day during study hall, he rolls the dice and conquers the world in Wizards of the Warrior World, a fantasy role- playing game. In the game, Mercer is Shath’dra, sixth-level Warrior-Mage, fighting to survive and gain wealth and power. Mercer lives for the excitement of the game, until one day when reality becomes even stranger than fantasy. When a group of religious fanatics protest the game for its simulated use of magic, the press picks up on the story, and Mercer finds himself being stalked by four real-life wizards who are desperate for his help. With his life suddenly in danger, role-playing takes on a whole new meaning for Mercer Dickensen.

Table of Contents

Killing Time	p. 1
Raising Tcouble	p. 6
Stripped of All Dignity	p. 11
A Devil of a Problem	p. 16
The DownSide of Downtown	p. 21
Let the Games Begin	p. 27
Meeting With Some Problems	p. 32
What's the Big Idea?	p. 37
Welcome to My Other World	p. 44
Meet Chuck	p. 49
No More Mr. Knife Guy	p. 55
Ed Fled	p. 60
A Heck of a Column	p. 64
Demon-stration	p. 70
Flipped Out	p. 76
Press Start	p. 83
De-fence	p. 89
Don't Read Everything You Believe	p. 95
A Little Help	p. 100
Disorderly Conduct	p. 106
Hit by a Board	p. 113
For My Next Trick...	p. 119
The Tables Are (Re)turned	p. 123
Playing With the Truth	p. 128
Vanishing Wizards	p. 132
Look Who Popped Up	p. 137
Stopping by the Art Room for a Spell	p. 143
Mind If I Cut In?	p. 149
Dust in the Nick of Time	p. 154
Mopping Up	p. 159
Fun and No Games	p. 164
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