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The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

Peterson, Jon

Paperback

Series: Game Histories

Role Playing GamesAnthropology

ISBN10: 0262544903
ISBN13: 9780262544900
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Mar 29 2022
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.

When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term role-playing is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game. In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games--and by doing so, established a new genre of games.

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