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

Peterson, Jon

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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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MIT PR

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Games & Activities

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Role Playing & Fantasy

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Paperback

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8.9 Inches

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6.0 Inches

Publication Date

2022-03-29

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1.1 Inches

ISBN 10

0262544903

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0.9 Pounds

Book EAN

9780262544900

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Adults

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