The Elusive Shift
How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity
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Book information
Mit Press
USA
2022
Paperback
310
Standard
320655
978-0-262-54490-0
0-262-54490-3
Fantasy games; History.
Annotation
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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