The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity by Peterson, Jon

The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262544900)

Vendor: Jon Peterson
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Format: Paperback
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The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity by Peterson, Jon

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

$32.00
The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity by Peterson, Jon

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

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jon Peterson
ISBN-10: 0262544903
ISBN-13: 9780262544900
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Jon Peterson
By Jon Peterson
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Jon Peterson, a leading scholar of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games, is the author of Playing at the World and Dungeons & Dragons & Arcana: A Visual History.

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