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

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

Game Histories

Jon Peterson

320 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.When Dungeons & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, i...

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