The Elusive Shift

How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

Jon Peterson

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MIT Press
03 May 2022

Hobbies, quizzes & games

Series: Game Histories

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.

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.

By: Jon Peterson
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 391g
ISBN: 9780262544900
ISBN 10: 0262544903
Series: Game Histories
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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The Elusive Shift

How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

Jon Peterson

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