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The Elusive Shift: How Roleplaying Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories)
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How The Early Dungeons & Dragons Community Grappled With The Nature Of Roleplaying Games, Theorizing A New Game Genre.When Dungeons & Dragons Made Its Debut In The Mid1970S, 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 Roleplaying Game. But In The Original Rules, The Term Roleplaying Is Nowhere To Be Found; D&D Was Marketed As A Wargame. 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 Gamesand By Doing So, Established A New Genre Of Games.Peterson Examines Key Essays By D&D Early Adopters, Rescuing From Obscurity Many First Published In Nowdefunct Fanzines. He Traces The Evolution Of D&D Theorizing, As Writers Attempted To Frame Problems, Define Terms, And Engage With Prior Literature. He Describes The Two Cultures Of Wargames And Science Fiction Fandom That Provided D&D'S First Players; Examines The Dialogue At The Core Of The Game; Explains How Game Design Began To Accommodate Roleplaying; And Considers The Purpose Of The Referee Or Gamesmaster. By 1977, Game Scholars And Critics Began To Theorize More Systematically, And Peterson Explores Their Discussions Of The Transformative Nature Of Roleplaying Games, Their Responsibility To A Mass Audience, And Other Topics. Peterson Finds That The Foundational Concepts Defined In The 1970S Helped Theorize Roleplaying, Laying The Foundation For The Genre'S Shift Into Maturity In The 1980S.
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