Fifty years of Dungeons & Dragons

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"An edited collection that overviews the game's evolution, the broader sociocultural impacts it has had throughout its first 50 years, and reflects on D&D's past, present, and future"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780262547604

Description:

ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Fifty years of Dungeons and Dragons
50 years of Dungeons and Dragons

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Designer vignettes I
Fantasy games at fifty: an academic memoir / Gary Alan Fine
Exploration and experience (E&E): The game changers / Jon Peterson
Combat in Dungeons and Dragons: a short history of design trajectories / Evan Torner
"Doctor Holmes, i presume?": how a California neurology professor penned the first Dungeons & Dragons basic set / Tony A. Rowe and Zach Howard
Reflections on the open game license (OGL): an interview with Ryan Dancey / Michael Iantorno
Playing custom: a curious history of Dungeons & Dragons- based digital games modifications / Mateusz Felczak
A return to the magic circle: Dungeons & Dragons and Friendship & Magic fifty years on! / Stephen Webley
Influencing Dungeons & Dragons
Designer Vignettes II
"You're going to be amazing": the Mercer effect and performative play in Dungeons & Dragons / Esther MacCallum-Stewart
The other D&D: religion(s) in Dungeons & Dragons from deities & demigods to Today / Adrian Hermann
Spelling with dice: the role of Dungeons & Dragons in contemporary speculative fiction / Dimitra Nikolaidou
Classrooms and dragons: learning from Dungeons & Dragons / Premeet Sidhu
An ensemble of (Role) players?: exploring the influence of performance on Dungeons & Dragons / David Harris and Josiah Lulham
Forging family through queer Dungeons & Dragons / Jay Malouf-Grice
Critically playing Dungeons & Dragons
Designer Vignettes III
"Race" and race: longitudinal trends in Dungeons and Dragons character creation / Amanda Cote and Emily Saidel
Hack the orcs, loot the tomb, and take the land: reflections on settler colonialism, indigeneity, and otherwise possibilities of Dungeons and Dragons / Daniel Heath Justice
Seeking the unimaginable: rules, race, and adolescent desire in Dungeons and Dragons / Aaron Trammell and Antero Garcia
Defamiliarizing Dungeons and Dragons: playing out western fantasy in Singapore / Kellynn Wee
Soft communities and vicarious deviance in Dungeons and Dragons / Victor Raymond and Gary Alan Fine
Futures
Designer Vignettes IV

LCCN:

2023018019

Control Number:

3328629

Other Authors:

Carter, Marcus, editor
Sidhu, Premeet, editor
Zagal, José Pablo, editor

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