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 & 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 & 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 & Dragons / Daniel Heath Justice -- Seeking the unimaginable: rules, race, and adolescent desire in Dungeons & Dragons / Aaron Trammell and Antero Garcia -- Defamiliarizing Dungeons & Dragons: playing out western fantasy in Singapore / Kellynn Wee -- Soft communities and vicarious deviance in Dungeons & Dragons / Victor Raymond and Gary Alan Fine -- Futures -- Designer Vignettes IV.
Summary:
"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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