{"product_id":"the-elusive-shift","title":"The Elusive Shift","description":"How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Game Histories\u003cbr\u003eHow the early Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.When Dungeon \u0026amp; 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\u0026amp;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\u0026amp;D was marketed as a war game. In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D\u0026amp;D community began to apply the term to D\u0026amp;D and similar games--and by doing so, established a new genre of games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Artists \u0026amp; Writers:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon Peterson, a leading scholar of Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons and role-playing games, is the author of Playing at the World and Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons \u0026amp; Arcana: A Visual History.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43736395382975,"sku":"9780262544900","price":67.73,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/9780262544900.jpg?v=1728690608","url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-elusive-shift","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}