Name: How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play (en Inglés)
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Author: Aaron Trammell

portada How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play (en Inglés)

How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Aaron Trammell

Colección

Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

182

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.8x6 cm

ISBN13

9781478034131

How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play (en Inglés)

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First released in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons revolutionized game design and interactive media by allowing players to create and perform their own fictional characters in a fantasy world as expansive as their imaginations would allow. That freedom, and the rules that governed it, weren’t a creative coincidence. In How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play, Aaron Trammell excavates the game as an artifact of a burgeoning counterculture obsessed with individualism as well as quantification. Mapping the world onto a grid, building characters whose every trait is assigned a point value, and advancing the game’s narrative through dice throws—countless core mechanics are tied to numbers. Putting the game design of D&D into dialogue with the social and political tensions of the 1970s and 80s, Trammell illuminates how the integrated quantification in the game design led to reductionism, reinforced oppressive gender and racial norms, and accustomed generations of players to the bigoted, xenophobic mores of the Cold War era. He delivers a history of both how games can shape players and how players, united by their own shared values, can shape games in turn.

In How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play, Aaron Trammell reveals how popular culture influenced the design of the iconic tabletop game and how the game’s legacy, in turn, influences game design today.