Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds
In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds. No longer limited to simply reading books or watching movies, gamers came together to collaboratively and interactively build and explore new realms
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Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds Nicholas J. Mizer
Palgrave Games in Context Series Editors Neil Randall The Games Institute University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada Steve Wilcox Game Design and Development Wilfrid Laurier University Brantford, ON, Canada
Games are pervasive in contemporary life, intersecting with leisure, work, health, culture, history, technology, politics, industry, and beyond. These contexts span topics, cross disciplines, and bridge professions. Palgrave Games in Context situates games and play within such interdisciplinary and interprofessional contexts, resulting in accessible, applicable, and practical scholarship for students, researchers, game designers, and industry professionals. What does it mean to study, critique, and create games in context? This series eschews conventional classifications—such as academic discipline or game genre—and instead looks to practical, real-world situations to shape analysis and ground discussion. A single text might bring together professionals working in the field, critics, scholars, researchers, and designers. The result is a broad range of voices from a variety of disciplinary and professional backgrounds contributing to an accessible, practical series on the various and varied roles of games and play. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16027
Nicholas J. Mizer
Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds
Nicholas J. Mizer Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA
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