- Social aspects, Fantasy games, Dungeons & Dragons (Pen-&-Paper-RPG), History
A fascinating and personal look at Dungeons & Dragons that “tracks D&D’s turbulent rice, fall, and survival, from its heyday in the 1980s…to the twenty-first century” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Nostalgic, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- David M. Ewalt
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Scribner Book Company
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781451640502
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