Jon Peterson is the author of Playing at the World, widely seen as the definitive history of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as coauthor of the visual history Dungeons & Dragons: Art and Arcana and the D&D cookbook Heroes’ Feast. In his new book, The Elusive Shift, he explores how D&D and similar products came to be called “role-playing games.”
“This is the story of who the people were who picked up these games and saw this property of ‘role-playing’ in them, and how that label first got attached, and what people thought it meant,” Peterson says in Episode 446 of …
