# The Elusive Shift

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- Book: [The Elusive Shift](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-peterson/the-elusive-shift) ([The Elusive Shift.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-peterson/the-elusive-shift.md))
- Authors: [Jon Peterson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-peterson)
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- ISBN: 978-02-6254-490-0
- Pages: 328
- Published: 2022-03-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre. When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly...