Finished reading: The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson 📚
Growing up with role-playing games, I take for granted what a role-playing game is, even as the hobby continues to evolve. The Elusive Shift explores how role-playing games came to be. More importantly, what are role-playing games?
It was fascinating to learn how quickly role-playing games matured quickly within a decade. I see many of the questions asked in the 70s that are still being answered today in the rise of narrative-based games.