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Analog Game Studies has been commenting on the social politics of D&D -- including dynamics of ideology, racism, sexism, disability, and other aspects -- for over 6 years.

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Dungeons in D&D themselves were a product of a specific set of Cold War fantasies, as @aarontram argues. Caves and bunkers became early sites of game design fascination and mapmaking, with thermonuclear war as a lurking backdrop.

analoggamestudies.org/2014/08/from-w…
The act of playing D&D, argues @nickmizer, involves rapid frame switching between many different modes of attention and storytelling.

analoggamestudies.org/2014/08/179/
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