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Jan 25, 2021 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
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.
A list of D&D-related greatest hits, for those interested
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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.
