Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

＂An edited collection that overviews the game’s evolution, the broader sociocultural impacts it has had throughout its first 50 years, and reflects on D&D’s past, present, and future.＂--

Premeet Sidhu is an accredited English and History teacher and PhD student at the University of Sydney. Her PhD looks at the modern resurgence and educational application of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

Marcus Carter is Associate Professor in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. With Kelly Bergstrom and Darryl Woodford, he edited Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader and is the author of Treacherous Play (MIT Press).

José P. Zagal is a professor in the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program. He is the author of Ludoliteracy; coauthor, with Sebastian Deterding, of Role-Playing Game Studies; and editor of The Videogame Ethics Reader and Game Design Snacks. He was honored as a DiGRA Distinguished Scholar and a Fellow of the Higher-Education Videogame Alliance (HEVGA) for his contributions to games research.