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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9782066" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I highly, highly, highly recommend the book (The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson) because, um, it's awesome. And also because it really does shed a lot of debate not just on this topic, but also on a lot of the recurring ... topics we have here on EnWorld. I think it would be almost impossible to read that book and not have a new perspective on a lot of the issues we talk about here today- it might not change your opinion on things, but it will certainly provide fresh insights into how far back a lot of the debates we are having go- and also provides an excellent resource showing that the early days of TTRPGs were an explosion of creativity and experimentation and intellectual debate that cannot be captured in the typical grognard's tale of, "I played a third level Magic User who was killed by a kobold with a rusty butter knife, and that's how it was, and we loved it that way!" that we often see today.</blockquote>