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Role-playing games seemed to appear of nowhere in the early 1970s
and have been a quiet but steady presence in American culture ever
since. This new look at the hobby searches for the historical
origins of role-playing games deep in the imaginative worlds of
Western culture. It looks at the earliest fantasy stories from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the fans--both readers and
writers--who wanted to bring them to life, at the Midwestern
landscape and the middle-class households that were the hobby's
birthplace, and at the struggle to find meaning and identity amidst
cultural conflicts that drove many people into these communities of
play. This book also addresses race, religion, gender, fandom, and
the place these games have within American capitalism. All the
paths of this journey are connected by the very quality that has
made fantasy role-playing so powerful: it binds the limitless
imagination into a "strict" framework of rules. Far from being an
accidental offshoot of marginalized fan communities, role-playing
games' ability to hold contradictions in dynamic, creative tension
made them a necessary and central product of the twentieth century.
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