A new study published in the International Journal of Role-playing reveals that academics are successfully using “stealth design” to embed social theories into commercially published Dungeons & Dragons adventures. By hiding Marxist and Fanonian critiques of colonialism within the familiar tropes of fantasy roleplaying games, researchers from Maynooth University have demonstrated that players can be prompted toward a “critical awakening” without …
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