Storytelling in the Modern Board Game

Marco Arnaudo is a professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches classes about game design, simulations, military history, mystery fiction, and Italian literature. He is a well-known reviewer of board games, with over 1,000 video reviews. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. How Tabletop Games Can Tell Stories2. Other Narratological Considerations3. The Board Games of Dungeons & Dragons4. Tolkien’s Legacy5. The First Splash6. Children of the Dragons7. The Age of Expansion8. Paragraph-Based Games9. Overproduction and Its Discontents10. The New Board Games of Dungeons & Dragons11. Return of the ­Story-Driven Board Game12. How We Stopped Worrying About Replay Value and Learned to Love the StoryEpilogueGlossaryChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“An excellent addition to the nascent contemporary study of analog board games...an eminently readable exploration of an under-examined facet of contemporary boardgaming.”—Analogue Game Studies.