Dungeons & dragons and philosophy : read and gain advantage on all wisdom checks / edited by Christopher Robichaud.
Do demons and devils have free will? Does justice exist in Menzoberranzan? What's the morality involved with player characters casting necromancy and summoning spells? Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophy probes the rich terrain of philosophically compelling concepts and ideas that underlie Du...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden :
Wiley-Blackwell,
[2014]
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| Series: | Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
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Table of Contents:
- Sympathy for the devils : free will and Dungeons & Dragons / Greg Littmann
- Paragons and knaves : does good character make for a Good character? / J.K. Miles and Karington Hess
- Is anyone actually Chaotic Evil? : a playable theory of willful wrongdoing / Neil Mussett
- Save vs. death : some reflections on the lifecycle of PCs / Christopher Robichaud
- To my other self : reflection and existentialism in Dungeons & Dragons / Rob Crandall and Charles Taliaferro
- Player-character is what you are in the dark : the phenomenology of immersion in Dungeons & Dragons / William J. White
- Imagination and creation : the morality of fiction in Dungeons & Dragons / Robert A. Feldino and Jerome C. Hillock
- Dungeonmastery as soulcraft / Ben Dyer
- Menzoberranzan : a perfect unjust state / Matt Hummel
- Who Is Raistlin Majere? / Kevin McCain
- Expediency and expendability : an exhumation of the morality of necromancy / Matthew Jones and Ashley Brown
- By friendship or force : is it ethical to summon animals to fight by your side in Dungeons & Dragons? / Samantha Holl
- "Kill her, kill her! Oh God, I'm sorry!" : spectating Dungeons & Dragons / Esther MacCallum-Stewart
- Berserker in a skirt : sex and gender in Dungeons & Dragons / Shannon M. Mussett
- "Others play at dice" : friendship and Dungeons & Dragons / Jeffery L. Nicholas.