Roll with Advantage

Roll with Advantage: Creative Collaborative and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons is an interdisciplinary multi-genre mixed-form anthology featuring poetry fiction creative nonfiction personal essays interviews and analytical scholarship about and inspired by D&D-the game the legends the media and the people. The book is a playful imaginative and critical response to D&D's pop cultural renaissance particularly during and after the global pandemic with its appearances on television shows like Stranger Things Community and The Big Bang Theory celebrity players like Vin Diesel Deborah Ann Woll Tim Duncan Stephen Colbert even Dame Judi Dench as well as the growing popularity of actual play shows like Critical Role and Dimension 20. Roll with Advantage gathers multiple voices new and old and cutting-edge perspectives to explore: D&D and narrative storytelling and worldbuilding; the relationships between D&D and players characters game masters and gaming communities; and the intersection of D&D and gender race queerness intertextuality language material culture nostalgia affect pedagogy and more.