Index

Fictional characters are entered under their first name; for example, Raistlin Majere appears under R.
ability scores
Achmed
Acton, Lord
Adventure Game, The (TV show)
afterlife
alignment
- chaotic alignments
- evil alignments
- and free will
- good alignments
- lawful alignments
- and magic
- neutral alignments
- and original sin
alter self (spell)
angels
animals, summoning
animate dead (spell)
anticriterialism
anti-D&D movement
Aquinas, Thomas, St.
Aragorn
arch-liches
archetypes
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Arneson, Dave
art, nature and purpose of
Arthur
Augustine, St.

Bakhtin, Mikhail
Baldur’s Gate II (computer game)
Bane
bards
Beauvoir, Simone de
berserkers
Bible
- on animal welfare
- prohibition of necromancy
blame
bodies, imaginary
Book of Exalted Deeds
Book of Vile Darkness
Borgia, Cesare
Boromir
Bourdieu, Pierre
Brindley, Lewis
Buddhism
Butler, Judith

Camus, Albert
card games
categorical imperatives
Catherine of Alexandria, St.
chaotic alignments
characters,
- archetypes
- classes
- creation of
- death of
- development of
- luck
- motivation
- non-player characters (NPCs)
- sex and gender
Chesterton, G.K.
Chick, Jack
Christian philosophy
- ethics and morality
clerics
Code of Hammurabi
collective intelligence
compatibilism
Conditional Joy, Doctrine of
consequentialism
Constant, Benjamin
contingency
Cook, Monte
Cooke, Brandon
courage
Cover, Jennifer Grouling
creativity
critical thinking
cross-dressing
Crystal Maze, The (TV show)
cultural prejudice, and world-building
cyberculture

Dante Alighieri
“Dark Dungeons” (Chick)
Dawkins, Richard
Day, Felicia
death
deities
- and free will
deontology
depravity
- see also evil alignments
detect evil (spell)
determinism
devils and demons
d’Holbach, Baron
die rolls
difference principle
Diontima
disguise self (spell)
DMs (dungeon masters)
- description of events
- and free will
- management of disputes
- and moral inversion
- world-building
Doctrine of Conditional Joy
drag acts
DragonLance
Drizzt Do’Urden
drow
druids
dualism (soul/body divide)
“Dungeon Master, The” (Lipsyte)
Dungeons & Dragons
- difficulties in playing
- editions
- opposition to
- as spectator sport

e-sport
Eddard Stark
Egyptians, ancient
Eichmann, Adolf
Einstein, Albert
elves
- drow
Emily (Rhapsody)
empiricism
epoche, definition
equality
escapism
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (film)
eternity of torture (spell)
ethics, see morality
eucatastrophe
eudaemonia
evil alignments
- and magic
- and original sin
evil, definition
existentialism
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

familiars
fantasy, as moral tale
feminist philosophy
Fezzik
fighters
Fistandantilus
Foot, Philippa
Forgotten Realms
Forms, definition
free will
Freud, Sigmund
friendship
- see also happiness
Frodo Baggins

game shows (TV shows)
Game of Thrones (Martin)
geek culture
Geek and Sundry (YouTube)
gender identity
Gender Trouble (Butler)
Gilsdorf, Ethan
Gimli
glabrezu demons
goblins
God
Goffman, Erving
Goldman, William
Gollum
good alignments
- and free will
good, definition
grell
Grunthor
Gwydion
Gygax, Gary
Gyges, Ring of

habitual actions
habitus, definition
Hammurabi, Code of
happiness
- see also friendship
happy endings
Haydon, Elizabeth
Heidegger, Martin
Heisenberg, Werner
Hell
Hickman, Laura
Hickman, Tracy
Hildebrand, Dietrich von
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffmann, Tobias
Holbach, Baron d’
Homeland (Salvatore)
honesty
- see also truth
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund
hypothetical imperatives

identity
- and geek culture
- gender identity
- persistence question
illusion
imagination
immersion
imprisonment (spell)
impurity
incontinence
- see also passions
indeterminacy
Inferno (Dante)
Inigo Montoya
intentionality
intertextuality
Inwagen, Peter van
Irigaray, Luce

Jenkins, Henry
judgment, definition
justice
- and free will
- and happiness

Kant, Immanuel
Kearney, Richard
Knightmare (TV show)
knowledge, definition
Krahulik, Jerry
Kurtz, Scott

Lacan, Jacques
Lane, Simon
language, and gender
lawful alignments
Legolas
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Levy, Pierre
libertarianism
Lipsyte, Sam
Locke, John
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
loyalty
luck
Lucretius
lying
- see also truth

Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mackie, J.L.
mages
magic
- necromancy
- rings
- summoning animals
Malory, Sir Thomas
Martin, George R.R.
Maurer, Armand
Mazzanoble, Shelly
Menzoberranzan
Merlin
Merricks, Trenton
metaphysics
Mill, John Stuart
Minecraft (computer game)
MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games)
Monster Manual
morality
- animal rights
- Christian ethics
- deontology
- and free will
- and friendship
- habitual actions
- and magic
- moral inversion
- moral realism
- moral subjectivism
- rights ethics
- utilitarianism
- virtue ethics
- and world-building
Morgan le Fay
Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory)
motivation
Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)

necromancy
Netflix
neutral alignments
new media
Newman, James
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nihilism
Nine Hells
non-player characters (NPCs)
numerical identity (persistence question)

O’Brien, Richard
occult qualities
- see also magic
Olson, Eric T.
“On Fairy-Stories” (Tolkien)
On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius)
online communities
orcs
original sin
Orthodoxy (Chesterton)
Osiris

paladins
- moral duties
participatory culture, definition
passions
- see also incontinence
PAX Prime (Penny Arcade Exposition)
Pelor
Perrin, Don
persistence question
- see also identity
Phaedo (Plato)
phenomenology
Pickens, Jon
Planck, Max
Planescape: Torment (computer game)
Plato
players
- friendships between
- identification with characters
- management of disputes
- motivation
- self-reflection
- women players
- see also role-playing
Player’s Handbook
podcasts
Poetics (Aristotle)
politics
possible worlds
postmodernism
Prince, The (Machiavelli)
Princess Bride, The (Goldman)
psychological identity (persistence question)

qualitative identity (persistence question)
quantum mechanics

raise dead (spell)
Raistlin Majere
randomness
rangers
rationality
- and virtue ethics
Ravenloft
Rawls, John
reality, nature of
reflexive consciousness
- see also self-reflection
Regan, Tom
reincarnate (spell)
relativity
Republic (Plato)
Rhapsody
rights ethics
rings, magical
Robert Baratheon, King
rogues
role-playing
- and animal ethics
- chaotic alignments
- character creation and development
- evil alignments
- freedom of action
- good alignments
- impulsive vs. deliberate actions
- lawful alignments
- MMOGs and LARPing
- neutral alignments
- non-player characters (NPCs)
- and self-reflection
- sex and gender
- as spectator sport
Rollin, Bernard
ropers
Ryle, Gilbert

Tabletop (Geek and Sundry)
Takhisis
Taylor, T.L.
teleology
television game shows
temperance
thinking, definition
Thomson, Judith Jarvis
thought experiments
- free will
- virtue ethics
time
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Tomb of Horrors
torture
transmutation
Treatise on Human Nature, A (Hume)
Trolley Problem (thought experiment)
true resurrection (spell)
truth

Uncertainty Principle (Heisenberg)
undead
utilitarianism

vampires
virtue, definition
virtue ethics
visualization

Walton, Kendall
Walzer, Michael
war
weakness
Weis, Margaret
Wheaton, Wil
Will to Power (Nietzsche)
Winter, Steve
wisdom
Witkowski, Emma
wizards, see mages
women players
world-building
- and ethics
World of Warcraft (MMORPG)

Yogscast

Zaknafein
Zeno of Citium
zombies