In 1977, the game was split into two versions: the relatively rules-light game system of Dungeons & Dragons and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as AD & D or ADnD ).

AD & D 2nd Edition was published in 1989.

In 2000, the original version of the game was discontinued and the AD & D version was renamed Dungeons & Dragons with the release of its 3rd edition.

* Fiensy, David A., " Population, Architecture, and Economy in Lower Galilean Villages and Towns in the First Century AD: A Brief Survey ," in John D. Wineland, Mark Ziese, James Riley Estep Jr. ( eds ), My Father's World: Celebrating the Life of Reuben G. Bullard ( Eugene ( OR ), Wipf & Stock, 2011 ), 101-119.

In 1977, a new version of D & D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ), was first published.

The AD & D rules were not compatible with those of D & D, and as a result, D & D and AD & D became distinct product lines.

Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, editors, 1867 – 1872, Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translation of the writings of the fathers, down to AD 325, Edinburgh: T & T Clark: Vol.

In advertising the team has also won all the major awards including Cannes Lions, British Television Advertising Awards, Clios, D & AD and many more.

* Wesley Phillips ' Greyhawk Page It has some sources of information about Greyhawk from AD & D edition.

* TSR Archive AD & D 2nd Edition Ravenloft product list

Similar mistakes have occurred with other standard AD & D races, such as orcs and lycanthropes, which are not part of the Dragonlance setting.

The original concept was to produce a series of modular supplements which could be used to replace portions of existing roleplaying games ( in particular Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, but also including other contemporary games such as RuneQuest, which was closer to Rolemaster in many respects than AD & D was ).

On the coins of Titus ( 80 – 81 AD ), Aeternitas holds a cornucopia, leans on a scepter, and has one foot placed on a globe, imagery that links the concepts of eternity, prosperity, and world dominion.

This is a list of people, places, things, and concepts related to or originating from the Byzantine Empire ( AD 330 – 1453 ).

253 AD ) concepts with the Old Testament.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

AD 1400, include wooden labrophones in their stretched form, like the alphorn, or coiled versions, such as the '" Büchel " and the " Allgäuisches Waldhorn " or " Ackerhorn ".

A 2nd century AD papyrus of Alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of Alcaeus ' poetry during the 20th century ( P. Berol.

An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.

because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as " Christ " and Domin-(" Lord "), which are used in the BC / AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

Hero of Alexandria is credited with many such wind and steam powered machines in the 1st century AD, including the Aeolipile, but it is not known if any of these were put to practical use.

In the Preterist approach, Revelation chiefly refers to the events of the first century, such as the struggle of Christianity to survive the persecutions of the Roman Empire, the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and the desecration of the temple in the same year.

Between the 4th and 16th centuries, the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about March 21 in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March.

The belief in a disk remained the dominant one in Indian cosmology until the early centuries AD, such as in the Puranas:

Arabic sources, such as Rhazes ( Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi 865 – 925 AD ), continue to be the source of discovery of new or relatively inaccessible Galenic writings.

For many reasons scholars today believe otherwise — for example, the gospel is based on Mark, and " it seems unlikely that an eyewitness of Jesus's ministry, such as Matthew, would need to rely on others for information about it "— and believe instead that it was written between about 80 – 90 AD by a highly educated Jew ( an " Israelite ", in the language of the gospel itself ), intimately familiar with the technical aspects of Jewish law, standing on the boundary between traditional and non-traditional Jewish values.

The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.

Having already acculturated various aspects of Hellenic culture, ancient writers and up through the 17th century such as Francis Bacon and other Renaissance writers called them " Gallo-Graeci ", " Gauls settled among the Greeks " and the country " Gallo-Graecia ", as had the 3rd century AD Latin historian Justin.

Like the elongated scroll scenes of Kaizhi, Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) Chinese artists like Wu Daozi painted vivid and highly detailed artwork on long horizontal handscrolls ( which were very popular during the Tang ), such as his Eighty Seven Celestial People.

An example of such would be Qian Xuan ( 1235 – 1305 AD ), who was an official of the Song Dynasty, but out of patriotism, refused to serve the Yuan court and dedicated himself to painting.

The method was first used at the Dolaucothi gold mine in Wales from 75 AD onwards, but had been developed in Spain at such mines as Las Medulas.

However, the account of Josephus differs from that of later works by Hegesippus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea that it simply has James stoned while the others have other variations such as having James thrown from the top of the Temple, stoned, and finally beaten to death by laundrymen as well as his death occurring during the siege of Jerusalem in AD 69.

At about this time, Tacitus, in his work Germania ( AD 98 ), describes the Lombards as such:

At the height of Viking expansion into Dublin and Jorvik 875-954 AD the longship reached a peak of development such as the Gokstad ship 890.

Moses also appears in other religious texts such as the Mishnah ( c. 200 AD ), Midrash ( AD 200 – 1200 ), and the Qur ' an ( c. 610 — 653 ).

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

They are named after the Biblical character Cush, who was traditionally identified as an ancestor of the speakers of these specific languages as early as AD 947 ( in Masudi's Arabic history Meadows of Gold ).

The 2000 AD series Finn, begun the year after Crisis was cancelled, continued the adventures of the character from Third World War, though with more of a fantasy emphasis.

In " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Shakespeare casually bestowed upon Theseus-a semi-legendary character, dated to the misty time of the Second Millenium BC-the title of " Duke of Athens ", which derives from the Latin conquest the Byzantine Empire in the 13th Century AD ...

In contrast, in AD & D the fireball spell is unlikely to kill a character in a same average level as the caster.

Turkestan covers the area of Central Asia and acquired its " Turkic " character from the 4th to 6th centuries AD with the incipient Turkic expansion.

The main character of this book, Judge Dee, was based on the real statesman and detective Di Renjie, who lived in the 7th century, during the Tang Dynasty ( AD 600 – 900 ), though in the novel itself elements of Ming Dynasty China ( AD 1300 – 1600 ) were mixed in.

GameSpot declared that Pool of Radiance, with its detailed art, wide variety of quests and treasure, and tactical combat system, and despite the availability of only four character classes and the low character level cap, " ultimately succeeded in its goal of bringing a standardized form of AD & D to the home computer, and laid the foundation for other future gold box AD & D role-playing games ".

* Johnny Alucard, a character in the film Dracula AD 1972

It includes references to Taxi Driver, Ms. 45, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Deathmaster, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, The Light at the End, Death Wish, Convoy, Vampirella, Natural Born Killers, Badlands, Nocturna, Cruising, Vampire Junction, The Addiction, and The Lost Boys, as well as taking its title from a character in the film Dracula AD 1972.

Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division.

( Note that the Anderson in the Judge Dredd and Batman crossover stories is the original 2000 AD version of the character.

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* Judge Cal, a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD

which means: " Its character: may come from herb / grass ( 茶 chá from 文字音義 Wénzì yīnyì in 736 AD ), or from tree / wood ( 梌 tú from 本草經 Běncǎojīng, an ancient medical text ), or the combination of the two ( 荼 tú from the 爾雅 Ěryǎ, atreatise on lexicography from the Han dynasty )"

Rico Dredd is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD magazine.

Judge Death is a fictional character of the Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD.

Judge Kraken is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip featured in the long-running British comic 2000 AD.

They are best known for their Doctor Who line ; other properties include the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from 2000 AD, Dark Shadows, Sapphire & Steel, Stargate, Blake's 7 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character.

* Angel ( 2000 AD ), a character and story from 2000 AD