'" The nickname of Lake Orion High School's sports teams ( the Dragons ) is derived from this.

* The Dragons – " Misbehavin '" ( 1977 )

In February 2009, a " Dragons " armchair made by Gray between 1917-1919 ( acquired by her early patron Suzanne Talbot and later part of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé collection ) was sold at auction in Paris for 21. 9 million euros ( US $ 28. 3 million ), setting an auction record for 20th century decorative art.

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

* The children's book Dragons, Dragons by Eric Carle features an amphisbaena.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

The offseason was dominated by three months of unsuccessful trade talks with the Orioles involving 2B Brian Roberts, as well as the signing of Chunichi Dragons star Kosuke Fukudome.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

An immediate predecessor of Dungeons & Dragons was a set of medieval miniature rules written by Jeff Perren.

Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.

* The Acaeum: Site with detailed information on all 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons items produced by TSR up through roughly 1989.

The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer ( CoCo ), and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd., in Port Talbot, Wales, and for the US market by Tano of New Orleans, Louisiana.

For the 1982 animated cult-movie The Flight of Dragons produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., McLean sang the opening theme.

Post-Tolkien fantasy elves ( popularized by the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game ) tend to be more beautiful and wiser than humans, with sharper senses and perceptions.

Many of the elements in EverQuest have been drawn from text-based MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon ) games, particularly DikuMUDs, which in turn were inspired by traditional role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons.

*" The Power of Love ", by I Fight Dragons ( 2010 )

Forseti appears in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game's pantheon, and is often chosen as a patron god by paladins.

Upon the sudden appearance and massive popularity of Dungeons & Dragons from TSR, the company turned its attentions to role-playing games, seeking out and producing systems created by amateurs and freelancers.

Throughout the game's many editions, Gamma World has almost always remained strongly influenced by Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games of the time.

Dungeons & Dragons was first released by TSR in January 1974 as a boxed set.

The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, a variation of the original D & D geared towards younger players and edited by J. Eric Holmes, was released in 1977.

In 1981 the International Fantasy Gaming Society ( IFGS ) started, with rules influenced by Dungeons & Dragons.

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).

The new players signed for the new season under Lancaster were Leigh Hinton from Newport Gwent Dragons, Leinster centre Jonny Hepworth, wing / full-back Richard Welding from Cornish Pirates, scrum-half Jacob Rauluni ex-Earth Titans and Bristol, scrum-half Darren Edwards from London Irish, winger John Holtby from Earth Titans, and centre Anitelia Tuilagi, on loan from Leicester Tigers.

* Bobby Kerr, CEO Insomnia Coffee & Dragon on the Irish Dragons ' Den

* 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons ( b. 1947 )

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

* 1938 – Gary Gygax, American game designer and writer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons ( d. 2008 )

* Gary Gygax-writer and game designer ; co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons

Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons.

In January 2012, it was revealed that Cook was to be the lead designer for the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons ..

Jonathan Tweet is a game designer who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games Ars Magica, Everway, Over the Edge, Talislanta and the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as the Collectible Miniatures Game Dreamblade.

Tweet was lead designer on the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, known internationally for his contributions to the fantasy RPG genre, most notably for the early Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

Game designer Daniel Kaufman remembers " the famous backward-firing guns " as one of the adventure's highlights, and Stephen Colbert, who played Dungeons & Dragons as a child, chose this adventure as his personal favorite.

Eberron was created by author and game designer Keith Baker as the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the Dungeons and Dragons game.

Richard Baker ( full name L. Richard Baker III ) is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

The idea of spell memorization is sometimes called " Vancian " in the game designer community, since its first use, in Dungeons & Dragons, was inspired by the way magic works in Jack Vance's Dying Earth world.

This system is sometimes called " Vancian " in the game designer community, since its first use, in Dungeons & Dragons, was inspired by the way magic works in Jack Vance's Dying Earth world.

* Clash Bowley ( owner, designer, writer, illustrator ; Aquavita, StarCluster, Sweet Chariot, Blood Games, StarCluster 2, Cold Space, FTL Now, Tribes of Mother Night, In Harm's Way: A Napoleonic Naval Roleplaying Game, In Harm's Way: Aces In Spades, Blood Games II, In Harm's Way: Aces And Angels, Sweet Chariot 2, In Harm's Way: Wild Blue, In Harm's Way: Dragons !, Commonwealth Space, On Her Majesty's Arcane Service, and In Harm's Way: StarCluster, StarCluster 3, The Tools of Ignorance, Outremer )

* David Noonan ( game designer ), designer for the Dungeons & Dragons game