They intended to present it to Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1977, but changed their minds once at the Con, where they met Scott Bizar who wrote out a letter of intent.

The gelatinous cube is an invention of Gary Gygax, and first appeared in the Monster Manual ( 1977 ), rather than being lifted from outside sources and adapted to a roleplaying setting, as were many mythological monsters like the minotaur and dryad.

Sahuagin were created by Steve Marsh, a gamer who invented many of the game's early aquatic monsters ( Gygax 1977, p.

In the original Monster Manual ( 1977 ) by Gary Gygax, the only elementals that appeared were those of fire, air, water, and earth.

Gary Gygax encountered the Middle English word dweomercræft in Susan Kelz Sperling's book Poplollies & Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words ( 1977 ), where it is defined as " the art of magic or juggling.

The mimic made its first appearance in the original Monster Manual ( 1977 ), by Gary Gygax.

Gygax wrote them to take a break between writing the original Monster Manual ( 1977 ) and Player's Handbook ( 1978 ).

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award until 1980.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award till 1980.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

In 1977 it began to publish and maintain a much-improved, revised version of Bliss ’ s system, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification ( Second Edition ) or BC2.

Marker then began work on one of his most ambitious films, A Grin Without a Cat, released in 1977.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1997 ), an Amtrak train that began running from Richmond, Virginia to New York train in 1977 and eventually became part of the Northeast Regional.

Styx began its series of concept albums in 1977 with The Grand Illusion-focused on self-constructed and societal walls ( similar to The Wall by Pink Floyd )-then followed it with Pieces of Eight in 1978.

In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.

Production began in 1977, following completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

At this point Adams began to experiment with electronic music, and his experiences are reflected in the writing of Phrygian Gates ( 1977 – 78 ), in which the constant shifting between modules in Lydian mode and Phrygian mode refers to activating electronic gates rather than architectural ones.

Around 1977, the subculture began to diversify with the proliferation of factions such as 2 Tone, Oi !, pop punk, New Wave, and No Wave.

Moves towards a strict liability regime in Europe began with the Council of Europe Convention on Products Liability in regard to Personal Injury and Death ( the Strasbourg Convention ) in 1977.

It gained notoriety as a midnight movie in 1977 when audiences began participating with the film in theatres.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro.

He began writing in 1977.

Sri Lanka began to shift away from a socialist orientation in 1977.

On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities.

He began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in 1977 to study some questions about baseball he found interesting, and their eclectic mix of essays based on new kinds of statistics soon became popular with a generation of thinking baseball fans.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

Originally scheduled for May / June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial ( and speculative ) print run of 4, 000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but, owing to the increase in available space, began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

In addition to his works directly addressing problem solving, Pólya wrote another short book called Mathematical Methods in Science, based on a 1963 work supported by the National Science Foundation, edited by Leon Bowden, and published by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) in 1977.

and It Happened to Jane In 1977 PBS broadcast a compilation series of Kovacs ' television work, and Lemmon served as the narrator of the series.

*" Art: Pure, Uncluttered Hedonism ", a 2 May 1977 review of Kenneth Noland's work by Robert Hughes of Time magazine

During Brezhnev's final years, Chernenko became fully immersed in ideological Party work: Heading Soviet delegations abroad, accompanying Brezhnev to important meetings and conferences, and was a member of the commission that revised the Soviet Constitution in 1977.

* Orpheus ( 1977 ) ( text by Lodewijk de Boer ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, lyricon, electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion

* 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

However, work by Alfred Goldberg in 1977 on ATP-dependent protein degradation in reticulocytes, which lack lysosomes, suggested the presence of a second intracellular degradation mechanism.

Allen's stop motion work can also be seen in such feature films as The Crater Lake Monster ( 1977 ), Q-The Winged Serpent ( 1982 ), The Gate ( 1986 ) and Freaked ( 1993 ).

* A Little Night Music, ( 1977 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work.

Grobschnitt were known not only for their symphonic passages, suites and synthesiers, but also for the absurd humour and strange noises in their work, as heard on Ballerman ( 1974 ) and Rockpommel's Land ( 1977 ).

Gay men and lesbians came together to work in grassroots political organizations responding to organized resistance in 1977.

He received the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on Mad and Groo the Wanderer.

Viola was invited to show work at La Trobe University ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 1977, by cultural arts director Kira Perov.

In the UK work on the Experimental Packet Switched system circa 1973, the need to define so called higher level protocols above the HDLC link level communications protocol and the content of an NCC ( UK ) publication ' Why Distributed Computing ' resulting from considerable research into future configurations for computer systems resulted in the UK presenting the case for an International Standards Committee to cover this area at the ISO meeting in Sydney in March 1977.

Braverman's thesis has however been contested, notably by Andrew Freidman in his work " Industry and Labour " ( 1977 ).

Erhard continued his political work by remaining a member of the West German parliament until his death in Bonn on 5 May 1977.

Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn ( 1977 ), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and her work found new audiences in the United States.

However, he also said that in 1977 United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes.

In 1972, Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour published the folio, A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas later revised in 1977 as Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form using the student work as a foil for new theory.

Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre ( 1977 ) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre ( 1979 ; Copper Canyon Press, 2007 ) ( translated by Lewis Hyde ).

* The work of the scholar of political communication Murray Edelman ( 1919 – 2001 ), starting with his seminal book The Symbolic Uses of Politics ( 1964 ), continuing with Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience ( 1971 ), Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail ( 1977 ), Constructing the Political Spectacle ( 1988 ) and ending with his last book The Politics of Misinformation ( 2001 ) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.