* Average Party Level, a term used in Role Playing Games such as Dungeons & Dragons

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 ).

* Aberration ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a creature type in the role-playing game

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

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the amphisbaena is depicted as in traditional myth as a giant serpent with a head at both ends.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

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.

BRP was developed from a core set of attributes similar to the original Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ).

Similarly, authors of fantasy role-playing games sometimes compile bestiaries as references, such as the Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons.

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.

For its time, the game was considered " light years " ahead of the Original Dungeons & Dragons.

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 d20 system also made it possible to use Dungeons & Dragons characters in Call of Cthulhu, as well as to introduce the Cthulhu Mythos into Dungeons & Dragons games.

* Charon ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price

* Chimera ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a magical beast in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

* Cyclops ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a giant in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

* Chaotic Evil, an alignment in the tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons

In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc., the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, published Barker's roleplaying game and setting as a standalone game under the title of The Empire of the Petal Throne ( a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire ), rather than as a " supplement " to the original D & D rules.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the wemic is a humanoid with the upper body of a leonine human and the lower body of a lion.

* The predecessor state of North Kingdom in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

The Flanaess is the eastern part of the continent of Oerik, one of the four continents of the fictional world of Oerth in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

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 ).

* In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, wargs appear as minor enemies.

* Abyss ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a plane of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying games

* " Dis ", the second of the Nine Hells in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game universe ( see Baator )

* In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Nergal is the name of an outcast devil.

There are slash roleplaying based on Dungeons and Dragons, Supernatural, Naruto, World of Warcraft and Dragon Age, among others.

The strictly modern depiction of Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game inspired by earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters, such as Lotan.

TSR created Dragonlance as a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ) roleplaying game in 1982.

* In the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons the thaumaturgist ( sic ) is a prestige class which specifically summons outsiders.

* Herodias is the name of an outcast devil in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ), the first formalized roleplaying game, introduced the use of classes, and many subsequent games adopted variations of the same idea.

Because the world's most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, is part of the fantasy genre, fantasy is also the most played roleplaying genre.

The flumph is a monster found in the fictional world of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

He first learned of roleplaying games as a freshman majoring in engineering at Purdue University, when he happened upon a game of Dungeons & Dragons being played by members of the campus wargaming club.

In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, devils are a powerful group of monsters used as a high-level challenge for players of the game.

Lamia have also appeared in other roleplaying games which were inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, such as Pathfinder.

In the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, a drider is an aberration that was formerly a drow ( dark elf ).

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 ).

The early success of Dungeons & Dragons led to a proliferation of similar game systems.

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 ).

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.

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.