* E. Gary Gygax-Designer of several miniatures and board wargames who went on to co-create ( with Dave Arneson ) and publish Dungeons & Dragons.

WBGD, ( Brick Green Dragons ) went on the air in the 1970s and was originally located at Brick Township High School, but was later moved to broadcast from Brick Memorial High School.

In the end, the Seibu Lions finished in second place, defeated Nippon-Ham 2 games to 1, went on to take 3 of 5 games in Fukuoka against the Daiei Hawks and then defeated the Chunichi Dragons in the Japan Series, 4 games to 3, capping off their grueling playoff drive with a well-earned championship.

Then, from March 1997, the Dragons went 51 matches without tasting defeat in a league game, just one of many records they would set in the 1990s.

* On June 28, 2008, the Dragons, making the postseason even after finishing the season 8-8 ( fourth in the National Eastern Division ), went on to defeat the favored Dallas Desperados in the wild card round of the playoffs.

The Dragons under Bennett were successful in winning their first premiership as a joint venture who went on to beat the Roosters 32-8.

He went on to illustrate numerous materials for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ) including interior artwork for manuals and illustrations and covers for adventure modules for the game.

Speculation went awry with the revival, with some speculating that Interplay had once again gotten a Dungeons & Dragons license, others stating that the team would co-develop Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition with Overhaul Games and some that the team would merge with Overhaul's parent company, Beamdog.

Although they had managed to beat Glamorgan at Cardiff once, Warwickshire were not able to achieve victory again, and lost by 5 wickets to the Dragons, who progressed to the finals day, and eventually went out to the 2004 victors, the Leicestershire Foxes.

The club went on to finish the season in sixth position in the table and securing a playoff tie away to Catalans Dragons.

Only moderately successful on its initial broadcast and despite an initially mixed reception, the show has gradually begun to develop something of a cult following, due to having begat the careers of a number of now prominent performers, directors and writers such as Andrew O ' Keefe who started his television career on the show & went on to host Deal or No Deal, Dragons ' Den, The Rich List and Weekend Sunrise.

The Fighters went on to win the Pacific League championship and went through the Climax Series to earn a second consecutive trip to the Japan Series to once again face the Chunichi Dragons.

They went on to become the first third place team to ever win the Climax Series, and faced off with the Chunichi Dragons in the 2010 Japan Series.

In 2000 the Dragon of Dragons Special Prize went to the French documentary maker Raymond Depardon.

Dragons went into the new world with a small nub in the place of the Bone-Mark.

After a poorly made strategic and financial choice of expanding via supermarket distribution, Red Letter Days went into administration on 1 August 2005 ; the remaining assets and goods were bought by fellow Dragons ' Den judges Jones and Paphitis.

In 2011, businessmen Gary Hillman and Faizal Khan went to Dragons ' Den, asking for £ 80, 000.

Following an overhaul of the front office and following the loss of assistant coach, John Torchetti ( former Iguanas head coach ), the Dragons in year two of their existence and being the only hockey team in the city floundered and finally went under.

When the Silver Dragons went into hiding, Nettlebrand killed the alchemist and eventually ate all of Twigleg's brothers, then went hunting on his own.

When the Ak-Baba killed nearly all of the dragons of Deltora, Doran went to each of the remaining dragons and had them swear an oath to go into a deep hibernation until ns went into hibernation, Doran then found out too late that the Dragons were an obstacle to the Shadow Lord's plan to plant the Four Sisters throughout Deltora and by having the dragons go into hibernation, Doran had removed this obstacle once and for all.

In 2008, Weiss went to China to coach the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons in the Chinese Basketball Association.

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.

The DM can either design an adventure on his or her own, or follow one of the many additional pre-made adventures ( previously known as " modules ") that have been published throughout the history of Dungeons & Dragons.

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.

* Dungeon Master, a main character on the Dungeons & Dragons animated TV series

A broad range of peripherals exist for the Dragon 32 / 64, and on top of this there are add-ons such as the Dragon's Claw which give the Dragons access to the BBC Micro's large range of accessories ( a particularly important factor in the UK home market ).

The following year, he and Dave Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons, which expanded on his work on Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child.

In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Basing their work on Arneson's modified version of Chainmail for his Blackmoor campaign, Gygax and Arneson collaborated on The Fantasy Game, the role-playing game that later became Dungeons & Dragons.

Another RPG publisher, TSR, Inc., original publisher of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, included in one of that game's earlier supplements, Deities & Demigods ( originally published in 1980 and later renamed to " Legends & Lore "), a section on the Cthulhu Mythos ; TSR, Inc. later agreed to remove this section at Chaosium's request.

Perhaps the most common approach to game design in MUDs is to loosely emulate the structure of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign focused more on fighting and advancement than role-playing.

In role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons or Final Fantasy, a player typically creates or takes on the identity of a character that may have nothing in common with the player.

As early as 1974, the same year as the release of Dungeons & Dragons, unlicensed versions of it were developed on mainframe university systems under titles such as dnd and Dungeon.

Single player role-playing video games form a loosely defined genre of computer and console games with origins in role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, on which they base much of their terminology, settings, and game mechanics.

* Saint George and the Dragon links and pictures ( more than 125 ), from Dragons in Art and on the Web

Both T & T's simplicity and its reliance on use of six-sided dice ( as compared to the various polyhedral dice used by Dungeons and Dragons ) contributed to its success in this format.

* Lennard, John, Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction ( Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007 )

One of the company's first great successes was Eye of the Beholder ( 1990 ), a real-time role-playing video game based on the Dungeons & Dragons license, developed for SSI.

The Dragons missed out on a victory as the first ever French club to make it to a Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in 2007, losing 30-8 against St. Helens in front of 84, 000 people.

With the release of the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, RPGA — the organized play division of WotC — announced a new massively shared living campaign, Living Greyhawk, modeled on a 2nd edition campaign called Living City.

In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as " Orth " ( long " o ") or " oyth ", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located.