* 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

* Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1977, 1981, 1983 ).

Other examples are GORE ( the Basic Roleplaying System i. e., the rules used in RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu ), Labyrinth Lord ( based on Basic Dungeons & Dragons ), Swords & Wizardry ( based on Dungeons & Dragons c. 1974 ), and Dark Dungeons ( based on Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia ).

The white dragon, black dragon, red dragon and brass dragon reappeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1977 ).

The six dragons from the 1974 boxed set appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook ( 1981 ), and again in the 1983 version of the Basic Set ( 1983 ).

This edition of the D & D game included its own version of the gnoll, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1977, 1981, 1983 ).

The thoul appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1981, 1983 ), and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia ( 1991 ),

Designed to be used with the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, it was included in the 1979 – 1982 editions of the Basic Set.

It is designed for use with the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set.

The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets ; modules AC2 Combat Shield and Mini-adventure, AC3 The Kidnapping of Princess Arelina, B1 In Search of the Unknown, The Keep on the Borderlands, and M1 Blizzard Pass ; Player Character Record Sheets ; and dice ; the set was limited to a thousand copies, and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17.

This edition of the D & D game included its own version of the displacer beast, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1977 ), and Expert Set ( 1981 & 1983 ), and was also later featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Game set ( 1991 ), the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia ( 1991 ), the Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game set ( 1994 ), and the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game set ( 1999 ).

David C. Sutherland III created the modern-day wemic for a game product called Monster Cards Set 3, a first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons supplement released in 1982 ; with the artwork for the original depiction being undertaken by Jim Roslof.

* Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Limited Edition Collector's Set ( 1990, DOS, C64, Amiga, SSI )-a compilation of many early AD & D titles, including several Gold Box games.

Maztica was detailed for 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons in the Maztica Campaign Set by Douglas Niles, and in the Forgotten Realms novels of the Maztica Trilogy — Ironhelm, Viperhand and Feathered Dragon — also by Douglas Niles.

This edition of the D & D game included its own version of the doppelganger, spelled doppleganger, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set ( 1977, 1981, 1983 ).

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game boots of speed are a variation of the famous magical boots.

The d20 variant is based on the Big Eyes, Small Mouth game system which closely resembles a point based variation of Dungeons & Dragons.

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.

The original Dungeons & Dragons set.

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** Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons, an expansion pack for the home computer ports of the original Gauntlet

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.

Marc Miller, one of the original designers of the Traveller RPG for Game Designer's Workshop, said that the idea for creating Traveller came about when he said " I want to do Dungeons & Dragons in space.

The core rules were available as three booklets in a boxed set ( compare to the original Dungeons & Dragons format ).

* TSR, Inc. ( originally Tactical Studies Rules ), the original publisher of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

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.

There is still an area of her original castle in the basement of the House ( the Dungeons ), which is on view to visitors.

The year 1999 marked twenty five years since the publication of the original Dungeons & Dragons rules, and WotC sought to lure older gamers back to Greyhawk by producing a series of nostalgia-tinged Return to ... adventures that evoked the best-known Greyhawk modules from 20 years before, under the banner 25th Anniversary of D & D:

However, in 2003, Gygax announced that he was working with Rob Kuntz to publish the original castle and city in six volumes, although the project would use the rules for Castles and Crusades rather than Dungeons & Dragons.

In October 2006, Wizards of the Coast released Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, a hardcover version of the original 1st edition adventure updated for the Dungeons & Dragons version 3. 5 rule set.

Planescape is an expansion of ideas presented in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide ( First Edition ) and the original Manual of the Planes.

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 ).

Mithril metal is also frequently mentioned in many of the original 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game books and adventure modules written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR.

The reviewer was critical that Pool of Radiance was not original in its presentation and that the colors were a little drab, but concluded that the game is " classic Dungeons & Dragons which SSI have recreated excellently ".

Many established fantasy writers have also derided Dungeons and Dragons and the fantasy fiction it has inspired due to its influencing new writers toward reading the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual instead of studying the original literature and mythology from which modern fantasy literature has sprung.

) The name comes from an item in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign played by the original members of id Software, which Romero co-founded.

KenzerCo has published an actual version of the fictional HackMaster role playing game featured in the comic, which is based on the original version of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and uses the same system under license.

Among many initiatives in the early years of AOL, Case personally championed many innovative online interactive titles and games, including graphical chat environments Habitat ( 1986 ) and Club Caribe ( 1989 ), the first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed ( 1988 ), Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game ( 1989 ), and the original Dungeons & Dragons title Neverwinter Nights, the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ( MMORPG ) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text ( 1991 ).