* 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

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.

Drizzt is also included in the Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures game, in the Legend of Drizzt Scenario Pack that also includes Wulfgar and the dragon Icingdeath.

* Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game

Yuan-ti also appear in the Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Game.

* Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, a collectible, skirmish tactical game played with miniature figures

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It was replaced the following year by the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, which made the switch from metal figures to pre-painted plastics, following the trend of competitors such as Mage Knight.

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* In March 2006 a ' Warduke ' miniature figurine was released in the War Drums set of the collectable miniatures game Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures.

Other popular CMGs include Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Game, Halo Actionclix, Star Wars Miniatures, HorrorClix, and Monsterpocalypse.

One such multiheaded aspect was released in the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures expansion set War of the Dragon Queen, with detailed role-playing game statistics in Dragon Magic.

* Nerdly Hobbies, a student-run club which organizes Dungeons & Dragons games, Miniatures Wargames ( like Warhammer 40, 000 ), Magic: The Gathering Tournaments, and various leisure activities.

* Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures Handbook ( Wizards of the Coast, 2003 )

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.

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.

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.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game was released in 2001 from Wizards of the Coast using the d20 rules developed for the third edition of the Dungeons and Dragons game.

Ravenloft was licensed to Arthaus Games for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition and Dungeons and Dragons v. 3. 5 and published by White Wolf Game Studio through the Sword & Sorcery Studios imprint.

* Game System License, a replacement for the Open Game License for the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons

In the deal, Atari's parent company acquired a 10 year exclusive deal to produce video games based on 10 key Hasbro franchises, including Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, Scrabble, Game of Life, Battleship, Clue, Yahtzee, Simon, Risk and Boggle.

Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the collectible card game genre with Magic: The Gathering in the mid-1990s, acquired the popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game by purchasing the failing company TSR, and experienced tremendous success by publishing the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game.

A game titled Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder was released for the Game Boy Advance that uses a " stripped down version of the 3rd edition D & D rules " with " only four basic character classes ".

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 ).

Mage Knight Dungeons won Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game Product 2002 and Mage Knight Dungeons: 3D Dungeon Tiles won Best Game Aid or Accessory 2003.

A special Icewind Dale adventure was featured as the centerpiece at the November 3, 2007, Worldwide Dungeons and Dragons Game Day event, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the creation of Drizzt.

Despite Fudge and other games, the open gaming movement did not gain widespread recognition within the role-playing game industry until 2000, when Wizards of the Coast ( WotC ) re-published the 3rd Edition of their popular Dungeons & Dragons role-playing system as the System Reference Document under the Open Game License.

Wizards of the Coast used the non-open Game System License for the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

* Dungeons & Dragons ( Game )

Gnolls were 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 ).