Many of these seem closer in tone to the pulp adventures of Indiana Jones than H. P. Lovecraft, but they are nonetheless beloved by many gamers.

Many optional accessories are available to enhance the game, such as expansion rulebooks, pre-designed adventures and various campaign settings.

The locations where these adventures occur, such as a city, country, planet or an entire fictional universe, are also sometimes called ' campaigns ' but are more correctly referred to as ' worlds ' or ' campaign settings '.

After Alonso Quixano dies, the author emphasizes that there are no more adventures to relate, and that any further books about Don Quixote would be spurious.

Similarly, many of both Sancho's adventures in Part II and proverbs throughout are taken from popular Spanish and Italian folklore.

Traditional myth, with its exotic settings, heroic adventures and epic battles, offered potential for romantic melodrama as well as for political comments on a war theme, so that his plays are an extraordinary mix of elements.

Currently several versions of the rules are on line ( complete and summary versions in HTML and PDF, and a German translation in PDF ), along with a sample adventure set in a Victorian Channel Tunnel, plus eleven game collections ( source material plus background worldbook, adventures, etc.

Within Dragon Pass ( where most players set their adventures ), goats are generally considered ritually unclean animals ( perhaps because of their association with Broo ) and are rarely herded.

Infocom games are text adventures where users direct the action by entering short strings of words to give commands when prompted.

Among his written works there are Siete años enterrado vivo en una de las mazmorras de Gomezuela: Horripilante relato de un resucitado ( 1932 ) and Mis prisiones, mis destierros y mi vida ( 1929 ) which talk about his many adventures while living his life as an adventurer, activist and vagabond, as well as his thought and the many times he was imprisoned in different countries.

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

He took his place as the leader of his band and numerous tales are told of their adventures.

The adventures of this period are told in the two books The Silent World ( 1953, by Cousteau and Dumas ) and Plongées sans câble ( 1954, by Philippe Tailliez ).

The prophecies are interspersed with episodes relating Merlin's deeds and with various Arthurian adventures in which Merlin does not appear at all.

The Marvel of this reality publishes comics that adapt the actual adventures of the superheroes ( except for details not known to the public, like their secret identities ); many of these are licensed with the permission of the heroes themselves, who customarily donate their share of profits to charity.

Books 9 through 12, wherein Odysseus recalls his adventures for his Phaeacian hosts, are collectively referred to as the Apologoi: Odysseus ' " stories ".

Nevertheless, the adventures are still more local than national in scope: while King Richard's participation in the Crusades is mentioned in passing, Robin takes no stand against Prince John, and plays no part in raising the ransom to free Richard.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

The novels themselves are written as Roger's running monologues during his adventures.

The history section was heavily redone and the main non-player character's names are changed, but many of the area descriptions and the adventures remain essentially unchanged.

The 2008 competition was described as containing " some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures / interactive fiction.

In other words, it was Harun's reading of the book that provoked the adventures described in the book to take place.

He described his adventures and the Wager Mutiny in The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron ( 1768 ), which sold well enough to appear in several editions.

The Dalarna adventures of Gustav that could be described as a part of the national heritage of Sweden, can therefore not be verified in a satisfying way.

He described his new method as " unknown adventures in an unknown space ," free from " direct association with any particular, and the passion of organism.

" Nintendo Power described Sonic Mega Collection as " the ultimate compilation of Sonic adventures.

The quest, in the form of the Hero's Journey, plays a central roles in the Monomyth described by Joseph Campbell ; the hero sets forth from the world of common day into a land of adventures, tests, and magical rewards.

In other words, it was Harun's reading of the book that provoked the adventures described in the book to take place.

The comic depicts many of the adventures described within KotDT ; however, K. ILL shows the player characters ' actions rather than those of the players behind them.

In the 1930s her adventures were once again described by her descendant, Antoine Philippe Rodolphe, 4th count d ' Ornano in a book entitled ' Marie Walewska, " l ' ėpouse polonaise de Napolėon "'.

Her brother Hal recovers the family title of Earl of Pontisbright as a result of the adventures described in Sweet Danger and Amanda then becomes Lady Amanda, as the sister of an Earl.

Upon publication of the first book edition it was reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement in its edition of January 26, 1922 which described it as " a whirl of thrilling adventures ".

Many children grew up with his book " The polar pilot " that has described not only his path to aviation, but also the further adventures of his plane in revolutionary Spain, as well as the description of the Cheliuskin rescue and his participation in the War.

Étienne Cabet ( 1788 – 1856 ) who was influenced by Robert Owen, published a book in 1840 entitled Travel and adventures of Lord William Carisdall in Icaria in which he described an ideal communalist society.

The travel literature of the period is too large for detailed mention: Persia, Syria, Abyssinia, Florida, and Brazil were visited and described and Father Lucena compiled a classic life of St. Francis Xavier, but the " Peregrination " of Mendes Pinto, a typical Conquistador, is worth all the story books put together for its extrãordinary adventures told in a vigorous style, full of colour and life, while the " Historia Tragico-Maritima ", a record of notable shipwrecks between 1552 and 1604, has good specimens of simple anonymous narrative.

He has been a member of Earth's space fleet for 15 years and was a soldier in at least one previous large-scale war ( in the novels, these adventures of Cliff and his crew were described, too ).

Some of the longer stories, such as Le prince des Galaxiens ( The Galaxian Prince ) or L ' oeuf astral ( The Astral Egg ) could be described as actual Galaxian adventures with Khena and the Scrameustache appearing simply because they were the stars of the series.

Realistic portrayal of children: Nesbit was known for her well-drawn child characters, described in the Norton's Anthology of Children's Literature as " believable middle-class children who experience a series of adventures in unforeseen circumstances ” ( Zipes, et al .).

We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in imagination, and normally out of his depth — the best of a bad lot who had reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity.

These were described by the communications officer, Ranger Rogers, as the adventures of Captain Video's " undercover agents " on Earth.

She is described to be a confident, cool, friendly, optimistic, resourceful, and loyal friend who loves having fun, adventures, and most importantly, friends.

He called the two dungeon adventures " first-class ", and described " Halls of the Beast-Tamers " as a " classic AD & D game dungeon with lots of weirdness and magical flourishes " which " provides a solid rationale for the ever-popular monster-motel adventure ", although he felt that it may be too tough for novices.

Although all of Eager's other novels for children depict what are clearly adventures in supernatural magic, Magic or Not and its sequel The Well-Wishers are different in tone from his other books, because all of the " magical " events in these two novels are described ambiguously, with clues to permit possible non-supernatural explanations.

He was described as a world-weary warrior and survivor of many adventures who had changed his worldview from neutral to evil to satisfy his morbid tastes.