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.

The game was inspired by Richard Adams ' fantasy novel Watership Down, and the players were given the opportunity to take on the role of rabbits.

Sandy Petersen, now best known for his work on the Doom computer game, contacted them regarding writing a supplement for their popular fantasy game RuneQuest set in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

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

The New York Times reported that E-Sports Entertainment ESEA League started the first professional fantasy e-sports league in 2004 around the game of Counter-Strike.

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 ).

These were expanded by Gary Gygax, whose additions included a fantasy supplement, before the game was published as Chainmail.

Earthdawn is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993.

The game is similar to fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, but draws more inspiration from games like RuneQuest.

The rules of the game are tightly bound to the underlying magical metaphysics, with the goal of creating a rich, logical fantasy world.

Editor Scott Haring noted ( referring to the FASA edition ) that " Earthdawn had an original, inventive magic system ( no mean trick given the hundreds of fantasy RPGs that came before ), and a game world that gave you the classic " monsters and dungeons " sort of RPG experience, but made sense doing it.

Everway is a fantasy role-playing game first published by Wizards of the Coast under their Alter Ego brand in the mid-1990s.

The game has a fantasy setting of the multiverse type, with many different worlds, some of which differed from generic fantasy.

Post-Tolkien fantasy elves ( popularized by the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game ) tend to be more beautiful and wiser than humans, with sharper senses and perceptions.

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

A fantasy sport ( also known as rotisserie, roto, or owner simulation ) is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport.

Golf is a simple fantasy game to administer and keep tabs on, since you are concerned only with the scores of your team members without anything else to complicate it.

In 1996, STATS, Inc., a major statistical provider to fantasy sports companies, won a court case, along with Motorola, on appeal against the NBA in which the NBA was trying to stop STATS from distributing in game score information via a special wireless device created by Motorola.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

The bill specifically exempts fantasy sports games, educational games, or any online contest that " has an outcome that reflects the relative knowledge of the participants, or their skill at physical reaction or physical manipulation ( but not chance ), and, in the case of a fantasy or simulation sports game, has an outcome that is determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of sporting events, including any non-participant's individual performances in such sporting events ..."

The first edition of Chainmail included a fantasy supplement to the rules.

TSR's medieval era miniatures game, Chainmail ( 1971 ) included a fantasy supplement that led to a new phenomenon that would become much bigger than its parent hobby, role-playing games ( RPGs ).

Besides the Hero System itself, Hero Games is also the publisher of genre books which supplement the generic system: Champions, a role-playing game where players can create and play superheroes ; Fantasy Hero, where characters operate in a fantasy setting ; Star Hero, which uses science fiction settings ; Dark Champions, which simulates various forms of the action-adventure genre ; and many other games.

The 1971 edition includes a fantasy supplement, and is one of the oldest sets of rules for fantasy miniature wargaming, the others including the New England Wargamers Association fantasy wargame called Middle Earth and Tony Bath's Hyboria campaign.

He felt that as a supplement to the D & D game, " the Battle System does what it sets out to do and does it very well ; it may not be as detailed as some fantasy wargame rules, but it is adequate for the requirements of most role-players and can be used quite easily by anyone familiar with D & D or AD & D ".

* Thieves ' World, a shared world fantasy book series

Rob Steggles returned to write The Guild of Thieves, a traditional treasure hunt, while Georgina Sinclair and Michael Bywater wrote the enchanting contemporary fantasy of Jinxter.

The Guild of Thieves, Cutpurses and Allied Trades is distinguished from thieves ' guilds in other fantasy universes by being completely legal.

Thieves ' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.

Thieves, wizards, and jesters, in historical and fantasy literature are often depicted as being skilled in legerdemain, and are often depicted doing standard coin magic.

He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons ' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali ( 1985 ), winner of World Fantasy Award.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978.

In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.

One spin-off of a now-defunct Nomic ( Nomic World ) is the Fantasy Rules Committee, which adds every legal rule submitted by a player to the ruleset until the players run out of ideas, after which all the " fantasy rules " are repealed and the game begins again.

* Origins, a fantasy novel in the Fourth World series by Kate Thompson

* REM World, a fantasy / science fiction novel by Rodman Philbrick

There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.

Written by Basic Role-Playing and RuneQuest author Steve Perrin, Superworld began as one third of the Worlds of Wonder product, which also included a generic fantasy setting, " Magic World ", and a generic science fiction setting, " Future World ", all using the same core Basic Role-Playing rules.

The books have profoundly influenced adult and children's fantasy literature written since World War II.

These novels — including The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End — have been credited as important milestones in the history of fantasy fiction, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, or the future ( as Morris did in News from Nowhere ), Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world.

The 2000 AD series Finn, begun the year after Crisis was cancelled, continued the adventures of the character from Third World War, though with more of a fantasy emphasis.

The Eye of the World ( abbreviated as tEotW or EotW by fans ) is the first book of The Wheel of Time ( WoT ) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.

In 1976, he received the World Science Fiction Society's Gandalf Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing ; he was designated a SFWA Grandmaster in 1979.

Its children's programming featured many cartoons and some live-action series ( particularly fantasy action programs ) including Power Rangers ( currently airing on Nickelodeon ), Bobby's World, X-Men, The Tick, Eerie, Indiana and Goosebumps.

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.

Its swashbuckling flavor is very different from that of the " Known World ", closer in atmosphere to that of the Age of Exploration than the fantasy middle-ages / renaissance tone of the Known World.

Recently, Cavazzano illustrated the epic Disney fantasy comic World of the Dragonlords, which was written by Byron Erickson.

The children's fantasy series " The Spiderwick Chronicles ", by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, includes will o ' the wisps ; they are listed in " Arthur Spiderwick's Guide to the Fantastical World Around You.

* Fourth World, the feudal fantasy land shared by the teenage protagonists of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures