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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). The game is currently published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system. D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and, by extension, the entire role-playing game industry.
As of 2006, Dungeons & Dragons remains the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales. Dungeons & Dragons is known beyond the game for other D&D-branded products (such as the popular video games Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate, as well as an animated TV series), references in popular culture and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism and suicide. Template:/box-footer
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, created by game designer Ed Greenwood. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as simply "The Realms", it is one of the most popular D&D settings, brought about largely due to the success of novels by authors such as R. A. Salvatore and numerous role-playing video games such as Pool of Radiance, Baldur's Gate, and Neverwinter Nights.
According to the setting's creators, the "Forgotten Realms" is the name of an imaginary fantasy world that exists somewhere beyond our own world. It is described as a world of strange lands, dangerous creatures, and mighty deities, where magic and seemingly supernatural phenomena are quite real. Ostensibly, once upon a time, our Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were somehow more closely connected. As time passed, we, the inhabitants of planet Earth, have mostly forgotten about the existence of that other world -- hence the term "Forgotten Realms". On the original Forgotten Realms logo, the little runic letters in it read "Herein lie the lost lands". This is another allusion to this connection between the two worlds.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Ravenloft is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, published by TSR in 1983 for use with the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. The module, or pre-packaged adventure booklet, was written by husband–wife duo Tracy and Laura Hickman, with art by Clyde Caldwell and maps by David Sutherland III. The plot of Ravenloft centers around the villain Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire who draws power from the isolated land he rules.
Ravenloft was ranked as the second greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all time on the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons game, behind Queen of the Spiders. Ravenloft inspired a sequel, a gamebook adaptation and an entire campaign setting, which in turn had many spin offs, including a module for the Neverwinter Nights role-playing video game. The original Ravenloft adventure itself has been revised and republished several times.
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- May 19, 2009: Wizards of the Coast announces that D&D Insider will contain over 100 pages of finished previews from the Player's Handbook 3.
- April 10, 2009: Dave Arneson, co-creator of the game, died on April 7, 2009, from cancer. Wizards of the Coast's news.
- April 6, 2009: Wizards of the Coast files three lawsuits for copyright infringement of their downloadable Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition PDF books.
- March 25, 2009: Paizo Publishing announces the winner or RPG Superstar 2009, Neil Spicer, who will write the Pathfinder Module Realm of the Fellnight Queen, to be released in January 2010.
- March 17, 2009: The 224-page Player's Handbook 2 has been released, containing new races, new classes, and a new power source (Primal), among other additional rules.
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- General: Dungeons & Dragons controversies, Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture, Dungeons & Dragons related products, Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Sources and influences on the development of Dungeons & Dragons
- Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Elminster, Gord the Rogue, Lady of Pain, Lord Soth, Mordenkainen, Raistlin Majere, Strahd von Zarovich
- Gameplay: Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons), Character class (Dungeons & Dragons), Character race (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Monsters: Beholder, Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons), Drow (Dungeons & Dragons), Illithid
- People: Dave Arneson, David "Zeb" Cook, Ed Greenwood, Gary Gygax, Tracy Hickman, R.A. Salvatore, Margaret Weis
- Rulebooks: Draconomicon, Dragon (magazine), Dungeon (magazine), Dungeons & Dragons (1974), Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, Dungeon Master's Guide, Fiend Folio, Manual of the Planes, Monster Manual, Player's Handbook
- Settings: Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Spelljammer, Ravenloft
- Video games: Baldur's Gate (series), dnd (computer game), Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Eye of the Beholder (video game), Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Planescape: Torment, Pool of Radiance
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