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The rogue has the ability to deliver a sneak attack whenever an opponent loses its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (i.e., when the opponent is flat-footed or flanked or cannot see the rogue). The rogue can then take advantage of this momentary weakness to strike at a vital part of the anatomy (provided the creature has a discernible enough ...
The druid is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. [1] [2] Druids wield nature-themed magic. Druids cast spells like clerics, but unlike them do not have special powers against undead and, in some editions, cannot use metal armor. Druids have a unique ability that allows them to change into various ...
Rogue screenshot CAR. The player character is an adventurer. The game starts at the uppermost level of an unmapped dungeon with myriad monsters and treasures. The goal is to fight a way to the bottom level, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor ("Rodney" spelled backwards), then ascend to the surface. [1]
The kenku most recently appears in the fifth edition in the Monster Manual, [13] the Dungeon Master's Guide (2014), [14] and as a playable race in Volo's Guide to Monsters. [5] [15] In these sourcebooks, kenku are rendered incapable of making sounds or developing ideas of their own, cursing them to steal everything from words to goods from others.
Lineage (Korean: 리니지), also known as Lineage: The Blood Pledge in Western markets, [2] is a medieval fantasy, massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in Korea and the United States in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCSoft, based on a Korean comic book series of the same name.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids (commonly known as mind flayers) are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, they live in the moist caverns and cities of the enormous Underdark.
[2] [3] [4]: 79 Michael J. Tresca, in the book The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games (2014), stated that prior to Tolkien's work, "the most modern depiction of elves that would influence the fantasy genre was Lord Dunsany's novel The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)" which "firmly establishes that elves can breed with humans (more echoes ...
Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.