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Half-celestial: Template; sample half-celestial is a unicorn Half-dragon: Template; sample half-dragon is an ogre Half-fiend: Template; sample half-fiend is a medusa Lich: Template; [3] sample lich is an 11th-level human wizard. Emaciated [10] undead spellcaster, [106] a "classic" monster of the game. [10] Lycanthrope
The mindwitness was a sample creature of the half-illithid template using a beholder as the base creature, featured on Wizards of the Coast's website on August 14, 2003. [18] The beholder receives its own chapter in the book Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations (2005).
The pantheons employed in D&D provide a useful framework for creating fantasy characters, as well as governments and even worlds. [1] [2]: 275–292 Dungeons and Dragons may be useful in teaching classical mythology. [3] D&D draws inspiration from a variety of mythologies, but takes great liberty in adapting them for the purpose of the game. [4]
During the April 2023 D&D Creator Summit, the lead rules designer clarified that "One D&D is not supposed to be a new edition or a new 'half edition' similar to the game's '3.5 edition'. Instead, One D&D are revisions to the existing 5th Edition rules while keeping the bulks of those rules intact". [ 68 ]
The Outer Planes were presented for the first time in Volume 1, Number 8 of The Dragon, released July 1977 as part of the Great Wheel of Planes. [1] In the article "Planes: The Concepts of Spatial, Temporal and Physical Relationships in D&D", Gary Gygax mentions that there are 16 Outer Planes and describes the Seven Heavens, the Twin Paradises, and Elysium as "Typical higher planes", Nirvana ...
The aquatic half-elf, the arctic half-elf, the desert half-elf, the fire half-elf, the jungle half-elf, and the half-elf paragon were detailed in Unearthed Arcana (2004). The madborn half-elf of the Eberron setting appeared in Five Nations (2005). The aquatic half-elf appeared again in Stormwrack (2005). The deepwyrm half-drow appeared in ...
Originally inspired by a cheap plastic toy, [4] [2]: 66 the bulette was one of the first monsters specifically created for D&D, [27] and has been included in every edition of D&D, although various aspects of the monster have changed from edition to edition. Author Keith Ammann called bulettes "brutes tailor-made to give your players jump scares ...
The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014. [13] In 2004, D&D remained the best-known, [18] and best-selling, [19] role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide. [3]