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The word dhampir is an Albanian word which in turn is borrowed from Serbo-Croat vampír or its Bulgarian equivalent. [2] The shift v > dh is a feature of Gheg Albanian, [3] [4] but it could also have been encouraged by a folk etymology, connecting it with the Albanian words dhamb 'tooth' and pir 'to drink'.
Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.Commonly referred to by players and game designers as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. [1]
The original Dungeons & Dragons, now referred to as OD&D, [88] is a small box set of three booklets published in 1974. With a very limited production budget of only $2000—with only $100 budgeted for artwork [ 89 ] : 26 —it is amateurish in production and assumes the player is familiar with wargaming.
In 3.5, tieflings use human names until they seek to differentiate themselves from their parents, after which they usually take fiendish "names" of Infernal or Abyssal origin that sound menacing. In 4.0 onwards, tieflings usually take an ancestral Infernal name, although some young tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, choose a name ...
The first Dungeons & Dragons licensed games were made by Mattel for the Intellivision.The contract required some variations to the normal Intellivision title screens with the name being capitalized and the addition of the word 'cartridge'.
The original D&D was published as a box set in 1974 and features only a handful of the elements for which the game is known today: just three character classes (fighting-man, magic-user, and cleric); four races (human, dwarf, elf, and hobbit); only a few monsters; only three alignments (lawful, neutral, and chaotic).
Deities in Dungeons & Dragons have a great variety of moral outlooks and motives, [8] which have to be considered by cleric player characters. [9] In some editions of the game, deities were given statistics, allowing mighty player characters to kill a god like a powerful monster.
D&D Beyond (DDB) is the official digital toolset and game companion for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition. [1] [2] DDB hosts online versions of the official Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition books, including rulebooks, adventures, and other supplements; it also provides digital tools like a character builder and digital character sheet, monster and spell listings that can be sorted and filtered ...