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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is a boxed set for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.The boxed set includes three sourcebooks: the Astral Adventurer's Guide (a Spelljammer campaign setting guide), the Light of Xaryxis (an adventure module), and Boo's Astral Menagerie (a bestiary of Wildspace and Astral Sea creatures).
Spelljammer is a campaign setting originally published for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastic (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment. Subsequent editions have included Spelljammer content; a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition setting update was released on August 16, 2022.
Several new sea-affiliated races, the darfellan, the aventi are introduced. Old races, such as the hadozee (a yazarian-like race from the Spelljammer setting) and Sea elves are detailed for use as player characters. There are new prestige classes, new magic items, new spells, new monsters, and various other rules additions.
Dungeons & Dragons used six attributes (there were brief attempts to add a seventh, Comeliness, in Unearthed Arcana and Dragon magazine, but this was short-lived [4]). The six attributes used in D&D are: "Physical" statistics. Strength - measuring intimidation, physical power and carrying capacity; Constitution - measuring endurance, stamina ...
Chris Van Dyke, in Race in Dungeons & Dragons, wrote: "humans are the normative race, and given the Anglo-centric depiction of human culture in the game, humans can be interpreted as representing 'white people.' They are 'normal', while all other races, whether good or evil, are to some extent 'exotic,' and otherized".
This is a list of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd-edition monsters, an important element of that role-playing game. [1] [2] [3] This list only includes monsters from official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition supplements published by TSR, Inc. or Wizards of the Coast, not licensed or unlicensed third-party products such as video games or unlicensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition ...
Dungeons & Dragons, starting with AD&D 1st Edition and continuing to the current 5th Edition, has many skills that characters may train in. [29] [30] [5] In 1st and 2nd editions, these were broken down into "weapon proficiencies" and "non-weapon proficiencies". [31] [32] In 3rd Edition they are all simply referred to as "skills".
Wyatt acknowledged that "The Complete Book of Humanoids broke a long-standing barrier in the AD&D game by allowing players to make characters of nearly any humanoid race," and noted that the book carefully balanced the advantages a race might have such as great physical strength against significant disadvantages, particularly prejudice and ...