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  2. Gary Gygax - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Gary Gygax (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ɡ æ k s / GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) [2] was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

  3. D&D Beyond - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Character creation - Wikipedia

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    Character creation (also character generation / character design) is the process of defining a player character in a role-playing game. The result of character creation is a direct characterization that is recorded on a character sheet .

  5. Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) [2] is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. [3] [4] [5] The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). [5] It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997.

  6. Online text-based role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    Although this creates a tension between the avatar of the character and the user, it is a tension that seems to not stand in the way of anything as players often show unselfconsciousness. [ 8 ] Additionally, research on online personalities has been done that could potentially extrapolate to the phenomena of online roleplaying.

  7. Multi-user dungeon - Wikipedia

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    Players typically interact with each other and the world by typing commands that resemble a natural language, as well as using a character typically called an avatar. [ 3 ] Traditional MUDs implement a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters , with players choosing classes in order to gain ...

  8. Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game - Wikipedia

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    Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in the world of the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, [3] which is based on historical South Asian, East Asian and Indigenous North American cultures and martial arts.

  9. Dave Arneson - Wikipedia

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    TSR had agreed to pay Arneson royalties on all D&D products, but when the company came out with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) in 1977, it claimed that AD&D was a significantly different product and so did not pay him royalties for it. [34] In response, Arneson filed the first of five lawsuits against Gygax and TSR in 1979. [35]