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The Complete Book of Dwarves is a supplemental rulebook for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 1991 by TSR, Inc. [2] [4] It contains a variety of information useful to playing dwarf characters in the game, including information on strongholds, [5] dwarven subraces, [2] character "kits", [2] role-playing, mining, and more.
A dwarf, in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game, is a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for player characters.The idea for the D&D dwarf comes from the dwarves of European mythologies and J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), and has been used in D&D and its predecessor Chainmail since the early 1970s.
Throughout D&D history, up to and including the third edition Player's Handbook, spellcaster gnomes were either illusionists or had illusionist as their favored class. [19] [20] However, in Dungeons & Dragons v.3.5, gnomes' favored class has been changed to bard, as the favored class of illusionist was a subset of the wizard class.
This is the list of Dungeons & Dragons monsters from products published in 1974–1976, an important element of that role-playing game. [1] This list only includes monsters from official Dungeons & Dragons supplements published by TSR, Inc., not those licensed or unlicensed third party products such as video games or unlicensed Dungeons & Dragons manuals.
Races of Faerûn was designed by Eric L. Boyd, James Jacobs, and Matt Forbeck, and published in March 2003.Cover art is by Greg Staples, with interior art by Dennis Calero, Dennis Cramer, Mike Dutton, Wayne England, Jeremy Jarvis, Vince Locke, David Martin, Raven Mimura, Jim Pavelec, Vinod Rams, and Adam Rex.
The various elven subraces are more prominent in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, and Faerûn boasts several major subraces. [2]: 79 They differ physically from typical Dungeons & Dragons elves in that they are as tall as humans (5′9″ on average), or even taller. The exception are the Drow, who are of standard D&D elven height. In ...
Parts of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons were developed through Unearthed Arcana, a public playtest series. [10] In October 2020, 2020: Subclasses, Part 5 featured two new draconic themed subclasses [11] [12] and then in April 2021, 2021: Draconic Options featured new variant Dragonborn subraces and an alternate player version of the Kobold race along with new draconic themed feats and spells.
[14] [17] In August 2022, Wizards of the Coast launched the One D&D public playtest to update Dungeons & Dragons. [18] The first playtest document removed the option of distinct rules for half-elves and half-orcs and replaced it with rules for mixed parentage where a player selects mechanical traits from one parent's race and has the choice of ...