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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 ...
A free corresponding player's guide, Elemental Evil Player's Companion, was released earlier as a PDF on March 10, 2015. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The spells and the genasi race from the Elemental Evil Player’s Companion are reprinted in the adventure's appendices, though the goliath and aarakocra races and the deep gnome subrace for gnomes are not ...
Dark Sun is an original Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign setting set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic desert world of Athas. [1] [2] Dark Sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genre-bending take on traditional fantasy role-playing. [3]
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]
Faerûn (/ f eɪ ˈ r uː n / fay-ROON) is a fictional continent and the primary setting of the Dungeons & Dragons world of Forgotten Realms.It is described in detail in several editions of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (first published in 1987 by TSR, Inc.) with the most recent being the 5th edition from Wizards of the Coast, [1] [2] and various locales and aspects are described in ...
Volothamp Geddarm sets the adventurers off on an urban-themed treasure hunt for a massive hoard of gold within the city of Waterdeep. [1] [3] [4] Depending on the Dungeon Master's choice of season, the adventurers will ultimately face off with one or more of the following villains: Manshoon the Manyfaced, Jarlaxle Baenre, Xanathar the Beholder, and/or the Cassalanters (Lord Victoro and Lady ...
[16] [19] In August 2022, Wizards of the Coast launched the One D&D public playtest to update Dungeons & Dragons. [20] 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 ...
In the article "Planes: The Concepts of Spatial, Temporal and Physical Relationships in D&D", Gary Gygax mentions that there are 16 Outer Planes. [6] The "Basic edition" of D&D had a separate, though similar, cosmology from that of its contemporary AD&D game, which is a more open planar system that is less regulated than that of its counterpart.