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Lords of Darkness is a collection presenting ten short adventure scenarios that take place in the Forgotten Realms, each of them focusing on undead monsters such as skeletons, ghouls, wights, shadows, mummies, vampires, and ghosts; the book also contains suggestions on role-playing undead and a section called "A Mundane Guide to Wards vs. Undead, Spirits, and Other Entities". [1]
Beginning with the first edition in 1974, a catalog of game monsters was included along with other game manuals, first called Monsters & Treasure and now called the Monster Manual. As an essential part of Dungeons & Dragons , many of its monsters have become iconic and recognizable even outside D&D , becoming influential in video games ...
Undead creatures have been part of the game since its earliest forms. The skeleton and the zombie, for example, were among the first monsters introduced in the earliest edition of the game, in the Dungeons & Dragons "white box" set (1974), where both were described as acting under the instructions of their motivator, usually a magic-user or ...
While a character rarely rolls a check using just an ability score, these scores, and the modifiers they create, affect nearly every aspect of a character's skills and abilities." [2] In some games, such as older versions of Dungeons & Dragons the attribute is used on its own to determine outcomes, whereas in many games, beginning with Bunnies ...
Corellon is included as a deity in the 5th Edition Player's Handbook (2014) where they are described as "androgynous". [1] The sourcebook Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018) has a chapter on elves which includes their origin story as creations of Corellon. [16] [17] This sourcebook also introduces the "blessed of Corellon" mechanic.
Ezmerelda d'Avenir is a Vistana monster hunter introduced in the 5th Edition adventure module Curse of Strahd (2016). As a child, her family kidnapped Rudolph van Richten's son and turned him over to a vampire. d'Avenir was "deeply moved" by van Richten's mercy on her family and as a teenager ran away to seek him out.
Ironclaw is a series of tabletop role-playing games created by Jason Holmgren of Sanguine Games, this series features anthropomorphic characters in a setting inspired by class and religious conflicts during the Italian Renaissance. Additionally, Jadeclaw is a related game that is set in a concurrent East Asian setting.
Priest's Spell Compendium Volume Three was reviewed by the online version of Pyramid on February 18, 2000. [1] The reviewer felt that this volume "wouldn't need a review" if it were merely the last volume in the series, but the appendices "make this a must have volume for anyone who ever wants to play a cleric or specialty priest".