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  2. Attribute (role-playing games) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Ravenloft (module) - Wikipedia

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    Ravenloft is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.The American game publishing company TSR, Inc. released it as a standalone adventure booklet in 1983 for use with the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.

  4. Status effect - Wikipedia

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    Increasing the stats of the target. Reducing the stats of the target. Increasing the target's physical strength. Decreasing the target's physical strength. Increasing the target's physical defense. Lowering the target's physical defense. Healing the target's health over time (either for a period of time OR while a status effect is active).

  5. Dungeons & Dragons gameplay - Wikipedia

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    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".

  6. Health (game terminology) - Wikipedia

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    The term "hit points" was coined by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson. [45] [46] [47] While developing the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax based on the latter's previous game Chainmail, Arneson felt that it was more interesting for players to manage small squads than a large army. This also allowed them to ...

  7. Procedural generation - Wikipedia

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    Different models can be generated by changing both deterministic parameters and a random seed. In computing , procedural generation is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated content and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power.

  8. Character sheet - Wikipedia

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    The first role-playing game published, Dungeons & Dragons (1974), did not include a character sheet. The first one ever published was in the Haven Herald fanzine of Stephen Tihor published on May 3, 1975. One month after, another character sheet was released in the APA magazine Alarums and Excursions. [1]

  9. Player's Option: Skills & Powers - Wikipedia

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    Cliff Ramshaw reviewed Player's Option: Skills & Powers for Arcane magazine, rating it a 9 out of 10 overall. [2] He felt that readers might suspect that Skills & Powers would "do nothing but further confuse the situation" regarding the "out of hand" number of character classes available in the game, but suggested that the book "in fact does the opposite". [2]