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The Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Hwin, from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis; Jim, cab-horse from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum; Joey, from War Horse by Michael Morpurgo; Kholstomer, from the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy
Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.Commonly referred to by players and game designers as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. [1]
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.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Wizards of the Coast: 1997-1998 The setting was released in the form of three books, as part of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Odyssey line. Uresia: anime fantasy Planet of Uresia Systemless, Big Eyes, Small Mouth: Guardians of Order: 2003-2012 Written by S. John Ross. Multiverse (Magic: The Gathering) Sword and ...
Creatures from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that come from or are based on real-life folklore or mythology. Note that many of these although taking the name from the mythological version, have very little in common with them, instead being based on modern fantasy fiction.
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. [1] [2] Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year [3] —the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972 ...
The primary races of the Birthright setting are typical for Dungeons and Dragons based game-worlds: Humans, Elves and Half-Elves, Halflings, Dwarves. However, there are some differences between the races presented in Birthright and those in other campaign settings or in the core rules. Also, non-human races do not have the variations that they ...