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A bard is traditionally defined as "a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse." [5] In the fantasy tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, bards are a playable class centered on the idea of accessing magic through some form of artistic expression. The bard first appeared in The Strategic Review Volume 2 ...
The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies originally edited by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books. As she explained in the foreword to the first volume , she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the subgenre of sword and sorcery .
The Mage's Tale (2017): A side-story game set in the Bard's Tale universe, developed by inXile alongside The Bard's Tale IV and released in 2017. Like other games in the series, it is a first-person dungeon crawler, but is built for virtual reality , featuring action-based spellcasting, rather than turn-based combat.
Gord the Rogue is the protagonist in a series of fantasy novels and short stories written by Gary Gygax.Gygax originally wrote the novels and short stories to promote his World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
The Swords of Lankhmar (novel 1968—first part published in 1961, as the novella Scylla’s Daughter, on Fantastic) Swords and Ice Magic (collection 1977) "The Sadness of the Executioner" (1973, in Flashing Swords! #1, ed. Lin Carter) "Beauty and the Beasts" (vignette 1974, in The Book of Fritz Leiber) "Trapped in the Shadowland" (1973 Fantastic)
Marisha Ray as Keyleth of the Air Ashari, a half-elf druid. [18] She is currently undergoing her Aramenté – a quest which acts as the Ashari trial of leadership. [23] Sam Riegel as Scanlan Shorthalt, a gnome bard [18] and raunchy hedonist whose most frequently useful spell is a giant purple floating hand.
Examples of wizard kits include the Academician, the Anagokok, the Amazon Sorceress and the Witch. [ 10 ] The Tome of Magic (1991) introduced elementalists , specialist wizards who focussed on spells related to one of the classical elements of air, earth, fire or water, and wild magic, which promised greater power at the cost of a built-in ...
Exandria Unlimited (ExU) is set in the city of Emon on the continent of Tal'Dorei 30 years after Campaign One and 10 years after Campaign Two. [2] [3] IGN reported, in June 2021, that "Exandria Unlimited will be considered canon within the wider Critical Role story, and 'will affect future environments and timelines across the overall lore of Critical Role.'