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Gnoll

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A gnoll is a fictional creature in the Dungeons & Dragons game, which resembles a humanoid hyena. [1]

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Aaron Allston

Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 – February 27, 2014) was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels.

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AdventureQuest Worlds

AdventureQuest Worlds (often shortened to AQ Worlds or simply AQW) is a browser-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released by Artix Entertainment in October 2008.

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Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).

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Baldur's Gate

Baldur's Gate is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment.

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Bill Slavicsek

Bill Slavicsek is a game designer who served as the Director of Roleplaying Design and Development at Wizards of the Coast.

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Chris Pramas

Chris Pramas is an American game designer and writer, as well as a founder of Green Ronin Publishing.

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Cube World

Cube World is an open world role-playing video game by Picroma for Microsoft Windows.

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Dale Donovan

Dale A. Donovan is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Dark Empire

Dark Empire is a Star Wars comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics.

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Dave Arneson

David Lance "Dave" Arneson (October 1, 1947Minnesota Department of Health. Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s.

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David Cook (game designer)

David "Zeb" Cook is an American game designer, best known for his work at TSR, Inc., where he was employed for over fifteen years.

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Demon lord (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, demon lords (also known as Abyssal lords in 2E ''AD&D'') are demons who have gained great power and established a position of preeminence among demonkind.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Don Turnbull (game designer)

Donald Joseph Turnbull (2 June 1937 – 5 August 2003) was a journalist, editor, games designer, and an accomplished piano and pinball player.

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Douglas Niles

Douglas Niles (born December 1, 1954, in Brookfield, Wisconsin) is a fantasy author and game designer.

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Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products; Dungeon is the other.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Dungeons & Dragons (1974)

The original Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated D&D) boxed set by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson was published by TSR, Inc. in 1974.

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Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game

The Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game is the name of two companion accessories to the second and third editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set

The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set is a set of rulebooks for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia

The Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia is a 1991 book published by TSR, Inc., as a continuation of the basic edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, which ran concurrently with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fiend Folio

Fiend Folio is any of three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Flind

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the flind is a type of humanoid creature, related to a gnoll.

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Frank Mentzer

Jacob Franklin "Frank" Mentzer III (born 1950) is an American fantasy author and game designer who worked on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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Greg A. Vaughan

Greg A. Vaughan is an American writer who creates material for roleplaying games.

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Heroes of Might and Magic III

Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia (commonly referred to as Heroes of Might & Magic 3, or simply Heroes 3) is a turn-based strategy game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing originally released for Microsoft Windows by the 3DO Company in 1999.

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Humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, humanoid is a type of creature, or "creature type".

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Hyaenodon

Hyaenodon ("hyena-tooth") is the type genus of Hyaenodontidae, a group of extinct carnivorous fossil mammals from Eurasia and North America, with species existing temporally from the Eocene until the middle Miocene, existing for approximately.

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Greek ὕαινα hýaina) are any feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae.

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James Jacobs (game designer)

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James Wyatt (game designer)

James Wyatt (ca. 1968/1969) is a game designer and a former United Methodist minister.

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Jason Bulmahn

Jason Bulmahn is a game designer who has written or contributed to several works.

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Jerusalem artichoke

The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple, or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America, and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota, and south to northern Florida and Texas.

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Jingo (novel)

Jingo is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series.

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John Eric Holmes

John Eric Holmes (February 16, 1930 – March 20, 2010) was an American professor of neurology and writer of non-fiction, fantasy and science fiction.

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Jon Pickens

Jon Pickens is an American game designer and editor who has worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.

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Jonathan Tweet

Jonathan Tweet (born 1965) is an American game designer from Rock Island, Illinois who has been involved in the development of the role-playing games Ars Magica, Everway, Over the Edge, Talislanta, the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons and 13th Age, and the Collectible Miniatures Game Dreamblade.

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Keith Baker (game designer)

Keith Baker (born July 7, 1969) is a game designer and fantasy novel author.

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List of character races in Dungeons & Dragons

A character race is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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List of Dungeons & Dragons monsters (1974–76)

This is the list of Dungeons & Dragons monsters from products published in 1974–1976, an important element of that role-playing game.

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List of Dungeons & Dragons nonhuman deities

This is a list of nonhuman deities of Dungeons & Dragons, defined as those fictional deities worshipped in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) roleplaying game primarily by nonhuman races.

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Lycanthrope (Dungeons & Dragons)

In Dungeons & Dragons, a lycanthrope is a humanoid shapeshifter based on various legends of lycanthropes, werecats, and other such beings.

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Margaret St. Clair

Margaret St.

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Master of Magic

Master of Magic is a single-player, fantasy turn-based strategy 4X genre developed by Simtex and published by MicroProse for MS-DOS in.

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Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

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Might & Magic Heroes VII

Might & Magic Heroes VII (MMH7) is a turn-based strategy game in the Heroes of Might and Magic series.

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Mike Mearls

Michael Mearls is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction.

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Monster Manual

The Monster Manual (MM) is the primary bestiary sourcebook for monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, first published in 1977 by TSR.

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Monster Manual 2

Monster Manual 2 is a supplement to the 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Monster Manual III

Monster Manual III is a manual published in 2004 by Wizards of the Coast, for use with the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Monster Mythology

Monster Mythology is a sourcebook for the second edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

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Monstrous Compendium

The Monstrous Compendium is a series of accessories for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Monte Cook

Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons.

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NetHack

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 with ASCII graphics.

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Nunchaku

is a traditional Okinawan martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks connected at one end by a short chain or rope.

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Orcs Must Die!

Orcs Must Die! is an action-tower defense video game developed and published by Robot Entertainment and Mastertronic.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paizo Publishing

Paizo Publishing is an American publishing company in Redmond, Washington that specializes in game aids and adventures for "the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying game" (Dungeons & Dragons) and its flagship spin-off game and setting, Pathfinder.

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Player's Option: Skills & Powers

Player's Option: Skills & Powers (abbreviated SP, or S&P) is a supplemental sourcebook to the core rules of the second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Rich Burlew

Rich Burlew (born September 1, 1974) is an American author, game designer, and graphic designer.

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Roger E. Moore

Roger E. Moore (born July 11, 1955 in Winchester, Kentucky) is a designer of role-playing games.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Skip Williams

Ralph Williams, almost always referred to as Skip Williams, is an American game designer.

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Slash'EM

Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) is a variant of the roguelike game NetHack that offers extra features, monsters, and items.

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Steven Schend

Steven E. Schend is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR throughout the 1990s.

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Telengard

Telengard is a 1982 role-playing dungeon crawler video game developed by Daniel Lawrence and published by Avalon Hill.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Book of Wonder

The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.

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The Complete Book of Humanoids

The Complete Book of Humanoids is a sourcebook for the second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy adventure role-playing game.

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The Orcs of Thar

The Orcs of Thar is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, written by Bruce Heard and published by TSR in 1988.

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Tom Moldvay

Tom Moldvay (Thomas Steven Moldvay, Nov. 5, 1948 – March 9, 2007) was a game designer and author most notable for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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TSR (company)

TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company and the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a high fantasy real-time strategy video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, and was released in July 2002.

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Warlords Battlecry III

Warlords Battlecry III is a real-time strategy game developed by Infinite Interactive and published in 2004.

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Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games.

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Wolfgang Baur

Wolfgang Baur (born 1968) is an American game designer, best known for his work with Dragon magazine.

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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoll

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