Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. ^[1]

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A. E. van Vogt

Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was an American science fiction writer.

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A. Merritt

Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction.

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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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Actual play

Actual play, also called live play, is a genre of podcast or web show in which people play tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) for an audience.

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Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an adventure or module is a guide for managing player knowledge and activities within a specific scenario.

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.

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Against the Giants

Against the Giants is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR in 1981 for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures.

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Amazon Freevee (stylized as freevee and fv), also shortened as Freevee, formerly known as IMDb Freedive and IMDb TV, and sometimes spelled FV, is an American ad-supported video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service owned by Amazon, with original and licensed programming.

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Ares (magazine)

Ares was an American science fiction wargame magazine published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI), and then TSR, Inc., between 1980 and 1984.

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Arithmetic

Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Backward compatibility

In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.

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Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3 is a 2023 role-playing video game developed and published by Larian Studios. Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate 3 are Wizards of the Coast games.

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Balrog

A Balrog is a powerful demonic monster in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

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Battlesystem

Battlesystem is a tabletop miniature wargame designed as a supplement for use with the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Dungeons & Dragons and Battlesystem are origins Award winners.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Birthright (campaign setting)

Birthright is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting that was first released by TSR in 1995. Dungeons & Dragons and Birthright (campaign setting) are origins Award winners.

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Black Destroyer

"Black Destroyer" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939.

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Black Gate (magazine)

Black Gate is a fantasy magazine published by New Epoch Press.

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Blackmoor (supplement)

Blackmoor is a supplementary rulebook (product designation TSR 2004) of the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game written by Dave Arneson (with a foreword by Gary Gygax).

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Braunstein (game)

Braunstein is an experimental game and game genre introduced by David Wesely, a member of the Midwest Military Simulation Association, in the late 1960s, and originally played in the Twin Cities.

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Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) are American role-playing games and origins Award winners.

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Campaign (gaming)

A campaign is a continuing storyline in a game.

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Campaign setting

A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign.

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Chainmail (game)

Chainmail is a medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren.

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Champions (role-playing game)

Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate a superhero comic book world. Dungeons & Dragons and Champions (role-playing game) are origins Award winners.

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Chaosium

Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975.

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Character class (Dungeons & Dragons)

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

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Character creation

Character creation (also character generation / character design) is the process of defining a player character in a role-playing game.

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Character sheet

A character sheet is a record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session.

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Chivalry & Sorcery

Chivalry & Sorcery is a fantasy role-playing game (FRP) first published in 1977 by Fantasy Games Unlimited. Dungeons & Dragons and Chivalry & Sorcery are origins Award winners.

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Chris Perkins (game designer)

Christopher Perkins (born February 29, 1968) is a Canadian American game designer and editor who is known for his work on Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, currently as the senior story designer.

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Citadel Miniatures

Citadel Miniatures Limited is a company which produces metal, resin and plastic miniature figures for tabletop wargames such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000.

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City State of the Invincible Overlord

City State of the Invincible Overlord is a fantasy role-playing game supplement originally published by Judges Guild in 1976.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Comic Book Resources

CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Creative Campaigning

Creative Campaigning is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 1993.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".

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Critical Role

Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons.

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D&D Beyond

D&D Beyond (DDB) is the official digital toolset and game companion for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition.

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D&D Championship Series

The D&D Championship Series was a yearly Dungeons & Dragons championship run at Gen Con.

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D20 System

The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast, originally developed for the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons & Dragons and d20 System are Wizards of the Coast games.

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Daikatana

Daikatana is a first-person shooter game developed by Ion Storm.

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Dark Sun

Dark Sun is an original Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign setting set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic desert world of Athas.

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Dave Arneson

David Lance Arneson (October 1, 1947 – 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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David M. Ewalt

David M. Ewalt (born 1976) is an American journalist and author.

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David Noonan (game designer)

David Noonan is an author of several products and articles for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast.

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David Wesely

David Wesely (born 1945) is an American wargamer, board game designer, and video game developer.

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David X. Cohen

David Samuel Cohen (born July 13, 1966), better known as David X. Cohen, is an American television writer.

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Deborah Ann Woll

Deborah Ann Woll (born February 7, 1985) is an American actress.

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Derivative work

In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work (the underlying work).

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Devil (Dungeons & Dragons)

A devil, also referred to as a baatezu, is a group of fictional creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) roleplaying game typically presented as formidable opponents for advanced players.

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Dice notation

Dice notation (also known as dice algebra, common dice notation, RPG dice notation, and several other titles) is a system to represent different combinations of dice in wargames and tabletop role-playing games using simple algebra-like notation such as d8+2.

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Dicing with Dragons

Dicing with Dragons is a book written by Ian Livingstone and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1982 that explains what role-playing games are.

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Dimension 20

Dimension 20 is a tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout, and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.

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Diorama

A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional model either full-sized or miniature.

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Don't Give Up the Ship (game)

Don't Give Up the Ship is a set of rules for conducting Napoleonic era naval wargames.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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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, along with Dungeon. Dungeons & Dragons and Dragon (magazine) are origins Award winners.

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Dragonlance

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of fantasy novels.

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Dungeon (magazine)

Dungeon (originally published as Dungeon: Adventures for TSR Role-Playing Games) was one of the two official magazines targeting consumers of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products; Dragon was the other. Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeon (magazine) are origins Award winners.

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Dungeon Master

In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.

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Dungeon Master's Guide

The Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG or DM's Guide; in some printings, the Dungeon Masters Guide or Dungeon Master Guide) is a book of rules for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

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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 (album)

Dungeons & Dragons is a studio album by the American musical group Midnight Syndicate, released August 12, 2003, by Entity Productions.

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Dungeons & Dragons (film series)

Dungeons & Dragons is an action-adventure fantasy film series based on the role-playing game of the same name currently owned by Wizards of the Coast.

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Dungeons & Dragons (IDW Publishing)

Dungeons & Dragons is a series of comic books published by IDW Publishing, under the license from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, based on the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)

Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons 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 campaign settings

The flexibility of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game rules means that Dungeon Masters (DM) are free to create their own fantasy campaign settings.

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Dungeons & Dragons Companion Set

The Dungeons & Dragons Companion Set is an expansion boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons controversies

The role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), which receives significant attention in the media and in popular culture, has been the subject of numerous controversies.

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Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set

The Expert Set is an expansion boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons Immortals Rules

Dungeons & Dragons Immortals Rules, written by Frank Mentzer, is a boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game first published by TSR in 1986 as an expansion to the Basic Set.

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Dungeons & Dragons in other media

The Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game has been adapted into many related products, including magazines, films and video games.

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Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1974.

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Dungeons & Dragons Master Rules

Dungeons & Dragons Master Rules is an expansion boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons novels

Dungeons & Dragons novels are works of fantasy fiction that are based upon campaign settings released for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons retro-clones

Dungeons & Dragons retro-clones are fantasy role-playing games that emulate earlier editions of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) no longer supported by Wizards of the Coast.

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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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Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set

The Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is a category of companion accessories across multiple editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a 2023 American fantasy heist film directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Gilio from a story by Chris McKay and Gilio.

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Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)

A dwarf, in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game, is a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for player characters.

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Dying Earth

Dying Earth is a speculative fiction series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984.

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Eberron

Eberron is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. Dungeons & Dragons and Eberron are origins Award winners.

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Ed Stark

Ed Stark is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

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Editions of Dungeons & Dragons

Several different editions of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game have been produced since 1974.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)

The elf is a humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, one of the primary races available for player characters, and play a central role in the narratives of many setting worlds of the game.

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Empire of the Petal Throne

Empire of the Petal Throne is a fantasy role-playing game designed by M. A. R. Barker, based on his Tékumel fictional universe. Dungeons & Dragons and Empire of the Petal Throne are role-playing games introduced in 1974.

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Ent

Ents are a species of sentient beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth who closely resemble trees; their leader is Treebeard of Fangorn forest.

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Eric Goldberg (game designer)

Eric Goldberg is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.

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Experience point

An experience point (often abbreviated as exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in some tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's life experience and progression through the game.

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Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount is a sourcebook that details the continent of Wildemount from the Critical Role campaign setting for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Fandom (website)

Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.

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Fantasy Grounds

Fantasy Grounds is a virtual tabletop application, which contains a set of tools to assist players of tabletop role-playing games playing either in person or remotely.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Fictional universe

A fictional universe (also called an imagined universe or a constructed universe) is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative work or work of art, most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Flaming sword (mythology)

A flaming sword is a sword which is glowing with a flame which is produced by some supernatural power.

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Fletcher Pratt

Murray Fletcher Pratt (25 April 1897 – 10 June 1956) was an American writer of history, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms are origins Award winners.

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Frank Mentzer

Jacob Franklin Mentzer III 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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Free ad-supported streaming television

Free advertising supported streaming television (FAST) is a category of streaming television services, akin to linear or cable TV, represented by platforms such as Pluto TV, Rakuten TV, The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Tubi, and Xumo.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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Future plc

Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.

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Game mechanics

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them.

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Game System License

The Game System License is a license that allows third-party publishers to create products compatible with and using the intellectual property from the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England.

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Games World of Puzzles

Games World of Puzzles is an American games and puzzle magazine.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.

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Garden of Eden

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.

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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 tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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Geek

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. Dungeons & Dragons and geek are Nerd culture.

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Gen Con

Gen Con is the largest tabletop game convention in North America by both attendance and number of events.

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Generation Z

Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Glorantha

Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford.

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Goodman Games

Goodman Games is an American game publisher best known for the Dungeon Crawl Classics series of adventure modules and role-playing game, its science fiction offshoot Mutant Crawl Classics, and Original Adventures Reincarnated, a line of updated, annotated, and expanded republications of classic RPG adventures and supplements, mostly from TSR, Inc.'s Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Green Ronin Publishing

Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Grenadier Models Inc.

Grenadier Models Inc. of Springfield, Pennsylvania produced lead miniature figures for wargames and role-playing games with fantasy, science fiction and heroic themes between 1975 and 1996. Dungeons & Dragons and Grenadier Models Inc. are origins Award winners.

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Greyhawk

Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

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Greyhawk (supplement)

Greyhawk is a supplementary rulebook written by Gary Gygax and Robert J. Kuntz for the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Griffin McElroy

Griffin Andrew McElroy (born April 17, 1987) is an American podcaster, actor, writer, composer, and former video game journalist.

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Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica is a sourcebook that details the Ravnica campaign setting for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published in November 2018.

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GURPS

The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system published by Steve Jackson Games. Dungeons & Dragons and GURPS are origins Award winners.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

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Half-elf (Dungeons & Dragons)

The half-elf is a player character race featured in Dungeons & Dragons and related material.

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Halfling

Halflings are a fictional race found in some fantasy works.

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Harold Johnson (game designer)

Harold Johnson is an American game designer and editor, and author of several products and articles for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR.

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Harpy

In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies,,; harpȳia) is a half-human and half-bird, often believed to be a personification of storm winds.

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Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. (a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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Health (game terminology)

Health is a video game or tabletop game quality that determines the maximum amount of damage or fatigue something takes before leaving the main game.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Hobbit

Hobbits are a fictional race of people in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien.

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ICv2

ICv2 is an online trade magazine that covers geek culture for retailers.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Improvisation

Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.

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Indie role-playing game

An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional, "mainstream" means.

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Inverse (website)

Inverse is an online magazine from Bustle Digital Group, covering topics such as technology, science, and culture for a millennial audience.

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Io9

io9 is a sub-blog of the technology blog Gizmodo that focuses on science fiction and fantasy pop culture, with former focuses on science, technology and futurism.

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Iowa Law Review

The Iowa Law Review is a law review published five times annually by the University of Iowa College of Law.

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Jabberwocky

"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock".

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.

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James Dallas Egbert III

James Dallas Egbert III (October 29, 1962 – August 16, 1980) was a student at Michigan State University who disappeared for about a month from his dormitory room on August 15, 1979.

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Jeff Perren

Jeff Perren is a game designer, a hobby shop owner, and an early associate of Gary Gygax.

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Joe Manganiello

Joseph Michael Manganiello (born December 28, 1976) is an American actor.

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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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John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry.

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Jon Favreau

Jonathan Kolia Favreau (born October 19, 1966) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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Jon Freeman (game designer)

Jon Freeman is a game designer and co-founder of software developer Automated Simulations, which was later renamed to Epyx and became a major company during the 8-bit era of home computing.

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Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a triannual online peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2002 and is published by University of Toronto Press.

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Judges Guild

Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976.

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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review.

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Ken Keeler

Ken Keeler is an American television producer and writer.

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Kenzer & Company

Kenzer & Company (KenzerCo) is a Waukegan, Illinois based publisher of comic books, role-playing games, board games, card games, and miniature games.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (λαβύρινθος||) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Limited series (comics)

In the field of comic books, and particularly in the United States, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues.

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Lionsgate Canada

Lionsgate Canada (formerly known as Entertainment One, and commonly abbreviated as eOne) is a Canadian entertainment company and a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios.

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List of assets owned by Paramount Global

The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Paramount Global, an American multinational media conglomerate headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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List of Dungeons & Dragons video games

This is a list of officially licensed video games which use the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy tabletop role-playing game IP.

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List of Dungeons & Dragons web series

Wizards of the Coast has created, produced and sponsored multiple web series featuring Dungeons & Dragons.

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List of succubi in fiction

A succubus (plural succubi) is a type of demoness referenced in various works of fiction.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Magic in Dungeons & Dragons

The magic in Dungeons & Dragons consists of the spells and magic systems used in the settings of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Magic item (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a magic item is any object that is imbued with magic powers.

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Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are Hasbro franchises, Nerd culture, origins Award winners and Wizards of the Coast games.

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Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters, also known as Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters, is a 1982 American made-for-television film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about a group of college students and their interest in a fictitious role-playing game (RPG) of the same name.

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Mazes and Monsters (novel)

Mazes and Monsters is a 1981 novel by Rona Jaffe.

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Mea culpa

Mea culpa is a phrase originating from Latin that means my fault or my mistake and is an acknowledgment of having done wrong.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English–American writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is an integrated suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications offered by Microsoft.

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Middle-earth Enterprises

Middle-earth Enterprises, formerly known as Tolkien Enterprises, is a subdivision of the Embracer Freemode division of Embracer Group and formerly a trade name for a division of The Saul Zaentz Company.

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Mike Mearls

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

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Military organization

Military organization (AE) or military organisation (BE) is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require.

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Military tactics

Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield.

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Miniature wargaming

Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming in which military units are represented by miniature physical models on a model battlefield.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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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. Dungeons & Dragons and monster Manual are origins Award winners.

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Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the term monster refers to a variety of creatures, some adapted from folklore and legends and others invented specifically for the game.

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Monstrous Compendium

The Monstrous Compendium is a series of accessories for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game released from 1989 to 1998.

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Moral panic

A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.

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Murder of Lieth Von Stein

Lieth Peter Von Stein (March 16, 1946 – July 25, 1988) was an American businessman whose murder launched a high-profile trial in North Carolina.

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Museum of Pop Culture

The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture.

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Mystara

Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game.

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Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Mythic Odysseys of Theros is a sourcebook that details the Theros campaign setting for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published in June 2020.

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National Toy Hall of Fame

The National Toy Hall of Fame is a U.S. hall of fame that recognizes the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for many years.

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ND Stevenson

Nate Diana "Indy" Stevenson (born Noelle Diana Stevenson, December 31, 1991), known professionally as ND Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Non-player character

A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player.

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Old School Renaissance

The Old School Renaissance, Old School Revival, or OSR, is a play style movement in tabletop role-playing games which draws inspiration from the earliest days of tabletop RPGs in the 1970s, especially Dungeons & Dragons.

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Ongoing series

In comics, an ongoing series is a series that runs indefinitely.

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Open Game License

The Open Game License (OGL) is a public copyright license by Wizards of the Coast that may be used by tabletop role-playing game developers to grant permission to modify, copy, and redistribute some of the content designed for their games, notably game mechanics.

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Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, orcs are a primitive race of savage, bestial, barbaric humanoid.

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Origins Awards

The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the gaming industry. Dungeons & Dragons and Origins Awards are origins Award winners.

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Osprey Publishing

Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company specializing in military history based in Oxford.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paizo

Paizo Inc. (originally Paizo Publishing) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing games Pathfinder and Starfinder.

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PanzerBlitz

PanzerBlitz is a tactical-scale board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1970 that simulates armored combat set on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Party (role-playing games)

A party is a group of characters adventuring together in a role-playing game.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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Pegasus (game magazine)

Pegasus was a gaming magazine published from 1981 to 1983 by Judges Guild.

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Peter Adkison

Peter D. Adkison is an American game designer and businessman who is the founder of Wizards of the Coast, where he held the role of CEO from 1993 to 2001.

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Planescape

Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, designed by Zeb Cook, and published in 1994. Dungeons & Dragons and Planescape are origins Award winners.

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Player character

A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game.

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Player's Handbook

The Player's Handbook (spelled Players Handbook in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)) is the name given to one of the core rulebooks in every edition of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Dungeons & Dragons and Player's Handbook are origins Award winners.

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Playtest

A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and design flaws before releasing it to market.

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Playthings (magazine)

Playthings was an American trade magazine focusing on the toy and game industry.

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Plex Inc.

Plex Inc. is an American software company that runs its namesake ad-supported streaming media service that provides television shows and movies to users worldwide, and further provides a platform to discuss and discover content across all major subscription streaming services.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001.

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Press release

A press release (also known as a media release) is an official statement delivered to members of the news media for the purpose of providing information, creating an official statement, or making an announcement directed for public release.

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Prometheus Books

Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).

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Psychosis

Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Ral Partha Enterprises

Formed in 1975, Ral Partha Enterprises, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is now known as Ral Partha Legacy Ltd. and produces miniature figures in 25 mm, 30 mm, 15 mm, and 54 mm scale. Dungeons & Dragons and Ral Partha Enterprises are origins Award winners.

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Ranger (Dungeons & Dragons)

The Ranger is one of the standard playable character classes in most editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Ravenloft

Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Dungeons & Dragons and Ravenloft are origins Award winners.

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Reprint

A reprint is a re-publication of material that has already been previously published.

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Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a rebroadcast of an episode of a radio or television program.

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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim.

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Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Role-playing

Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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Roll20

Roll20 is a website consisting of a set of tools for playing tabletop role-playing games, also referred to as a virtual tabletop, which can be used as an aid to playing in person or remotely online.

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Royalty payment

A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

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RPGnet

RPGnet is a role-playing game website.

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RuneQuest

RuneQuest (commonly abbreviated as RQ) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James, and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco.

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Satanism

Satanism refers to a group of religious, ideological, and/or philosophical beliefs based on Satan – particularly his worship or veneration.

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Saving throw

In role-playing games (RPGs) and war games, a saving throw is a roll of dice used to determine whether magic, poison, or various other types of attacks are effective against a character or monster.

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Screen Rant

Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.

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Sean Patrick Fannon

Sean Patrick Fannon is an American role-playing game designer and writer.

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is an American animated television series developed for Netflix by ND Stevenson and produced by DreamWorks Animation Television.

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Simulations Publications, Inc.

Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related magazines, particularly its flagship Strategy & Tactics, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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SLUG Magazine

SLUG Magazine, SLUG being an acronym for Salt Lake UnderGround, is a free monthly magazine based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Spelljammer

Spelljammer is a campaign setting originally published for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastic (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment.

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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is a boxed set for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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Starburst (magazine)

Starburst is a British science fiction magazine published by Starburst Magazine Limited.

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Statistic (role-playing games)

A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Steve Winter

Steve Winter (born December 8, 1957) is an American game designer who worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, which was originally published by TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.

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Stranger Things

Stranger Things is an American horror television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix.

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Streisand effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

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Survey (human research)

In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people.

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Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures.

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Tabletop role-playing game

A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a classification for a role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech, and sometimes movements. Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop role-playing game are tabletop games.

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Tactics II

Tactics II Tactics II is a wargame designed by Charles S. Roberts and published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1958 and then re-released again in 1961 and 1972.

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Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 2020.

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Temple of the Frog

Temple of the Frog is a 48-page 1986 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

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The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone is a weekly comedy and adventure actual play podcast based loosely upon the Dungeons & Dragons game series, along with other role-playing games.

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The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers and head writers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. Dungeons & Dragons and the Big Bang Theory are Nerd culture.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Complete Book of Wargames

The Complete Book of Wargames by Jon Freeman and the editors of Consumer Guide was published in 1980 by Simon & Schuster under the Fireside imprint.

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The Dungeon Master

The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III is a 1984 book by private investigator William Dear.

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The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible

The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible is a book detailing fantasy role-playing games (RPGs), written by Sean Patrick Fannon and published by Prima Publishing in 1996.

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The Gamers: Dorkness Rising

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a feature-length film produced by Dead Gentlemen Productions, and focuses on a group of tabletop role-playing gamers as their gamemaster attempts to shepherd them through a campaign that they have played through three times and have yet to actually finish.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Dungeons & Dragons and the Lord of the Rings are Mythopoeia.

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The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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TheStreet

TheStreet is a financial news and financial literacy website.

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Three Hearts and Three Lions

Three Hearts and Three Lions is a 1961 fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, expanded from a 1953 novella by Anderson which appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine.

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Tim Duncan

Timothy Theodore Duncan (born April 25, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Tom Moldvay

Thomas Steven Moldvay (November 5, 1948 – March 9, 2007) was an American game designer and author, best known for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Traveller (role-playing game)

Traveller is a science fiction role-playing game first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Dungeons & Dragons and Traveller (role-playing game) are origins Award winners.

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TSR, Inc.

TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company, best known as the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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Tunnels & Trolls

Tunnels & Trolls (abbreviated T&T) is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo.

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Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

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Unearthed Arcana

Unearthed Arcana (abbreviated UA) is the title shared by two hardback books published for different editions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

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University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Canadian public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal.

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Vampire: The Masquerade

Vampire: The Masquerade is a tabletop role-playing game (tabletop RPG) created by Mark Rein-Hagen and released in 1991 by White Wolf Publishing as the first of several Storyteller System games for its World of Darkness setting line. Dungeons & Dragons and Vampire: The Masquerade are origins Award winners.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Vin Diesel

Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and film producer.

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Volte-face

Volte-face is a total change of position, as in policy or opinion; an about-face.

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Wargame

A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict.

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Warhammer (game)

Warhammer (formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle or just Warhammer Fantasy) is a tabletop miniature wargame with a medieval fantasy theme. Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer (game) are origins Award winners.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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William Dear

William Dear (born November 30, 1943) is a Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic.

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Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American publisher of games, most of which are based on fantasy and science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores.

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Wizards Presents: Races and Classes

Wizards Presents: Races and Classes is an accessory released as a preview for the 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in December 2007.

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1977 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 4th annual (1977) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1978.

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1989 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 16th annual (1989) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1990.

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2000 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 27th annual (2000) Origins Award, presented at Origins 2001.

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2014 Origins Award winners

The following are the winners of the 41st annual (2014) Origins Award, presented at Origins 2015.

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20th Television

20th Television (formerly known as TCF Television Productions, 20th Century-Fox Television, and 20th Century Fox Television) is an American television production company which is a division of Disney Television Studios, part of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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30 Years of Adventure

30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons is a 2004 publisher's retrospective written by Harold Johnson, Steve Winter, Peter Adkison, Ed Stark, and Peter Archer.

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References

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