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Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game is currently published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system. D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and, by extension, the entire role-playing game industry.
As of 2006, Dungeons & Dragons remains the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales. Dungeons & Dragons is known beyond the game for other D&D-branded products (such as the popular video games Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate, as well as an animated TV series), references in popular culture and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism and suicide. Template:/box-footer
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Planescape: Torment is a role-playing video game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios and released on December 12, 1999 by Interplay Entertainment. It takes place in Planescape, an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) fantasy campaign setting. The game's engine is a modified version of the Infinity Engine, which was also used for BioWare's Baldur's Gate, a previous AD&D game set in the Forgotten Realms.
Planescape: Torment is primarily story-driven; combat is given less prominence than in most contemporary role-playing games. The protagonist, an immortal who has lost his name, lived many lives, and forgotten them. The game focuses on The Nameless One's journey throughout the city of Sigil and other planes to reclaim his memories of these previous lives. Several characters in the game may join The Nameless One on his journey, most of whom have encountered him in the past.
The game was not a significant commercial success but received widespread critical praise and has since become a cult classic. It was lauded for its immersive dialog, for the dark and relatively obscure Planescape setting, and for the protagonist's unique persona, which shirked many characteristics of traditional role-playing games. It was considered by many video game journalists to be the best role-playing game (RPG) of 1999, and continues to receive attention long after its release.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Book of Vile Darkness is an optional supplemental sourcebook for the 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The book was written by Monte Cook and published by Wizards of the Coast in October 2002. Described as a "detailed look at the nature of evil," it was the first Dungeons & Dragons book labelled for mature audiences. The second was the "good" companion volume Book of Exalted Deeds.
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- May 19, 2009: Wizards of the Coast announces that D&D Insider will contain over 100 pages of finished previews from the Player's Handbook 3.
- April 10, 2009: Dave Arneson, co-creator of the game, died on April 7, 2009, from cancer. Wizards of the Coast's news.
- April 6, 2009: Wizards of the Coast files three lawsuits for copyright infringement of their downloadable Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition PDF books.
- March 25, 2009: Paizo Publishing announces the winner or RPG Superstar 2009, Neil Spicer, who will write the Pathfinder Module Realm of the Fellnight Queen, to be released in January 2010.
- March 17, 2009: The 224-page Player's Handbook 2 has been released, containing new races, new classes, and a new power source (Primal), among other additional rules.
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- General: Dungeons & Dragons controversies, Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture, Dungeons & Dragons related products, Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Sources and influences on the development of Dungeons & Dragons
- Characters: Drizzt Do'Urden, Elminster, Gord the Rogue, Lady of Pain, Lord Soth, Mordenkainen, Raistlin Majere, Strahd von Zarovich
- Gameplay: Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons), Character class (Dungeons & Dragons), Character race (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Monsters: Beholder, Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons), Drow (Dungeons & Dragons), Illithid
- People: Dave Arneson, David "Zeb" Cook, Ed Greenwood, Gary Gygax, Tracy Hickman, R.A. Salvatore, Margaret Weis
- Rulebooks: Draconomicon, Dragon (magazine), Dungeon (magazine), Dungeons & Dragons (1974), Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, Dungeon Master's Guide, Fiend Folio, Manual of the Planes, Monster Manual, Player's Handbook
- Settings: Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Spelljammer, Ravenloft
- Video games: Baldur's Gate (series), dnd (computer game), Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Eye of the Beholder (video game), Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Planescape: Torment, Pool of Radiance
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