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| d&d beyond player's handbook: Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (D&D Campaign Setting and Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons) Dungeons & Dragons, 2020-03-17 HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS? A war brews on a continent that has withstood more than its fair share of conflict. The Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty are carving up the lands around them, and only the greatest heroes would dare stand between them. Somewhere in the far corners of this war-torn landscape are secrets that could end this conflict and usher in a new age of peace—or burn the world to a cinder. Create a band of heroes and embark on a journey across the continent of Wildemount, the setting for Campaign 2 of the hit Dungeons & Dragons series Critical Role. Within this book, you’ll find new character options, a heroic chronicle to help you craft your character’s backstory, four different starting adventures, and everything a Dungeon Master needs to breathe life into a Wildemount-based D&D campaign… · Delve through the first Dungeons & Dragons book to let players experience the game as played within the world of Critical Role, the world’s most popular livestreaming D&D show. · Uncover a trove of options usable in any D&D game, featuring subclasses, spells, magic items, monsters, and more, rooted in the adventures of Exandria—such as Vestiges of Divergence and the possibility manipulating magic of Dunamancy. · Start a Dungeons & Dragons campaign in any of Wildemount’s regions using a variety of introductory adventures, dozens of regional plot seeds, and the heroic chronicle system—a way to create character backstories rooted in Wildemount. Explore every corner of Wildemount and discover mysteries revealed for the first time by Critical Role Dungeon Master, Matthew Mercer. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Live to Tell the Tale Keith Ammann, 2020-07-07 From the author of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes an introduction to combat tactics for Dungeons & Dragons players. In his first book, The Monsters Know What They’re Doing (based on his popular blog), Keith Ammann unleashed upon the D&D world a wave of clever, highly evolved monster tactics. Now it’s only fair that he gives players the tools they need to fight back…and prevail! An introduction to combat tactics for fifth-edition Dungeons & Dragons players, Live to Tell the Tale evens the score. It examines the fundamentals of D&D battles: combat roles, party composition, attacking combos, advantage and disadvantage, Stealth and Perception, and more…including the ever-important consideration of how to run away! Don’t worry about creating a mathematically perfect character from square one. Survival isn’t about stats—it’s about behavior! With four turn-by-turn, roll-by-roll, blow-by-blow sample battles, Live to Tell the Tale breaks down how to make the best choices for your cherished characters so that they can survive their adventures, retire upon their accumulated riches, and tell stories about the old days that nobody will ever believe. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) Dungeons & Dragons, 2021-12-07 Rollicking campus adventures for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. The greatest minds in the multiverse meet at Strixhaven University. Professors convey fantastic secrets to eager students, and life on campus is frenetic. But danger lurks even here. Campus hijinks mix with mishaps and sinister plots, and it’s up to you to save the day. Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos introduces the fantastical setting of Strixhaven University to Dungeons & Dragons, drawn from the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering. It also provides rules for creating characters who are students in one of its five colleges. Characters can explore the setting over the course of four adventures, which can be played together or on their own. Each describes an academic year filled with scholarly pursuits, campus shenanigans, exciting friendships, hidden dangers, and perhaps even romance. Includes four brand new D&D adventures that can be played as stand-alones or woven together as a campaign from levels 1–10 Adds a new playable race—an owlin, one of the owlfolk who study at the university Includes a bestiary of over forty magical creatures and NPCs Experience D&D in new ways through the academic challenges, extracurricular activities and jobs, and relationships explored on campus Includes a beautifully illustrated double-sided poster map that shows Strixhaven’s campus on one side and important locations on the other Attend an elite mage university, choose your college, and adventure your way to graduation Adds new player character options including feats and new backgrounds for first-year students at Strixhaven |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (Core Rulebook, D&D Roleplaying Game) Dungeons & Dragons, 2014-08-19 Create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. The Player’s Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes. Publisher’s Weekly #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction • In Dungeons & Dragons, you and your friends coauthor your own legend. Guided by a Dungeon Master, you create characters and play their roles in a story, rolling dice and navigating maps as you unfold a tale as limitless as your imagination. • The Player’s Handbook is the first of three D&D core rulebooks, along with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The Player’s Handbook is the cornerstone. It’s the foundational text of D&D’s fifth edition—for beginners and for veterans alike. • The Player’s Handbook walks you through how to create a Dungeons & Dragons character—the role you’ll play in the D&D world. • Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Created in 1974, D&D transformed gaming culture by blending traditional fantasy with miniatures and wargaming. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: The Monsters Know What They're Doing Keith Ammann, 2019-10-29 From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Tome of Beasts Wolfgang Baur, 2016-11-08 Whether you need dungeon vermin or a world-shaking personification of evil, the Tome of beasts has it. Here are more than 400 new foes for your 5th edition game--everything from tiny drakes and peculiar spiders, to demon lords and ancient dragons.--Back cover. |
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| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons & Dragons Acquisitions Incorporated HC (D&D Campaign Accessory Hardcover Book) Wizards RPG Team, 2019-06-18 Explore a wealth of peril and personalities in this campaign book for the world’s greatest roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Acquisitions Incorporated is a different flavor of Dungeons & Dragons. A fifth edition D&D book created in partnership with Penny Arcade Inc. and inspired by the podcast and web series, this book is full of madcap heists, hilarious moments, and all the ingredients you need to include the adventurers of Acquisitions Incorporated in your own fifth edition D&D campaign. • Start up your own Acquisitions Incorporated franchise in the Forgotten Realms or anywhere in the multiverse. • Live out your fantasy of climbing the corporate ladder of the most notorious retrieval agency in the Forgotten Realms—Acquisitions Incorporated. • The 224-page book will give Dungeon Masters and players plenty of bits to play a D&D fifth edition game just as if you were on stage with the crew at PAX! New backgrounds, character options, franchise information and more. • You'll also find an adventure that will take characters from levels 1 through 6, establishing your party's claim on a world they've just begun to explore—and to strip-mine for profit. Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Created in 1974, D&D transformed gaming culture by blending traditional fantasy with miniatures and wargaming. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: D&d Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure Accessory Kit Wizards RPG Team, 2021-09-21 The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is D&D's next big adventure storyline that brings the wicked whimsy of the Feywild to fifth edition for the first time. Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new characters, monsters, mechanics, and story hooks suitable for players of all ages and experience levels. The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is D&D's next big adventure storyline that brings the wicked whimsy of the Feywild to fifth edition for the first time. Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new characters, monsters, mechanics, and story hooks suitable for players of all ages and experience levels. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Of Dice and Men David M. Ewalt, 2013-08-20 A definitive look at Dungeons & Dragons traces its origins on the battlefields of ancient Europe through the hysteria that linked it to satanic rituals and teen suicides and to its apotheosis as father of the modern video game industry. |
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| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, 2005-04-08 Caught in traffic. Trapped in a cubicle. Stuck in a rut. Tangled up in red tape. In the real world, sometimes you feel powerless—but not in Dungeons & Dragons (D & D). In this fantasy-adventure, you have all kinds of special powers. You can slay the evil dragon, overcome the orc or the ogre, haunt the werewolf, and triumph over sinister trolls. You venture into strange realms, encounter strange creatures, and use magical powers. Your character grows and develops with every adventure. With this guide, you can learn the ins and outs of D & D and start playing right away. Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies gives beginners the basics of the complex game and helps experienced players fine-tune their roleplaying. It guides you through: Creating your character (a powerful fighter, a sneaky rogue, a crafty sorcerer, or a charismatic cleric), and character advancement The races: humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings The types of character actions: attack rolls, skill check, and ability checks The 6 abilities: strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma Feat requirements and types Playing the game, including moving in combat, attacking with a weapon (melee attacks or ranged attacks), and damage and dying Picking skills, armor, weapons, and gear Choosing spells if your character is a sorcerer or domains for a cleric Building encounter or combat strategies and using advanced tactics Maximizing your character’s power with the acquisition of the right magic items: armor, weapons, potion, scroll, ring, wand, staff, rod, plus wondrous items D & D game etiquette Becoming a Dungeon Master There’s even a sample play session that walks you through typical play, gets you comfortable using the battle grid and character markers, lets you test player characters against each other and against monsters, and shows you how to add story elements to create an adventure. Produced in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, written by D & D game designers, and complete with a battle grid, a sample dungeon map, and a glossary, this guide arms you with the knowledge to create and equip a character and empowers you to enter the captivating, fascinating world of D & D. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Draconomicon Andy Collins, James Wyatt, Skip Williams, 2003-10 An art-filled sourcebook for all things draconic in the Dungeons & Dragons world, this title includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords) |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Strongholds & Followers Matthew Colville, 2019-06 Stronghold & Followers explains both the practicality of owning a keep (how much it costs to build, the costs to maintain it, what sort of impact it would have on local politics) and gives a variety of benefits for those players who choose to build or take over one. -- Comicbook.com website: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/12/14/stronghold-and-followers-dungeons-and-dragons/ (viewed July 16, 2019) |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Caves of Carnage , 2009-02 Illustrated cardstock terrain tiles for use with the Dungeons & Dragons(R) Roleplaying Game. This accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game contains six double-sided sheets of illustrated, die-cut terrain tiles printed on heavy cardstock. These tiles feature twisting caverns that include underground rivers, chasms, treacherous rope bridges, and the aftermath of bloody battles. |
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| d&d beyond player's handbook: Player's Handbook Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, James Wyatt, 2009 This companion to the 'Player's handbook' core rulebook introduces the primal power source, which draws on the spirits that preserve and sustain the world. This book includes four classes tied to the primal power source: the barbarian, the druid, the shaman, and the warden. It also presents four new arcane and divine classes: the avenger, the bard, the invoker, and the sorcerer. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Storm King's Thunder Dungeons & Dragons, 2016-09-06 Take a stand against the giants in this adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game Giants have emerged from their strongholds to threaten civilization as never before. Hill giants are stealing all the grain and livestock they can while stone giants have been scouring settlements that have been around forever. Fire giants are press-ganging the smallfolk into the desert, while frost giant longships have been pillaging along the Sword Coast. Even the elusive cloud giants have been witnessed, their wondrous floating cities appearing above Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate. Where is the storm giant King Hekaton, who is tasked with keeping order among the giants? The humans, dwarves, elves, and other small folk of the Sword Coast will be crushed underfoot from the onslaught of these giant foes. The only chance at survival is for the small folk to work together to investigate this invasion and harness the power of rune magic, the giants’ weapon against their ancient enemy the dragons. The only way the people of Faerun can restore order is to use the giants’ own power against them. To defeat giants, you need to be giant! |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Races of Eberron Jesse Decker, Matthew Sernett, Keith Baker, Gwendolyn F. M. Kestrel, 2005-04 This new D&D sourcebook details the major races of the Eberron world, with an in-depth look at the new races of the Eberron Campaign Setting, including changelings, the kalashtar, shifters, and the warforged. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: The Lazy Dungeon Master Michael Shea, 2019-06-14 You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time, less energy, and have a better game as a result?It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D.Based on the real-world experiences of hundreds of dungeon masters and dozens of professional game designers, the Lazy Dungeon Master includes interviews with veteran D&D DMs and a complete toolkit to help you improvise an entire game.Whether you play 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, or the D&D Next playtest; The Lazy Dungeon Master has tips, techniques, and advice to make preparation easier and help you run a flexible and entertaining game. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Player's Guide to the Dragonlance Campaign TSR Inc, 1993-08-01 Novel readers and AD&D players are always looking for a new challenge. This product provides all the information they need to begin riding dragons in the skies of Krynn. Beginners and experienced players alike will thrill at the glory and adventure of this newest guide to the Dragonlance campaign world. Leatherette cover. *****Marion, add to end of title: gn (PG1)***** |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Player's Handbook Races: Tieflings Mike Mearls, Matthew Sernett, 2010 Roleplaying game supplement.--P. [1] of cover. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Player's Handbook II David Noonan, 2006-05 This follow-up to the Player's Handbook is designed to aid players and provide more character options. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Play Unsafe Graham Walmsley, 2009-01-20 Often, we treat games like work. In this book, Graham Walmsley explores what happens when you throw the serious stuff away: when you stop working, start playing and put stories at the heart of your game. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (Core Rulebook, D&D Roleplaying Game) Dungeons & Dragons, 2014-08-19 Create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. The Player’s Handbook is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Use this book to create characters from among the most iconic D&D races and classes. Publisher’s Weekly #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller in Hardcover Nonfiction • In Dungeons & Dragons, you and your friends coauthor your own legend. Guided by a Dungeon Master, you create characters and play their roles in a story, rolling dice and navigating maps as you unfold a tale as limitless as your imagination. • The Player’s Handbook is the first of three D&D core rulebooks, along with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The Player’s Handbook is the cornerstone. It’s the foundational text of D&D’s fifth edition—for beginners and for veterans alike. • The Player’s Handbook walks you through how to create a Dungeons & Dragons character—the role you’ll play in the D&D world. • Dungeons & Dragons is the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Created in 1974, D&D transformed gaming culture by blending traditional fantasy with miniatures and wargaming. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook Collection Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, Gam, Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, James Wyatt, 2009-11-17 2 great books... 1 great price! The Player's Handbook and Player's Handbook 2 contain all of the rules, classes, races, feats, skills, and items any player of D&D(R) will ever need. Gathered together in a handsome slip-case, this special holiday collection offers both books at one great price! In addition to this savings, purchasers will receive a promotional code that will garner them $12 off on a year-long subscription to D&D Insider(TM), the premier website for the dedicated D&D gamer. D&D Insider provides players with great additional rules content as well as a suite of tools designed to make playing D&D that much easier. This great holiday offering is just the thing for either the new or the dedicated gamer in your life... |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age Stephanie Hedge, Jennifer Grouling, 2021-02-22 The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons. Millions tune in to watch and listen to RPG players on podcasts and streaming platforms, while virtual tabletops connect online players. Such shifts elicit new scholarly perspectives. This collection includes essays on the transmedia ecology that has connected analog with digital and audio spaces. Essays explore the boundaries of virtual tabletops and how users engage with a variety of technology to further role-playing. Authors map the growing diversity of the TRPG fandom and detail how players interact with RPG-related podcasts. Interviewed are content creators like Griffin McElroy of The Adventure Zone podcast, Roll20 co-creator Nolan T. Jones, board game designers Nikki Valens and Isaac Childres and fan artists Tracey Alvarez and Alex Schiltz. These essays and interviews expand the academic perspective to reflect the future of role-playing. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dragons in the Stacks Steven A. Torres-Roman, Cason E. Snow, 2014-10-17 A one-stop, complete guide to tabletop role-playing games for novice librarians as well as seasoned players. Tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) are a perfect fit for library teen services. They not only hold great appeal for teen patrons, but also help build important skills ranging from math and literacy to leadership and dramatics. Role-playing games are cost-effective too. Dragons in the Stacks explains why RPGs are so effective at holding teenagers' attention, identifies their specific benefits, outlines how to select and maintain a RPG collection, and demonstrates how they can enhance teen services and be used in teen programs. Detailed reviews of role-playing games are included as well, with pointers on their strengths, weaknesses, and library applications. Coauthored by an experienced young adult librarian and an adult services librarian, this is the definitive guide to RPGs in the library, and the only one currently available. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition For Dummies Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, 2009-01-29 Explore the fantasy world of D&D and delve into dungeons, slay monsters, and gain treasure! If you've been thinking of playing D&D or you've played before and you want to get up to speed on the all-new 4th Edition, this is the book for you. Here's what you need to know to join the fantasy fun. D&D terminology — understand what ability check, modifier, saving throw, AC, gp, hp, and XP mean Roll the dice — add modifiers and see if you rolled the d20 high enough to beat the challenge Minding your manners — know D&D etiquette so you'll be welcome in any adventure Character building — select your character's race and class, and choose the best powers, skills, feats, and gear Roleplaying — give your character a background and personality quirks Combat — use combat rules, a battle grid, and miniatures to play out furious battles Open the book and find: Everything a new player needs to get started playing D&D Details on four fantasy races and four iconic classes Explanations of every number and statistic on the character sheet The best magic items and equipment for characters of all classes Advice on roleplaying and teamwork A ready-to-use adventure to get you started as a Dungeon Master A ready-to-use battle grid with character and monster markers |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Entering the Multiverse Paul Booth, 2024-11-25 The multiverse has portaled into the mainstream. Entering the Multiverse unpacks the surprising growth of the multiverse in media and popular culture today, and explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has acted as a metaphor for centuries. Edited by leading media and popular culture scholar Paul Booth, this collection explores the many different manifestations of the multiverse across different genres, media, fan-created works, and cultural theory. Each chapter delves into different aspects of the multiverse, including its use as a metaphor, as a scientific reality, and as a media-industry strategy. Addressing the multiplicity of multiversal meanings through multiple perspectives and always with an eye toward engagement with contemporary cultural issues, the chapters also examine various distinctions and contradictions, in order to provide a strong basis for further thinking, writing, and research on the concept of the multiverse. Chapters in this collection tell the story of the multiverse in multiple realities: creative nonfiction, academic essay, screenplay, art, poetry, video, and audio essay. A compelling read for students, researchers, and scholars of media and cultural studies, film and media culture, popular culture, comics studies, game studies, literary studies, and beyond. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Altered Earth David Caffee, 2011-08-09 A science fiction RPG compatible with the 4E rules.Altered Earth is a role-playing game of high energy battles and thrilling adventures set against an epic science fiction background. The action takes place in a futuristic world filled with endless possibilities. Any kind of adventure that you can imagine is waiting for you in a setting that is filled with dangerous wastelands, high tech cities, awesome war machines, and unexplored ruins.Your character might be a gritty mercenary, a cold blooded assassin, an intrepid explorer, or a loyal soldier to the cause. You might be motivated to seek out adventure for the sake of greed, for thrills, or simply to escape your previous life. Or perhaps you have your own personal quest that you are pursuing. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Welcome to Dragon Talk Shelly Mazzanoble, Greg Tito, 2022-12-05 In this collection, the hosts of Dragon Talk, the official D and D podcast, recount some of the most inspiring stories from their guests. All use the core tenants of the game in their everyday life-- |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies José P. Zagal, Sebastian Deterding, 2024-06-27 This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Baldur’s Gate, Genshin Impact, and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like worldbuilding, immersion, and player-character relations, as well as explore actual play and streaming, diversity, equity, inclusion, jubensha, therapeutic uses of RPGs, and storygames, journaling games, and other forms of text-based RPGs. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help students and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this interdisciplinary field. A comprehensive reference volume ideal for students and scholars of game studies and immersive experiences and those looking to learn more about the ever-growing, interdisciplinary field of RPG studies. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Watch Us Roll Shelly Jones, 2021-08-03 Actual play is a movement within role-playing gaming in which players livestream their gameplay for others to watch and enjoy. This new medium has allowed the playing of games to become a digestible, consumable text for individuals to watch, enjoy, learn from, and analyze. Bridging the gap between the analog and the digital, actual play is changing and challenging our expectations of tabletop role-playing and providing a space for new scholarship. This edited collection of essays focuses on Dungeons and Dragons actual play and examines this phenomenon from a variety of different disciplinary approaches. Authors explore how to define actual play, how fans interact with and affect the narrative and gameplay of actual play, the diversity of gamers (or lack thereof) within actual play media, and how audiences can use actual play media for more than mere entertainment. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Special Edition Player's Handbook Dungeons & Dragons, 2004-10 This core rulebook is a deluxe, leather-bound edition of the essential tool every D&D player needs. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: The Role-Playing Society Andrew Byers, Francesco Crocco, 2016-03-01 Since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, role-playing games (RPGs) have spawned a vibrant industry and subculture whose characteristics and player experiences have been well explored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the ways RPGs have shaped society at large over the last four decades. Role-playing games influenced video game design, have been widely represented in film, television and other media, and have made their mark on education, social media, corporate training and the military. This collection of new essays illustrates the broad appeal and impact of RPGs. Topics range from a critical reexamination of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, to the growing significance of RPGs in education, to the potential for serious RPGs to provoke awareness and social change. The contributors discuss the myriad subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways in which the values, concepts and mechanics of RPGs have infiltrated popular culture. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Slaying the Dragon Ben Riggs, 2022-07-19 Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR— the company that unleashed imaginations with Dungeons & Dragons, was driven into ruin by disastrous management decisions, and then saved by their bitterest rival. Ben Riggs manages to walk the fine line between historical accuracy and fun about as well as anyone and SLAYING THE DRAGON is equal parts historical accuracy and entertainment. It was an essential read for me while directing and producing the Official D&D documentary but I’d recommend it to anyone regardless of the subject material. It’s a wild and fun ride through the turbulent history of one the most influential brands in our lifetime. - JOE MANGANIELLO Co-created by wargame enthusiasts Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the original Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game released by TSR (Tactical Studies Rules) in 1974 created a radical new medium: the role-playing game. For the next two decades, TSR rocketed to success, producing multiple editions of D&D, numerous settings for the game, magazines, video games, New York Times bestselling novels by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, and R. A. Salvatore, and even a TV show! But by 1997, a series of ruinous choices and failed projects brought TSR to the edge of doom—only to be saved by their fiercest competitor, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Unearthed from Ben Riggs’s own adventurous campaign of in-depth research, interviews with major players, and acquisitions of secret documents, Slaying the Dragon reveals the true story of the rise and fall of TSR. Go behind the scenes of their Lake Geneva headquarters where innovative artists and writers redefined the sword and sorcery genre, managers and executives sabotaged their own success by alienating their top talent, ignoring their customer fanbase, accruing a mountain of debt, and agreeing to deals which, by the end, made them into a publishing company unable to publish so much as a postcard. As epic and fantastic as the adventures TSR published, Slaying the Dragon is the legendary tale of the rise and fall of the company that created the role-playing game world. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Race and Popular Fantasy Literature Helen Young, 2015-08-11 This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genre’s racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre’s habits of whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture. |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Dungeon Master For Dummies James Wyatt, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, 2008-11-17 Design your own fantasy D&D epic filled with adventurous exploits, cloaked characters, and mysterious monsters If you're a Dungeons & Dragons fan, you've surely thought of becoming a Dungeon Master. Learning to be a DM isn't as hard as you might think, especially if you have Dungeon Master For Dummies tucked into your bag of tricks! Whether you've assumed the role of Dungeon Master before or not, this illustrated reference can help you run a D&D game, either online or in person. From organizing your first D&D game to dealing with difficult players, this book covers everything a DM needs to know. Written for the newest edition of D&D by the experts at Wizards of the Coast, the game's creators, it shows you how to: Run your very first campaign, from shaping storylines and writing your own adventures to dealing with unruly players and characters Build challenging encounters, make reasonable rulings, and manage disagreements Recognize all the common codes, tables, and spells Understand the parts of a D&D adventure and how to create dungeon maps and craft monsters Shape storylines and write your own adventures Find your style as a DM and develop a game style that plays to your strengths Script an encounter, vary the terrain and challenges, and establish rewards (experience points and treasure) Decide whether to use published adventures Use and follow the official Dungeon Master's Guide Develop a campaign with exciting themes, memorable villains, and plots to entrance players If you're getting the urge to lead the charge in a D&D game of your own, Dungeon Master For Dummies provides the information you need to start your own game, craft exciting stories, and set up epic adventures. Grab your copy today, and you'll be on your way! |
| d&d beyond player's handbook: Progress in Artificial Intelligence Paulo Moura Oliveira, Paulo Novais, Luís Paulo Reis, 2019-08-31 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in September 2019. The 119 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 252 submissions. The papers are organized in 18 tracks devoted to the following topics: AIEd - Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI4G - Artificial Intelligence for Games, AIoTA - Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture, AIL - Artificial Intelligence and Law, AIM - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AICPDES - Artificial Intelligence in Cyber-Physical and Distributed Embedded Systems, AIPES - Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems, AITS - Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems, ALEA - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms, AmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments, BAAI - Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence, GAI- General AI, IROBOT - Intelligent Robotics, KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence, KRR - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, MASTA - Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications, SSM - Social Simulation and Modelling, TeMA - Text Mining and Applications. |
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网络用词dd是什么意思？ - 知乎
DD意为"无论是谁都最喜欢"（だれでもだいすき 我爱大家）的简写。取假名音 Da re de mo Da i su ki中大写的D和D。在日本一些论坛或大街上能经常看到。 DD也即“大大”（Da Da）的意思， …
yyyy-mm-dd日期格式跟yyyy-m-d有什么区别? - 知乎
Sep 2, 2023 · 所以对于日期来说，通常会用yyyy--mm--dd这种格式来表示，一方面来说，可读性、兼容性更强；另一方面，因为yyyy-mm-dd是固定长度的，它在数据库和电子表格等应用中， …
请问dd水，DEPC水，去离子水，蒸馏水分别是什么，有什么区 …
dd水(double distilled water)： dd水是经过了两次蒸馏得到的水，中文名双蒸水、重蒸水。 DEPC水： DEPC水是先用DEPC处理，后经高温高压灭菌得到的超纯水, DEPC水基本上不 …
如何迅速看懂一张核磁共振氢谱图？ - 知乎
所以 H1 ---》 dd （double doublet） 再看 H2 同理，一样被H1和H3裂分成一个双双重峰。 我们再看 H3 被三个不同位置的氢裂分（H1 H2 H4) 所以你会看到 双双双重峰（double double …
怎样在 Excel 中将文本转换为日期格式？ - 知乎
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业 …
如何评价ThinkBook 14+/16+ 2025款，是否值得购买？ - 知乎
25款TB 14+/16+ 已上架酷睿Ultra 200H、锐龙AI 300版本，基本是常规迭代，是否值得购买？
C盘APPData目录如何清理，目前占用了几十G？ - 知乎
C盘APPData目录如何清理，目前占用了几十G。C盘已经飘红了。
日期格式化（yyyy-MM-dd）中，为什么 M 多大写？ - 知乎
可以看出来使用"YYYY-MM-DD"格式化时间出现了错误！ 具体是什么原因哪？ 这是因为Java语言中在特定的时间或者数字等数据上，平时你感觉一切都OK！但是在特定时间、特定环境就会 …
dd/MMM/yyyy这样的日期格式怎么输入? - 知乎
如何获得格式为"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"，数据类型为Date的数据？ 1 个回答 excel中怎么将yyyy-mm-dd格式的日期转换为yyyy.mm? 4 个回答
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Apr 11, 2025 · 来酷 斗战者 战7000锐龙版，一线品牌性价比大杀器来了 它来了它来了，性价比炸裂的一线品牌游戏本，联想旗下来酷斗战者战7000锐龙版开启预约，r9-8940hx +5060 显卡首发到 …
网络用词dd是什么意思？ - 知乎
DD意为"无论是谁都最喜欢"（だれでもだいすき 我爱大家）的简写。取假名音 Da re de mo Da i su ki中大写的D和D。在日本一些论坛或大街上能经常看到。 DD也即“大大”（Da Da）的意思，同大神。属 …
yyyy-mm-dd日期格式跟yyyy-m-d有什么区别? - 知乎
Sep 2, 2023 · 所以对于日期来说，通常会用yyyy--mm--dd这种格式来表示，一方面来说，可读性、兼容性更强；另一方面，因为yyyy-mm-dd是固定长度的，它在数据库和电子表格等应用中，往往更容 …
请问dd水，DEPC水，去离子水，蒸馏水分别是什么，有什么区 …
dd水(double distilled water)： dd水是经过了两次蒸馏得到的水，中文名双蒸水、重蒸水。 DEPC水： DEPC水是先用DEPC处理，后经高温高压灭菌得到的超纯水, DEPC水基本上不含DEPC，DEPC会被 …
如何迅速看懂一张核磁共振氢谱图？ - 知乎
所以 H1 ---》 dd （double doublet） 再看 H2 同理，一样被H1和H3裂分成一个双双重峰。 我们再看 H3 被三个不同位置的氢裂分（H1 H2 H4) 所以你会看到 双双双重峰（double double doublet）
怎样在 Excel 中将文本转换为日期格式？ - 知乎
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业、友善的社区 …
如何评价ThinkBook 14+/16+ 2025款，是否值得购买？ - 知乎
25款TB 14+/16+ 已上架酷睿Ultra 200H、锐龙AI 300版本，基本是常规迭代，是否值得购买？
C盘APPData目录如何清理，目前占用了几十G？ - 知乎
C盘APPData目录如何清理，目前占用了几十G。C盘已经飘红了。
日期格式化（yyyy-MM-dd）中，为什么 M 多大写？ - 知乎
可以看出来使用"YYYY-MM-DD"格式化时间出现了错误！ 具体是什么原因哪？ 这是因为Java语言中在特定的时间或者数字等数据上，平时你感觉一切都OK！但是在特定时间、特定环境就会出问题的情 …
dd/MMM/yyyy这样的日期格式怎么输入? - 知乎
如何获得格式为"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"，数据类型为Date的数据？ 1 个回答 excel中怎么将yyyy-mm-dd格式的日期转换为yyyy.mm? 4 个回答
