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unusual facts about Adventure (Dungeons



Agneta Sjödin

The show was recorded at Fort Bayard in France, and Swedish celebrities performed different tasks in the fort's dungeons.

Anthony Read

He soon graduated to writer/script editor of several other adventure-mystery series, like the anthological Detective, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Peter Cushing's 1965 Sherlock Holmes vehicle.

Arthur O. Friel

Friel began appearing in Adventure magazine in 1919 with stories set in the Amazon jungle featuring the characters Pedro Andrada and Lourenço Moraes, two seringueiros (rubber-industry workers) who undergo harrowing experiences in the impenetrable jungle surrounding the Javary River, an Amazon tributary which forms part of the border between Brazil and Peru.

Bulette

In the early 1970s, Gary Gygax was playing Chainmail, a miniatures wargame that was a precursor to Dungeons & Dragons.

Dark elf

The Dark Elf Trilogy, a series of novels by R. A. Salvatore set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe

Darrin Drader

He has over 50 published credits and has contributed to several noteworthy books for the Dungeons and Dragons game by Wizards of the Coast.

David R. Megarry

Megarry designed a one-off board game called Dungeon! where players trooped through a dungeons on a singular basis, a game that had ultimately derived from the Braunstein playing sessions with Arneson.

Day of Daggers

On the Day of Daggers, Lafayette was away attempting to quell a disturbance caused by Santerre, a Jacobin and commander of the National Guard in St.Antoine, in which Santerre and a mob of about twelve hundred marched toward Vincennes, where they began to destroy part of the parapet and the dungeons that were holding prisoners from the recently fallen Bastille, with the supposed intention of massacring the prisoners.

Desktop Dungeons

Derek Yu, the creator of the video game Spelunky, created one such tileset which the developers of Desktop Dungeons decided to use as the default appearance for the game.

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

:Dungeons are in the form of repetitive, usually complex 3D mazes where it is very easy to lose bearings.

Earthshaker

Earthshaker!, an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Elmore

Larry Elmore, a fantasy artist and an illustrator of Dungeons and Dragons

Evermeet

Evermeet was the subject of a second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook called Elves of Evermeet, by Anthony Pryor (1994).

EX2

EX2 - The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, a 1983 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy Adventure Module

Far Realm

The Far Realm was introduced in the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure module The Gates of Firestorm Peak (1996) written by Bruce Cordell.

Filge

Filge, a fictional character in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Formian

In the third edition version of the Manual of the Planes, formians are implicitly described as being the primary inhabitants of both Arcadia and the Lawful Neutral Outer Plane of Mechanus, which is in contrast to the earlier Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition, where the Modrons were the exemplar Lawful Neutral race and the primary inhabitants of Mechanus.

Fuzzy Knights

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, was an admitted fan of the Fuzzy Knights and wrote a promo for the trade-paperbacks (see below).

Gas spore

The gas spore appeared in third edition Dungeons & Dragons in Lords of Madness (2005).

Gray Waste

It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings.

Gular skin

The snow goblin in Dungeons & Dragons and the great oopik in Star Wars are two fictional species that have a throat sac.

Island of Kesmai

In the summer of 1980 University of Virginia classmates John Taylor and Kelton Flinn wrote Dungeons of Kesmai, a six player game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons which used Roguelike ASCII graphics.

Istar

Istar (Dragonlance), a fictional city set in the fantasy world of Krynn in the Dragonlance setting of the Dungeons & Dragons game

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja

Izuna is a dungeon crawler game with randomly generated dungeons, much like the Mystery Dungeon series.

Jerry Holkins

Holkins and Krahulik had the opportunity to play the new release of Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition in Seattle for a day with Chris Perkins from Wizards of the Coast, Scott Kurtz of PvP, and Wil Wheaton.

Kuo-toa

The name "kuo-toa" was created by Gary Gygax, co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

London Dungeon

The Amsterdam Dungeon, Berlin Dungeon, The Blackpool Tower Dungeon, The Castle Dungeon at Warwick Castle, The Edinburgh Dungeon, Hamburg Dungeon, and the York Dungeon are also part of the Dungeons Group, owned by Merlin Entertainments.

Margaret Ball

Two generations later this pattern was repeated when Francis Taylor, who was Mayor of Dublin 1595–1596, was condemned to the dungeons after exposing fraud in the parliamentary elections to the Irish House of Commons.

Miguel Barragán

Barragán was arrested at the hacienda of Santa Anna and confined in the dungeons formerly used by the Inquisition.

Monkey Hero

At the end of dungeons, similar to the Zelda series, there is what is known as a boss, the "leader" of the dungeon or the one you must defeat to complete it.

Osric

OSRIC, short for 'Old School Reference and Index Compilation': a project aiming to provide a copyright-free version of early editions of Dungeons and Dragons

Outland

The Outlands, an Outer Plane in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Owen K.C. Stephens

Stephens has done design work for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Wizards of the Coast), Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, EverQuest Role-Playing Game, The Black Company Roleplaying Game, The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game, Gamma World Sixth Edition, as well as Dungeons & Dragons material appearing in Dragon magazine and NeoExodus: A House Divided.

Piercer

The piercer appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual (1977).

Robert C. Stanley

Stanley also worked for other important paperback book publishers such as Bantam Books and Signet Books and also worked as an artist for cover or interior artwork for magazines such as Adventure, Argosy, Redbook, Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post.

Sahuagin

The first published version of the sahuagin appeared in the 1975 Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Blackmoor by Dave Arneson.

Sea of Dust

Sea of Dust (Greyhawk), a fictional desert in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Sharon, Wisconsin

Frank Mentzer, An American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for Dungeons & Dragons, currently lives in Sharon.

Sue Weinlein Cook

Sue Weinlein Cook has done editing work on many Dungeons & Dragons and other TSR and Wizards of the Coast game products from 1993-2002.

Suel

Suloise, a fictitious human race in Dungeons & Dragons

The Book of Marvelous Magic

AC4 - The Book of Marvelous Magic is a 76 page book by Frank Mentzer and Gary Gygax published in 1985 by TSR, Inc. It is an accessory to Dungeons & Dragons primarily for use with the non-advanced box set versions; an appendix describes how the items described can be used with the AD&D game.

The Dungeons of Torgar

The Dungeons of Torgar is the tenth book in the Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.

The Spoony Experiment

While playing Final Fantasy IV, he encountered the infamous line "You spoony bard!" leading to this becoming a joke with his other Dungeons and Dragons-playing friends.

Thornback

Phaerimm, a fictional species of creatures in Dungeons & Dragons

Vilnius Dungeons

The first uncovering of and expeditions into the abandoned dungeons were organised in the interwar period by students of Vilnius University.

Westport House

It was built by the Browne family in the 18th Century, on the site of an O'Malley castle which dungeons are still present today.

White Plume Mountain

Judge Mike Mearls commented on the ingenuity required to complete the adventure, describing it as "the puzzle dungeon to end all puzzle dungeons".

Whiting, Indiana

Patrick Lucien Price - video game designer and editor; worked on Dungeons & Dragons game.

Wizards of the Coast

They also publish novels based on games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings.


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