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unusual facts about Plane (Dungeons



AC3D

The software is used by designers for modeling 3D graphics for games and simulations - most notably it is used by the scenery creators at Laminar Research on the X-Plane (simulator).

Agneta Sjödin

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

Assisted take-off

This allows the daughter craft to be designed with fewer weight and aerodynamic restrictions allowing for exotic configurations to be used or tested, for example the recent SpaceShipOne, and previously the Bell X-1 and other X-planes.

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.

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

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).

Graphsim Entertainment

Today, Graphsim is primarily a distributor, with their notable products being X-Plane, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force and the latest version of the F/A-18 franchise, F/A-18 Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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.

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja

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

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).

Pools of Darkness

These include Thorne's Cave, Kalistes' Land, a visit to then sleeping Moander's colossus body in Astral Plane, and finally Bane's Land itself in Acheron.

Portals in fiction

Places that a portal will link to include a different spot in the same universe (in which case it might be an alternative for teleportation); a parallel world (inter-dimensional portal); the past or the future (time portal); and other planes of existence, such as heaven, hell or other afterworlds.

Pre-Columbian period in Venezuela

Archeologists have discovered evidence of the earliest known inhabitants of the Venezuelan area in the form of leaf-shaped flake tools, together with chopping and planoconvex scraping implements exposed on the high riverine terraces of the Pedregal River in western Venezuela.

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 Dungeons of Torgar

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

The Shackled City Adventure Path

The adventures are designed to begin with first level characters and to end with characters at or near twentieth level, taking them through twelve distinct adventures that span basic dungeon crawls, urban adventures, political intrigue, and even extra-planar excursions.

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.

Thomas Bewick

This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the wood cut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain, in hard box wood, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.

Thornback

Phaerimm, a fictional species of creatures in Dungeons & Dragons

Tin Mine Falls

If we additionally assume that the image plane is perpendicular to the ground plane (an imaginary plane Tangential to the surface of the Earth), and that the waterfall flows on a plane that is parallel to the image plane, we can estimate the height by measuring the vertical separation of waterfall head and base in

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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