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Conan Against Darkness!
''Conan Against Darkness!'' is a 1984 adventure module for the first edition of the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game, set in the Hyborian universe of Robert E. Howard's character Conan the Barbarian. It is designed for four player characters at character level 10-14 and uses some minor rule variations in an attempt to recreate the setting's atmosphere. It was publicized as containing a "journey of epic proportions". Plot summary ''Conan Against Darkness!'' is an adventure that takes place while Conan was King of Aquilonia and features a battle against Thoth-Amon. The adventure requires the use of some variant rules specified in the publication. These include "Fear", a faster healing rate, and "Heroism". The publication includes four new monsters (Winged Gaunts, Crawler in the Dark, Serpent Folk, and Fire Guardians), several new magical items, and game statistics for the four suggested player characters - Conan, Pelias the Sorcerer, Nzinga the Amazon, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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CB and variants may refer to: Places * CB postcode area, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office * Cambodia (FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram CB) * Cape Breton (other) * Centura București, a ring road of Bucharest, Romania * Colegio Bolivar, an American school in Cali, Colombia * Colwyn Bay, Wales * Province of Campobasso, Italy * ČB – České Budějovice, Czech Republic People * Chris Bosh (born 1984), American basketball player * Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1906–1908, widely referred to by his surname initials Brands and enterprises * Carte Bancaire, a bank card brand * Christianssands Bryggeri, a Norwegian brewery * ScotAirways (IATA airline code CB) Business and financial terms * Capacity building, the process by which individuals and organizations obtain, improve, and retain the skills and knowledge needed to undertake their tasks * Certificatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Rolston
Ken Rolston is an American computer game and role-playing game (pen and paper), role-playing game designer best known for his work with West End Games and on the computer game series ''The Elder Scrolls''. In February 2007, he elected to join the staff of computer games company Big Huge Games to create a new role-playing game.: 13 February 2007 press release Rolston has a master's degree from New York University, and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has been a professional games designer since 1982. Tabletop role-playing games Ken Rolston spent twelve years as an award-winning designer of tabletop role-playing games. His credits include games and supplements for ''Paranoia (role-playing game), Paranoia'', ''RuneQuest'', ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'', ''Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', and ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Rolston was a ''Basic Role-Playing'' writer for Chaosium. Rolston had al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons & Dragons Modules
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette (from french ''oublier'' meaning to ''forget'') or bottle dungeon is a basement room which is accessible only from a hatch or hole (an ''angstloch'') in a high ceiling. Victims in oubliettes were often left to starve and dehydrate to death, making the practice akin to—and some say an actual variety of—immurement. Etymology The word ''dungeon'' comes from French ''donjon'' (also spelled ''dongeon''), which means "keep", the main tower of a castle. The first recorded instance of the word in English was near the beginning of the 14th century when it held the same meaning as ''donjon''. The proper original meaning of "keep" is still in use for academics, although in popular culture it has been largely misused and come to mean a cell or "oubliet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roleplaying Game
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GURPS Conan
''GURPS Conan'' is a sourcebook and a series of solo adventures for ''GURPS''. Publication history ''GURPS Conan'' was one of the earliest products from a licensed property produced by Steve Jackson Games. The company, after launching GURPS in 1986, acquired a Conan game license from Conan Properties International in 1988. The same year, Steve Jackson Games published a solo adventure titled ''GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River''. Only the following year, in 1989, saw light of day the ''GURPS Conan'' setting supplement: ''GURPS Conan, The World of Robert E. Howard's Barbarian Hero''. The core rulebook was written by Curtis M. Scott, with a cover by Kirk Reinert and illustrations by Butch Burcham, and was published by Steve Jackson Games as a 128-page book. Three other solo adventures followed this setting supplement, all of them also in 1989: ''GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast'', ''GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood'' and ''GURPS Conan the Wyrmslayer''. Timeline releases: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conan Role-Playing Game
The ''Conan Role-Playing Game'' was published by TSR, Inc. in 1985. Contents This boxed game was designed for players age 10 and up contained a full-color map, a 32-page rule book, a 16-page reference guide of talents, weaknesses, and charts, and a 48-page notebook about the land of Hyboria plus two 10 sided dice. Game mechanics The game's main rules are adapted from the ''Marvel Super Heroes (role-playing game), Marvel Super Heroes'' rules, a role-playing game first published by TSR in 1984 and mainly designed by Jeff Grubb, although David Cook (game designer), Zeb Cook brought some help, as stated by Grubb himself. The system refers D100 dice rolls to a resolution table. Mark Krawec, a member of the RPGnet community, recovered the system from the past in 2007, named it ZeFRS (Zeb's Fantasy Roleplaying System) and published a free PDF document where the game mechanics had been completely expurgated from any licensed Conan material. Two years later, in 2009, a ZeFRS paperback b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagine (AD&D Magazine)
''Imagine'' (printed under the long title ''Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine'') was a British monthly magazine dedicated to the first edition ''Advanced Dungeons and Dragons'' and ''Dungeons and Dragons'' role-playing game systems published by TSR UK Limited. History Shannon Appelcine explained, "TSR tried to horn in on the British magazine market in 1983 with ''Imagine'' magazine, but they folded it just two years later. Gary Gygax would much later claim that ''Imagine'' had usually been operated at a loss and was kept around mainly for its useful marketing of TSR's lines. ''White Dwarfs lead in Britain was pretty much unassailable." ''Imagine'' was published monthly between April 1983 and October 1985. The print run lasted for 31 issues (30 issues and one special edition) before its cancellation. Don Turnbull was cited as publisher and Paul Cockburn as assistant editor for the majority of the life of the publication. Neil Gaiman wrote film reviews for several issues of ''Imagi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David S
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Gray McCready
Anne C. Gray McCready (born July 7, 1960, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin) is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game from TSR, Inc., TSR. Early life Anne Gray grew up in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and went to the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater majoring in biology, switching to marketing after a year, and switching to English the following year, earning her Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in English in 1982. "My first job after college was working at a printing company, where I keylined ads, business cards, and menus, and got interested in graphic design." Career Gray "applied for a nice, normal job at TSR, Inc., TSR, as an Administrative Assistant with TSR's International Division, but I didn't get it. I did keep in touch with the company, and later that year I got another interview for a job as a Copy Editor. . . and I was hired." Although Gray was not yet familiar with the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Easley
Jeff Easley (born 1954) is an oil painter who creates fantasy artwork for role-playing games, comics, and magazines, as well as non-fantasy commercial art. Early life Easley was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky in 1954. He spent time drawing as a child, particularly creatures such as ghosts and monsters. "I watched lots of monster movies on the late show, and built every monster model kit I could get my hands on," he said. He attended high school in Nicholasville, and then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Murray State University in Kentucky. Career After Cynthia finished grad school, the couple moved to Massachusetts with some friends, where Easley began his career as a professional artist. "I did freelance work for Warren Publications, including covers and comic strips for ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'', and ''Vampirella'', and for Marvel Comics magazines, including covers for '' Savage Sword of Conan'' and ''Bizarre Adventures''. But my real income came from my job at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Butler
Jeff Butler (born February 26, 1958, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American illustrator and comic book artist. Butler worked with the art department of TSR, Inc. for 5 years, illustrating products for the '' Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game and the ''Marvel Super Heroes'' role playing game, as well as Dragonlance novels. Early life Jeff Butler was born in Madison, Wisconsin on February 26, 1958. He grew up playing sports, "But I was always drawing things when I was young. I was a mischievous little boy, and my mother used to stick me in the corner with paper and a pencil and tell me to draw to keep me quiet. Then came the comic books when I was a little older, much to the chagrin of my father. Mom thought the comic books were teaching me to read, but my father, who is a sportswriter for a Madison newspaper, thought they were no good for me." Butler elaborates on his comics pastime, "At first, I read all the DC Comics I could get my hands on, and then moved on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoth-Amon
"The Phoenix on the Sword" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in ''Weird Tales'' magazine in December 1932. The tale, in which Howard created the character of Conan, was a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story " By This Axe I Rule!", with long passages being identical. The Conan version of the story was republished in the collections '' King Conan'' (Gnome Press, 1953) and ''Conan the Usurper'' (Lancer Books, 1967). It has most recently been republished in the collections '' The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon'' ( Gollancz, 2001) and '' Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933)'' ( Del Rey, 2003). It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and details Conan foiling a plot to unseat him as king of Aquilonia. Plot summary A middle-aged Conan of Cimmeria tries to govern the turbulent kingdom of Aquilonia. Conan has recently seized the crown from King Numedides after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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