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Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica
''Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica'' is a sourcebook that details the ''Ravnica'' campaign setting for the 5th edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game published in November 2018. The world of Ravnica was originally created for the ''Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game and first appeared in the card set ''Ravnica: City of Guilds'', which was released in 2005. It is a high-magic world with a loose Slavic flavor, and features a single city which spans the entire planet that is controlled by ten competing guilds of different ideologies. Contents ''Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica'' is a 256-page campaign and adventure guide for using the ''Ravnica'' setting, from the collectible card game ''Magic: The Gathering'', in the 5th edition. The book includes a ninety page overview of "the ten guilds of Ravnica along with the Tenth District where most of the guilds operate. There's also nearly 40 pages dedicated to building adventures in Ravnica that include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''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 archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magali Villeneuve
Magali Villeneuve (born 1980) is a French illustrator, freelance fantasy artist, and fantasy author. Her art has been used for official games and products set in many large fantasy universes and franchises, including Magic: The Gathering, A Song of Ice and Fire, Star Wars, Warhammer, The Lord of the Rings, and Call of Cthulhu. Early life, education, and family Villeneuve was born in Bordeaux, France in 1980. She did not attend school to be an artist; instead, she is completely self-taught. Today, she lives in Bruyères with her husband. Career Villeneuve began illustrating professionally in 2006. As she did not receive any formal artistic training, her first commissions were for book covers from small publishers. After reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, her "goals changed": she abandoned her ambition to work as a Disney animator in favor of fantasy illustrations. Discovering one day in a library that Fantasy Flight Games published a book of A Song of Ice and Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Friday (shopping)
Black Friday is a colloquial term for the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight or even on Thanksgiving. Some stores' sales continue to Monday ("Cyber Monday") or for a week ("Cyber Week"). Black Friday occurs on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Black Friday has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.; ShopperTrak, Press Release, (November 16, 2010).''E.g.,'' Etymology For centuries, the adjective "black" has been applied to days upon which calamities occurred. Many events have been described as "Black Friday", although the most significant such event in American history was the Panic of 1869, which occurred when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk took advantage of their connections with the Grant Administrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. The magazine was founded by bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ... Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins. The Origins Award is commonly referred to as a Calliope, as the statuette is in the likeness of the muse of the same name. Academy members frequently shorten this name to "Callie". History Originally, the ''Charles S. Roberts Awards'' and the Origins Awards were one and the same. Starting with the 1987 awards, the Charles S. Roberts were given separately, and they moved away from Origins entirely in 2000, leaving the Origins Awards as a completely separate system. In 1978, the awards also hosted the 1977 ''H. G. Wells awards'' for role-playing games and miniature wargaming. Categories The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: ''Best Professional Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blind Box
, also called , is a trademark of Bandai. Among the variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys that originated in the 1960s, it became popular in Japan and elsewhere. "Gashapon" is onomatopoeic from the two sounds "gasha" (or "gacha") for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and "pon" for the toy capsule landing in the collection tray. "Gashapon" is used for both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them. Popular capsule toy manufacturers include Tomy, which uses the trademark for their capsule machines, and Kaiyodo. In many countries including Japan, China, United States and the United Kingdom, "Gashapon" is a registered trademark of Bandai. The model of capsule toy has been adapted digitally into numerous ''gacha'' video games, such as mobile phone games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). Description ''Gashapon'' machines are similar to the coin-operated toy vending machines seen outside grocery stores and other retailers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilds Of Ravnica
''Guilds of Ravnica'' is the 79th ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansion; while it is not part of a block, this set is functionally the first part of a Ravnica focused storyline set on the plane of Ravnica. It was released on October 5, 2018. Setting The ''Guilds of Ravnica'' and '' Ravnica Allegiance'' sets each focus on five out of the ten Ravnica guilds and the shared storyline creates the foundation for the story in the ''War of the Spark'' set. On this story design, Mark Rosewater highlighted that they wanted the Bolas Arc to "end with a big dramatic event" which required getting players to care that this event was occurring on Ravnica. Rosewater wrote that "once we knew that the year was two normal guild sets followed by an event set, the Creative team was able to start working on the fine details of the story. The first two sets would take place mostly while the events of ''Ixalan'' and ''Dominaria'' were going on, which meant the Gatewatch would be busy elsewhere. These two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Mearls
Michael Mearls is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction. He was the senior manager for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' research and design team. He co-led design for the 5th edition of the game. He also worked on the '' Castle Ravenloft'' board game, and various compendium books for 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Education Mearls is an alumnus of Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, and became known for a satiric letter to the campus paper. Career Mearls wrote the adventure ''To Stand on Hallowed Ground/Swords Against Deception'' (2001) for Fiery Dragon Productions and the last product from Hogshead Publishing, a ''Warhammer'' adventure titled ''Fear the Worst'' (2002) that Hogshead released for free on the internet. He also designed the game ''Iron Heroes'' (2005) for Malhavoc Press. In June 2005, Mearls was hired as a designer by Wizards of the Coast; he came to Wizards through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zendikar
The Zendikar block is a '' Magic: The Gathering'' block consisting of the sets ''Zendikar'' (October 2, 2009), ''Worldwake'' (February 5, 2010), ''Rise of the Eldrazi'' (April 23, 2010). The eponymous setting is a vast, untamed wilderness, whose few bastions of civilization exist primarily for outfitting treasure-seeking expeditions to distant locales. Colossal ancient octahedral stones called "hedrons" float in the sky (hedrons are the expansion symbols for all three blocks). A phenomenon known as "the Roil" causes frequent geological upheaval as it sweeps across the land. Unlike the previous two blocks, there is no multicolored theme (in fact, every colored card in the set is monocolored). Instead, the themes ''Zendikar'' and ''Worldwake'' revolve around lands, and a theme of an adventure or quest. ''Rise of the Eldrazi'', while part of the Zendikar block creatively and for the sake of constructed tournament rules, is unique mechanically and is designed to be drafted on its ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaladesh
''Kaladesh'' is a ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansion block consisting of the sets ''Kaladesh'' and ''Aether Revolt''. The block debuted with the release of ''Kaladesh'' on September 30, 2016. The block is set on the plane of Kaladesh, the original home of planeswalker Chandra Nalaar, and features an emphasis on artifacts, their creators and the magical aether which powers them. Plot The block focuses on a Steampunk aesthetic, with the steam replaced by the powerful material aether. The Gatewatch go to Chandra Nalaar's home world, the titular plane of Kaladesh, where she finds her mother (presumed dead) and almost kills Tezzeret. Tezzeret later kidnaps Rashmi, winner of the famous Inventor's Fair, and begins a dastardly plot to control the ruling Consulate. With the Consulate imprisoning inventors and confiscating their devices following the Fair, tensions between the populace and the government reach a boiling point, as depicted in ''Aether Revolt''. Mechanics On August 25, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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