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Savage Tide
The ''Savage Tide'' Adventure Path (or simply ''Savage Tide'') is the third Adventure Path for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, published over twelve installments from October 2006 through September 2007 in ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon'' magazine. It begins in the city of Sasserine, just north of the city of Cauldron (Shackled City), Cauldron, which serves as the setting for the first Adventure Path, ''The Shackled City Adventure Path, Shackled City''. Story From the June 2006 promotional announcement in ''Dungeon Adventures'': [T]he ''Savage Tide'' Adventure Path [is] a 12-installment campaign designed to take characters from the heady days of first level all the way to the responsibilities of level 20. Running every month from issue #139 to the milestone ''Dungeon'' #150, the ''Savage Tide'' takes players on an ocean voyage that begins in the fecund southern jungles and leads deep into the heart of the treacherous Lower Planes. Setting The story nominally tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abyss (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the fantasy role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', an Outer Plane is one of a number of general types of planes of existence. They can also be referred to as ''godly planes'', ''spiritual planes'' or ''divine planes''. The Outer Planes are home to beings such as deities and their servants such as demons, celestials and devils. Each Outer Plane is usually the physical manifestation of a particular moral and ethical alignment and the entities that dwell there often embody the traits related to that alignment. The intangible and esoteric Outer Planes—the realms of ideals, philosophies, and gods—stand in contrast to the Inner Planes, which compose the material building blocks of reality and the realms of energy and matter. All Outer Planes are spatially infinite but are composed of features and locations of finite scope. Many of these planes are often split into a collection of further infinites called ''layers'', which are essentially sub-planes that represent one partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demogorgon (Dungeons & Dragons)
Demogorgon is a deity or demon associated with the underworld. Although often ascribed to Greek mythology, the name probably arises from an unknown copyist's misreading of a commentary by a fourth-century scholar, Lactantius Placidus. The concept itself can be traced back to the original misread term demiurge. Etymology The origins of the name ''Demogorgon'' are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek δημιουργόν (''dēmiourgón'', accusative case form of δημιουργός, 'demiurge') based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus (Jahnke 1898, Sweeney 1997, Solomon 2012). Boccaccio, in his influential ''Genealogia Deorum Gentilium'', cites a now-lost work by Theodontius and that master's acknowledged Byzantine source " Pronapides the Athenian" as authority for the idea that Demogorgon is the antecedent of all the gods. Art historian Jean Seznec c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Succubus (Dungeons & Dragons)
A succubus (plural succubi) is a type of demoness referenced in various works of fiction. Literature * Thomas Middleton's 1605 play ''A Mad World, My Masters'', the philandering Master Penitent Brothel is tempted by a succubus assuming the form of his illicit partner, using song and dance in a failed attempt to seduce him. * Honoré de Balzac's early 1800s short story " The Succubus" concerns a 1271 trial of a she-devil succubus in the guise of a woman, who, amongst other things, could use her hair to entangle victims. * Charles Williams's 1937 novel ''Descent into Hell'' portrays an academic who consciously rejects the potential affections of a real woman in favor of a physically identical but perfectly obedient and pliable succubus. * Richard Matheson's 1962 short story "The Likeness of Julie" portrays a teenage succubus named Julie (later adapted into the TV film ''Trilogy of Terror'') * Irving A. Greenfield's 1970 novel ''Succubus'' has the ancient demon hitching a ride on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
