Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D) is a paper-and-pencil role-playing game (RPG), published by Wizards of the Coast.
Description
Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons in the year 1974. It was first published by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997, when Peter Adkison acquired the rights.
It is normally played indoors with the participants seated around a tabletop. A typical Dungeons & Dragons game consists of an "adventure" in a fantasy world or "campaign setting". Typically, each player controls only a single character. The results of the character's choices and the overall storyline for the game are determined by the Dungeon Master (DM) according to the rules of the game and the DM's interpretation of those rules.
Many optional accessories are available to enhance the game, such as expansion rulebooks, pre-designed adventures and various campaign settings. Commercially published campaign settings are Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Eberron and Dark Sun. Pre-made adventures (previously known as "modules") have been published throughout the history of Dungeons & Dragons.
Since the original release in 1974, several editions of Dungeons & Dragons have been published, sometimes with major changes to the rulebooks.
Magic: The Gathering crossovers
Magic: The Gathering has been influenced by D&D since the release of the Legends set.
Cross-over products include:
D&D-inspired cards
The following cards were early cross-overs:
- Bag of Holding (Core Set 2020)
- Dungeon Master (Heroes of the Realm)
- Kharis & The Beholder (Heroes of the Realm)
- Sword of Dungeons & Dragons (HASCON 2017)
- Universal Solvent (Aether Revolt)
- Underdark Beholder (Mystery Booster test card)
Easter eggs:
- The art of Cartographer's Survey (Innistrad: Crimson Vow) features a D&D dungeon map.[1].
D&D products
- The Plane Shift series
- D&D Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
- D&D Mythic Odysseys of Theros
- D&D Unearthed Arcana: Mages of Strixhaven
- D&D Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
D&D Miniatures
- D&D Icons of the Realms: Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
- D&D Icons of the Realms: Mythic Odysseys of Theros
- Magic Unpainted Miniatures
- Magic: The Gathering Miniatures: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Magic products
- Secret Lair: Saturday Morning D&D
- Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Stranger Things
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
D&D themed sets are not planned to be a yearly product.[2]
Creatures and characters
The following Magic planeswalker types and creature types are crossovers from D&D:
- Planeswalkers
- Creatures
In-universe reprints
The following D&D reprints have appeared in regular Magic sets:
| Card | D&D set | Reprinted in |
|---|---|---|
| Campfire | Battle for Baldur's Gate | Commander Masters |
| Fiendlash | Forgotten Realms Commander | Commander Masters |
References
- ↑ Donato Giancola (November 4, 2021). "A lucky chance to revisit an old theme of a cartographer with maps.". Twitter.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 31, 2022). "Are D&D sets now a yearly thing?". Blogatog. Tumblr.