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The Vistani are a nomadic ethnic group in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.They are based on depictions of the Romani people, and over time this depiction has been criticized as overly stereotyped and pejorative, and subject to some revisions in the D&D canon.
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [13] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...
The word is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning "back" or "again", and the word morphe, meaning "shape" or "form". Extreme anamorphosis has been used by artists to disguise caricatures, erotic and scatological scenes, and other furtive images from a casual spectator, while revealing an undistorted image to the knowledgeable viewer. [1]
[26] [27] Prior to the production of the film, Spielberg ran a Dungeons & Dragons session with the young cast members. [28] The Futurama film Bender's Game includes Dungeons & Dragons as a crucial plot device, in which the main characters end up in a fantasy realm after the game is played. The film was already in production upon Gygax's death ...
A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing . The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
A life class for adults at the Brooklyn Museum, under the auspice of the New York City WPA Art Project (1935). An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art.
The second version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set combines the idea of race and class; non-human races do not have classes. Hence, a character might be a (human) Cleric or else simply an "Elf" or "Dwarf". The Basic Set presented four human classes: Cleric, Fighter, Magic User, and Thief, and three demi-human classes: Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.
Designed by Ryo Mizuno and Miyuki Kiyomatsu, the Japanese answer to Dungeons & Dragons: Synnibarr (a.k.a. The World of Synnibarr) Craig McCracken Notorious for a nonsensical, poorly explained game-world and huge power-levels granted to beginning player characters Systems Failure: Palladium Books: Tales from the Floating Vagabond: Avalon Hill: 1991