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Werebat: Human with the ability to change into a bat-like form, appears in modern fiction. [4] [5] Werecoyote: Human with the ability to change into a coyote form comparable to a werewolf, [6] appears in modern fiction. [7] [8] [9] [6] It has been associated with America. [6]
Fish-shaped door handle from Germany, an example of a zoomorphic artwork. The word zoomorphism derives from Ancient Greek: ζῶον, romanized: zōon, lit. 'animal' and Ancient Greek: μορφή, romanized: morphē, lit. 'form; shape'. In the context of art, zoomorphism could describe art that imagines humans as non-human animals. [1]
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 ...
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
It debuted in Dungeons & Dragons. It also has a counterpart in the form of the Liontaur from the Quest for Glory video games. Wereape - Half-man, half-ape. They have been featured in Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms and The Wereworld Series. They come in different varieties. Wolftaur – Half-man, half-wolf. It debuted in Dungeons & Dragons.
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
The planes of existence beyond the standard worlds of the Dungeons & Dragons game, most detailed in the Planescape setting. Manual of the Planes: 1987: G N V Prydain: Lloyd Alexander: The country of The Chronicles of Prydain, consisting of five children's novels and assorted short stories. The Book of Three: 1964: N F Rifts: Kevin Siembieda
Role-playing games of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Dungeons & Dragons, generally used random numbers generated by dice rolls to assign statistics to player characters. In 1978, Jackson designed a new character generation system for the microgames Melee and Wizard that used a point-buy system: players are given a fixed number of points with ...