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The player characters are sent to another plane and trapped in a labyrinth known as the Demonweb, and must escape the web and defeat Lolth in her lair to return home. [ 4 ] The Q1 module was the first to offer a glimpse into the Abyss, home to the D&D race of demons .
"The Quest for Saint Aquin" is a science fiction short story by American writer Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), originally published in 1951 in New Tales of Space and Time. "The Quest for Saint Aquin" was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before ...
Beowulf is the earliest surviving piece of Anglo-Saxon literature to feature a dragon, and it is possible that the poet had access to similar stories from Germanic legend. [3] Secular Germanic literature and the literature of Christian hagiography featured dragons and dragon fights. [ 4 ]
During 877, the 20-year-old Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg arrives at King Alfred of Wessex's court to proclaim the defeat of the forces of Danish chieftain and warrior Ubba Lothbrokson, as well as his killing of Ubba himself in single combat, only to find that his enemy Ealdorman Odda the Younger has lied, denying he had any part in the great victory.
Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron is a 5-volume, 1,800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs. An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1820. In ...
Title Series title First published ISBN Ghostwriter Illustrator 1: Ferno the Fire Dragon: Series 1: Where It All Began 2007: ISBN 978-1-846-16483-5: Stephen Cole: Tristan Lewis
Encounters in this adventure include a village populated by adventurers, and a cloud giant living in a small castle, before the party reaches the lair of the Shadow Lord. [ 1 ] In the second adventure, The Halls of Drax Tallen , the Shadow Lord returns with his undead servants looking to find another magic item to give him significantly greater ...
The Book of Lairs contains a series of one- and two-page adventures centered around various Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game monsters. [5] There are more than sixty short scenarios, indexed by type of monster and terrain, designed to added to campaigns or other adventures.