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Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Gary Gygax.While Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. [1]
In the 19th-century tale of "Prince Lindworm" (also "King Lindworm") [20] from Scandinavian folklore, a "half-man half-snake" lindworm is born, as one of twins, to a queen, who, in an effort to overcome her childlessness, followed the advice of an old crone who instructed her to eat two onions. As she did not peel the first onion, the first ...
MC1 Monstrous Compendium, Volume One was published by TSR in 1989. [1] It was written by the TSR staff, with a cover by Jeff Easley, and interior illustrations by Jim Holloway, and came boxed with 144 loose-leaf pages and eight color cardstock dividers (each with a color painting on it) in a three-ring binder. [2]
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
Lachesis muta is the third longest venomous snake in the world, exceeded in length only by the king cobra and the black mamba. Weight in this species is estimated at an average of 3 to 5 kg (6.6 to 11.0 lb), somewhat less than the heaviest rattlesnakes (like the eastern diamondback rattlesnake ) or Bitis vipers (such as the Gaboon viper and ...
A snake character that is a pet to Rubee the snake charmer. Trowzer Yooka-Laylee: A snake character that going to support Yooka and Laylee by selling and teaching them new moves, for a fee of course. Noodle Snake Pass (video game) A coral snake who is the protagonist of a puzzle/platforming game on multiple platforms. Has a hummingbird friend ...
Bambra felt that the Bestiary of Dragons and Giants adds little to our knowledge of dragon and giant lore. It does not greatly expand the information already available concerning dragons and giants, but redefines it slightly and provides a ready source of adventures that can either be played as stand-alones or dropped into an ongoing campaign."
This edition of the D&D game includes its own version of giants, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977), including the hill giant, the stone giant, the frost giant, the fire giant, the cloud giant, and the storm giant; [15] these same giants also appear in the Expert Set (1981 and 1983), [16] [17] The mountain giant and the sea giant appear ...