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Bards have been included as a character class in the 5th Edition Player's Handbook. The 5th edition iteration of the bard emphasizes that "words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain." [7]
In 1994, Encyclopedia Magica Volume One, the first of a four-volume set, was published.The series lists all of the magical items published in two decades of TSR products from "the original Dungeons & Dragons woodgrain and white box set and the first issue of The Strategic Review right up to the last product published in December of 1993". [4]
Old-School Essentials is a retroclone [2] that does not try to change the spirit of the original B/X rules but does try to make the rules easier to read. [1] The first five Old-School Essentials books — Core Rules , Genre Rules , Cleric and Magic-User Spells , Monsters , and Treasures — re-organize all of the original rules into a much more ...
The Wand of Orcus in the original Monster Manual (1977).. The Wand of Orcus is a fictional magical weapon described in various Dungeons & Dragons media. Because of the popularity of Orcus as a villain within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, many different authors have written materials describing artifacts created by or associated with the character.
Corellon is included as a deity in the 5th Edition Player's Handbook (2014) where they are described as "androgynous". [1] The sourcebook Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018) has a chapter on elves which includes their origin story as creations of Corellon. [16] [17] This sourcebook also introduces the "blessed of Corellon" mechanic.
In episode 30 of the webcomic Order of the Stick (written by Rich Burlew), the party bard Elan encounters an illithid in its lair. The illithid opts not to consume Elan's brain due to the bard's stupidity, and so they start playing Scrabble instead. [65] Episode 31 makes a reference to the illithid's preferred diet. [66]
Kender are a type of fantasy race first developed for the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game published by TSR, Inc. in 1984. The first kender character was created by Harold Johnson as a player character in a series of role-playing adventures co-authored by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.
The ondes Martenot is unique among electronic musical instruments in its methods of control. [10] The ondes Martenot can be played with a metal ring worn on the right index finger. Sliding the ring along a wire produces "theremin-like" tones, generated by oscillator circuits using vacuum tubes, [2] or transistors in the seventh model. [11] [12]