dungeons and dragons (game)

Offers Dungeon Masters of all levels of experience advice, rules, and strategies for running adventures and campaigns in the paragon tiers of the role playing game "Dungeons and Dragons".

A comprehensive guide to acting as Dungeon Master in games of Dungeons and Dragons, covering the rules, adventures, campaigns, characters, nonplayer characters, rewards, and magic items, and includes a glossary, templates, and visual aids.

Presents new rules and character options, such as races, base classes, paragon paths, epic destinies, powers, magic items, weapons, armor, and equipment, and provides rules for adventuring, combat, and rituals.

Contains alphabetized profiles of nearly five hundred monsters in the game Dungeons and Dragons, covering level, size, origin, type, experience points, initiatives, senses, aura, hit points, defenses, resists, saving throws, speed, action points, attack powers, alignment, skills, ability scores, and healing surges.

The author describes how the 1970s game Dungeons and Dragons effected his teenage development and how millions of boys broke away from everything normal in order to become of part of the craze of fantasy role-playing associated with the game.

A guide to a variety of monsters--including gargoyles, vampires, mummies, skeletons, and more--that features illustrations and facts on physical characteristics, habitat, society, language, diet, attack methods, and best defenses for each entry.