Dungeons & Dragons (album)

Dungeons & Dragons is a studio album by Midnight Syndicate, released August 12, 2003 by Entity Productions. The album is designed as a soundtrack to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and was produced by Midnight Syndicate at the request of Wizards of the Coast, the company which owns the rights to the Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Midnight Syndicate were approached by game designers at a gaming convention where they had set up stall, and they agreed to produce the album.

After an initial meeting with Wizards of the Coast, the two members of Midnight Syndicate—Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka—were left to write and produce the album themselves. They went their separate ways and produced tracks independently of one another, but came back together to arrange the album and master the tracks. The album was a change in style for Midnight Syndicate, because most of it had a fantasy feel, whereas their earlier works had been almost entirely horror-based. Artwork within the album booklet came from Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks, including works from prominent game designers such as Skip Williams. The album was well received by Wizards of the Coast, with positive reviews from music critics and the gaming community. It is reputedly the only official Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack.

Dungeons & Dragons-related products

The Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game has spawned many related products, including magazines, films and video games.

Magazines

In 1975, TSR began publishing The Strategic Review. At the time, role-playing games were still seen as a subgenre of the wargaming industry, and the magazine was designed not only to support D&D and TSR's other games, but also to cover wargaming in general. In short order, however, the popularity and growth of D&D made it clear that the game had not only separated itself from its wargaming origins, but had launched an entirely new industry unto itself. The following year, after only seven issues, TSR cancelled The Strategic Review and replaced it in 1976 with The Dragon (later Dragon Magazine).

Although Dragon Magazine was originally designed to support the role-playing industry in general, it has always been primarily a house organ for TSR's games with a particular focus on D&D. Most of the magazine's articles provide supplementary material for the game, including new races, classes, spells, traps, monsters, skills, and rules. Other articles will provide tips and suggestions for players and DMs. The magazine has also published a number of well-known, gamer-oriented comic strips over the years, including Wormy, SnarfQuest, Yamara, Knights of the Dinner Table, Nodwick, Dork Tower, and The Order of the Stick.

Dungeon

A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette is a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.

Etymology

The word dungeon comes from Old French donjon (also spelled dongeon), which in its earliest usage meant a "keep", the main tower of a castle. The first recorded instance of the word in English was near the beginning of the 14th century when it held the same meaning as donjon. Though it is uncertain, both dungeon and donjon are thought to derive from the Middle Latin word dominio, meaning "lord" or "master".

In French, the term donjon still refers to a "keep", and the term oubliette is a more appropriate translation of English dungeon. Donjon is therefore a false friend to dungeon (for instance, the game Dungeons & Dragons is titled Donjons et Dragons in its French editions).

Dungeons 2

Dungeons 2 is a strategy/simulation video game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media. It has been released on DVD and on the Steam digital distributor April 24, 2015. It is the sequel to Dungeons.

Gameplay

Unlike its predecessor, Dungeons 2 is a more direct homage to Dungeon Keeper. You still play as the Ultimate Evil, but now as a disembodied spirit after his defeat by heroes of the Overworld, you are forced to rely on controlling your minions with the Hand of Terror. You hire minions from a portal up to a population limit, who have names, and can gain levels in both production and combat, and be trained into upgraded versions. Minions have specific needs that have to be met, such as pay, thirst, admiration or boredom - if they don't get what they want, they will go on strike and refuse to obey your commands. The game now allows you to slap your workers, grab minions and drop them where you wish, or drop resources such as gold, mana, barrels or boxes. The greatest change is how you can now enter the Overworld through specific cave exits - the same that heroes use to raid your dungeon. On the Overworld the game controls switches to a more direct Real Time Strategy, with direct mouse-click control of your units, multiple selections and hotkeys to abilities. As you destroy the holdings of the heroes, you not only stop their raids on your dungeon, but transform the land into evil landscape. Your ultimate goal is usually the destruction of a castle, but there are other separate dungeons holding quests too.

List auf Sylt

List auf Sylt (known as List until 31 December 2008) is the northernmost municipality in Germany, located on the North Sea island of Sylt close to Denmark in the district of Nordfriesland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Etymology

List derived from the Middle Low German Liste (ledge, bar or edge).

History

List was originally a Danish settlement. It was first mentioned in 1292 (Lystum). The original village was destroyed by the great flood of 1364. The settlement was rebuilt further east from the previous location. In the mid-15th century, a church named St. Jürgen was mentioned. In a treaty of 1460, Schleswig and Holstein were linked to the Danish crown, but List remained part of the royal enclaves, small areas of the Kingdom of Denmark situated within the Duchy of Schleswig, but directly controlled by the Danish king.

From the 16th century, the people of List mostly made a living from Oyster farming, raising sheep and collecting and selling gull eggs. At the time, List was an important protective anchorage. In 1644, a Swedish-Dutch fleet of 26 ships commanded by Admiral Thijssen was attacked in the Lister Tief and defeated by Danish ships commanded by king Christian IV of Denmark. The anchorage north of today's town was named Königshafen to honour this event.

Nine Dragons

Nine Dragons may refer to:

Monsters!

"Monsters!" is the first segment of the fifteenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot

Toby Michaels and his father are monster fanatics and Toby's room is full of monster movie memorabilia. When a new neighbor moves in, Toby goes next door to see if there are any children to play with. He meets the neighbor, Emile Bendictson, who notices Toby's monster interest and his vast collection through the window. In the course of the conversation, Emile reveals that he is a vampire, but Toby does not believe him because Emile is outside and it is still daylight. Emile just laughs it off, but Toby goes home to tell his tale to his parents. They, of course, dismiss it too.

Toby decides to spy on Emile, who has enough strength to lift the front end of his car while polishing it. Toby gets caught by Emile and tries to protect himself with garlic and a crucifix. Emile laughs and tells him that most of what he has read about vampires is not accurate. To illustrate this, Emile treats the boy to a garlic-filled Italian dinner. Emile tells Toby he wishes to just live out the rest of his days. Later, Toby goes to Emile's house and finds hospital bags of blood in the bottom of a closet. Then Toby begins to get sick, which his parents think is a case of the flu.