Dungeons & Dragons

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Dungeons & Dragons, commonly referred to as "D ' and ' D" or "DnD", is a table top Role-Playing Game, or RPG, developed in 1974. Currently, the game is produced by Wizards of the Coast, and is in an updated form of the third edition, version "3.5".

The game is most often played on a table top or desk, usually with some type of miniatures or figures as a visual reference for the in-game action. Players create characters, selecting them based on race, class, and a set of random attributes such as Strength, Intelligence, and Charisma. One person, called the Dungeon Master, or DM, manages the game, creating the world within which the game takes place, and controlling all non-player characters, or NPCs. Players, and NPCs, resolve their actions using a set of statistics determined by their attributes and various other factors and dice, most often a 20 sided die, or d20.

Die rolls are abbreviated by XdY, where X is the numbers of that die, and Y is (normally) the number of sides. The seven dice used are 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 90. The 90-sided die is a ten-sided die numbered 00, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. Other numbers used for Y are: 2, 3, and %. d2 is rolling the d6 and dividing by 3, d3 is the same except divided by 2; both times you round up. d% is found by rolling d10 and d90: except 10 on the d10 is 0, and 10+00 is 100.