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The 18 pages that link to Dungeons & Dragons, each with the reason it gives.

• J. R. R. TolkienRelated: Its early fantasy vocabulary and creatures drew on Tolkien alongside other sources.

• Role-playing gameBroader topic: Its publication helped establish the modern tabletop role-playing game form.

• WorldbuildingBroader topic: Its campaign settings show how maps, histories, factions, and rules serve ongoing play.

• Fantasy literatureBroader topic: It translated fantasy tropes into a shared system of characters, spells, and adventures.

• Role-playing video gameRelated: Its rules and fantasy adventures strongly influenced early computer role-playing games.

• Sword and sorceryRelated: Its adventures draw on the genre’s treasure-seeking heroes, monsters, and perilous dungeons.

• Tabletop role-playing gameBroader topic: Its publication established the modern commercial form of the hobby.

• Role-playingBroader topic: Its publication helped establish the modern tabletop role-playing game.

• HasbroBroader topic: The game is a flagship property of Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast division.

• Experience pointBroader topic: Its early editions helped establish experience points as a way to reward adventuring.

• Miniature paintingRelated: Painted figures can represent player characters, monsters, and other game pieces.

• Stranger ThingsRelated: The children use its monsters and vocabulary to interpret unfamiliar threats.

• Gary GygaxBroader topic: Gygax’s best-known creation established many conventions of fantasy role-playing.

• Will WrightRelated: Wright has cited the game’s imaginative, player-directed play as an influence on his design thinking.

• Live-action role-playing gameRelated: Its character-based fantasy play and campaign culture helped inspire early live-action role-playing.

• The Elder ScrollsRelated: The video game series adapts role-playing conventions that tabletop games helped popularize.

• History of fantasyRelated: It carried fantasy conventions into interactive play and shaped later genre fiction.

• Jack VanceRelated: Its magic system borrowed the term “Vancian magic” from The Dying Earth.