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Fantasy Wargames are a form of Miniature wargaming that involves fantastical, non-realistic rules and items (such as magic). It eventually lead to other forms of roleplaying games, such as Dungeons and Dragons. 3 Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ...


The miniatures used represent troops, including fantasy races (elves, trolls, orcs, zombies etc.) and magic-using troops (wizards, psychics, witches, sorcerers, etc.), which distinguishes it from other miniture wargames which are usually historical in nature. A small forest elf (älva) rescuing an egg, from Solägget (1932), by Elsa Beskow An elf is a mythical creature of Germanic mythology which survived in northern European folklore. ... Trolls with an abducted princess (John Bauer, 1915) A troll is a fearsome member of a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavian folklore. ... ORC are also the initials of the Odonata Records Committee A comic fantasy orc. ... A zombie, at twilight, in a sugarcane field in Haiti A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. ... Gandalf, from The Lord of the Rings, is an example of a well-known, traditional literary wizard. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ... This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ...


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