Oriental Adventures is one of two hardback books produced as supplements for Dungeons & Dragons. These accessory take the game away from the traditional Arthurian swords and sorcery and into the Far East, as alluded to by its name. A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ... Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. ... Far East is an inexact term often used for East Asia and Southeast Asia combined, sometimes including also the easternmost territories of Russia, i. ...

Oriental Adventures was published in 1985 by TSR, Inc. for the AD&D 1st edition, and was set in a land called Kara-Tur. It is a 144 page book written by Gary Gygax with David Cook and Francois Marcela-Froideval. Four supporting modules under the Oriental Adventures name were produced, but from 1988 Kara-Tur was placed in the Forgotten Realms and additional material was released under that brand, rather than the Oriental Adventures banner. This article is about the year. ... TSR, Inc. ... Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by Gary Gygax, David Cook and François Marcela-Froideval detailed in 1985s Oriental Adventures for the First Edition Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. ... Ernest Gary Gygax, 2004 Ernest Gary Gygax (born July 27, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, son of a Swiss immigrant father and an American mother whose family came to North America circa 1642) is best known as the author of the well known fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D... The Forgotten Realms Second Edition logo. ...

Oriental Adventures (ISBN 0-7869-2015-7) by James Wyatt was published in October 2001 by Wizards of the Coast, the current owners of Dungeons & Dragons, as a supplement for the V3.0 rules. The book includes 5 new races, 5 new classes, over 25 new prestige classes, 100 new spells, and 75 new monsters. The featured campaign setting of this edition is Rokugan of Legend of the Five Rings, acquired by Wizards of the Coast in their purchase of the Five Rings Publishing Group. James Wyatt is a game designer and a former United Methodist minister. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair. ... Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ... Rokugan is the fictional empire which is the main power in the Legend of the Five Rings setting, the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game and Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, both from Alderac Entertainment Group. ... Legend of the Five Rings (often abbreviated L5R) is a fictional setting created by the Five Rings Publishing Group in 1995, and now under the control of Alderac Entertainment Group. ... Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ... In 1996, Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA divested themselves of their joint operating venture, and created Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG). ...