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  2. Eberron - Wikipedia

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    Eberron is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game.The game is set primarily on the continent of Khorvaire following a vast destructive war. . Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional D&D elements and races within a differently toned setting; Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies ...

  3. Star Frontiers - Wikipedia

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    Star Frontiers is a space opera role-playing game that is set near the center of a spiral galaxy (the setting does not specify whether the galaxy is our own Milky Way ). A previously undiscovered quirk of the laws of physics allows starships to jump to "The Void", a hyperspatial realm that greatly shortens the travel times between inhabited ...

  4. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - Wikipedia

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    Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Gary Gygax. While Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. [1] It takes place on a downed spaceship; the ship ...

  5. List of fictional doomsday devices - Wikipedia

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    The special chemicals in the warhead reacted in the planet's core, destabilizing the planet. Mass Shadow Generator (EU): Used the gravity of a planet to create a quantum singularity, de-stabilizing the planet. Eclipse-class dreadnought (EU): A Super Star Destroyer armed with a less-powerful version of the Death Star superlaser.

  6. Scientists find Earth-like planet that could be home to alien ...

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    The distance separating the planet and its star is just 7% of the distance between Earth and the Sun, and the planet receives 1.6 times more energy from its star than Earth does from the Sun.

  7. Extrasolar planets in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The majority of extrasolar planets in fiction are inhabited by native species, and humans are variously depicted as being integrated into or remaining apart from such alien ecosystems. Some fictional planets are described as orbiting real stars; a 2024 article in the Journal of Science Communication analysed a sample of 142 fictional exoplanets ...

  8. Illithid - Wikipedia

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    Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008–2014) The mind flayer appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2008). Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (2014–present) The mind flayer appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2014). Additional information about the mind flayers is found in Volo's Guide to Monsters (2016). The information ...

  9. Star Trek: The Role Playing Game - Wikipedia

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    Star Trek: The Role Playing Game (1983) has a tactical combat system in which battles are simulated using a square grid, and is based on the FASA board game Grav-Ball (1982). [1] : 120. The game was published as a boxed set with a 128-page book, an 80-page book, and a 56-page book, two counter sheets, and dice.