The Company of the Claw (Disambiguation)

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It’s possible that these were the same company, but it hasn’t been confirmed.

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Blackstaff (Disambiguation)

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Monkey (Disambiguation)

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  • monkey — an animal of the primate family
  • Monkey — a unique being

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Garth (Disambiguation)

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Words I Learned From D&D

Bear in mind that my first encounter with D&D was at age 6 or 7. I was already a reader, and D&D strongly encouraged me to read more, by providing interesting and/or challenging words to add to my vocabulary.

It’s not that I didn’t see these words anywhere else, or that I wouldn’t have learned them elsewhere, or even that D&D was my first exposure to these words. It’s that these words are found in D&D books and therefore playing D&D does illuminate these ideas. More pointedly, in my own experience, I saw these words multiple times and that meant I actually learned them, as opposed to skimming over each one in a book once and never seeing it again.

It’s great to figure out the meaning of a word from context in a story, but it’s even better to look it up and see all the possible meanings and usages. Your experience may vary, but I learned these words several years before they were taught in school… if they were taught at all.

This list is nowhere near complete… it’s just starting.

A

abjuration, adaptation, adventurer, alacrity, alchemist/alchemy, ampersand, amphibian, amphigory, antipathy, aphrodisiac, arbalest, artifact, artillery, artisan, assassin, astral, avatar, avian

B

bane, banshee, barbarian, beneficent, besiege, bestow, bookworm, bruin, buoyancy, burnished

C

cabal, caltrop, carrion, castellan, causality, cavalier, celerity, celestial, character, comeliness, compendium, conclave, conjuration, contingency, convocation, corbel, corridor, courtier, crossbow

D

decanter, defiler, deity, demi-, dexterity/dextrous, dimension/dimensional, dissension, divination, domination, dragon, druid, dungeon, dweomer, dwindling

E

ebon, efficacious, effulgent, elemental, embattled, enclave, encompassing, epuration, erstwhile, evoke/evocation, exacted/exacting, expeditious

F

falchion, feat, fencer/fencing, fetter, fledgeling, fortification, frugality, fugue, furtive

G

gage, gauntlet, geography, geyser, gibbet, glaive, glyph, gnome, graven, grounding, guardian, guisarme

H

halberd, hallucinatory, harrowing, hearth, hetaera, hierophant

I

idol, illusion/illusory, implosion, impudent, interdiction, invisibility, invoke/invocation

J

javelin

K

keening, kukri

L

licentious, lycanthrope/lycanthropy

M

malison, meld, mellifluous, meta-, metamorphose/metamorphosis, morale, mystic, mythology

N

necromancy, nimbus, numinous

O

oath, opportunist, orison

P

paladin, penultimate, pernicious, perpetual, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, pinnacle, polyglot, polymorph, portmanteau, primal, probability, proficiency, propitious, pugilist, pugnacious, puissance, putrefy/putrefaction

Q

quest

R

radiant, rally, ranger, ranseur, rapier, rapport, relic, rend, resound, reverent, riven, role, rube, rune

S

sanctuary, sanctum, scarab, scrimshaw, sculpture, sentinel, sequester, siege, sigil, simulacrum, solipsism, spawn, spell, sprite, summon

T

talisman, telekinesis, telepathy, terrain, thaumaturgy, threnody, tine, transmogrification, transmute

U

usurp, utterance

V

vermin, vigilance, viscid, voulge

W

ward, wrack

There was more to it, of course, than just building vocabulary. I read about mythology; by the time it was mentioned in school I knew as much about it as the teacher did. So it wasn’t just vocabulary I acquired… it was knowledge.

Lith (Disambiguation)

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At a Glance

  • lith — a monster
  • Lith — one of the Pirate Isles of the Inner Sea

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Earthspur (Disambiguation)

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Caftenor (Disambiguation)

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  • Caftenor — an island in the Korinn Archipelago
  • Caftenor — the port city on the isle of Caftenor

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Hark (Disambiguation)

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  • hark — the verb/noun
  • The Hark — a mysterious figure who has discovered that hiding out in a dungeon can get the place (and a nearby river) named after you
  • The Dungeon of the Hark — the current home of the Hark
  • Hark’s Finger — the remains of a fallen Netherese enclave; unrelated to the other Harks
  • The Hark River — the river that drains Highstar Lake; named after the Hark

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Tantulhor

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At a Glance

A metal occurring naturally in Baator —specifically Phlegethos, Malbolge, Maladomini, and Nessus— and nowhere else. It’s about the mass of iron, can hold an edge, and is hard enough to cut anything but stone.

Source

  • Nine Hells Revisited by Ed Greenwood; Dragon #91 page 29

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