Q:Information: - Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" ("D&D") fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. Several years later, Greenwood brought the setting to the "D&D" game as a series of magazine articles, and the first Realms game products were released in 1987. Role-playing game products have been produced for the setting ever since, as have various licensed products including sword and sorcery novels, role-playing video game adaptations (including the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game to use graphics), and comic books. The Forgotten Realms is one of the most popular "D&D" settings, largely due to the success of novels by authors such as R. A. Salvatore and numerous role-playing video games, including "Pool of Radiance" (1988), "Eye of the Beholder" (1991), "Baldur's Gate" (1998), "Icewind Dale" (2000) and "Neverwinter Nights" (2002). - Gerald Brom (born March 9, 1965 in Albany, Georgia), known professionally as Brom, is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics. - Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by BioWare. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game, but financial difficulties led to it being taken over by Atari. It was released on Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002. BioWare later released a free Linux client in June 2003, requiring a purchased copy of the game to play. MacSoft released a Mac OS X port in August 2003. - The , abbreviated as PTCG or Pokemon TCG is a collectible card game, based on the Pokemon video game series, first published in October 1996 by Media Factory in Japan. In the US, it was initially published by Wizards of the Coast; Nintendo eventually took over publishing the card game alongside the video games in June 2003. - Ed Greenwood (born July 21, 1959) is a Canadian-born fantasy writer and the original creator of the "Forgotten Realms" game world. He began writing articles about the Forgotten Realms for "Dragon" magazine beginning in 1979, and subsequently sold the rights to the setting to TSR, the creators of the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game, in 1986. He has written many Forgotten Realms novels, as well as numerous articles and "D&D" game supplement books. - The Avatar Series, originally The Avatar Trilogy, is a series of fantasy novels in the "Forgotten Realms" setting, covering the event known as the Time of Troubles. - Lolth is a fictional goddess in the "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. Lolth ("Lloth" in the drow dialect), the Demon Queen of Spiders, is the chief goddess of drow elves. She is also known as the "Spider Queen" and the "Queen of the Demonweb Pits". - Baldur's Gate is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. It is the first game in the "Baldur's Gate" series and takes place in the Forgotten Realms, a high fantasy campaign setting, using a modified version of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" ("AD&D") 2nd edition rules. The game received critical acclaim and was credited for revitalizing the computer role-playing game genre. The game allows development of the player character through choice of companions, dialogue choices, exploration, and battle. "Baldur's Gate" uses a reputation system and rewards the player depending on the choices made in the game. - Pool of Radiance is a role-playing video game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1988. It was the first adaptation of TSR's "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" ("AD&D") fantasy role-playing game for home computers, becoming the first episode in a four-part series of "D&D" computer adventure games. The other games in the "Gold Box" series used the game engine pioneered in "Pool of Radiance", as did later "D&D" titles such as the "Neverwinter Nights" online game. "Pool of Radiance" takes place in the Forgotten Realms fantasy setting, with the action centered in and around the port city of Phlan. - Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, and is the seat of Dougherty County. Located in southwest Georgia, it is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. - War of the Spider Queen is a New York Times best - selling series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms universe published by Wizards of the Coast . The series contains six books focused on the drow and their principal deity Lolth . Each of the six novels in the series is written by a different author with veteran Forgotten Realms author R. A. Salvatore overseeing the project . Cover art for each book in the series was designed by Gerald Brom who has done other Forgotten Realms work including reprints of The Avatar Series . According to Salvatore , the idea for the series was that of his editor Philip Athans , who also wrote the fifth book of the series . Athans had to convince Salvatore to sign onto the project , and it was the idea that '' I could help some other writers get some much - needed exposure '' which won the author over . Salvatore and fellow authors Richard Baker , Thomas Reid , and Richard Lee Byers along with Athans and others then met in Seattle to compile the main overview of the storyline . Afterwards , Salvatore became the content editor , mostly ensuring that content within the Drow city of Menzoberranzan '' kept the place where I wanted it for future works . '' In September 2006 , Wizards of the Coast released the War of the Spider Queen series in two separate gift sets featuring Brom 's artwork on the exterior of the boxes . Graphic Design for the gift sets was done by Lisa Hanson and Matt Adelsperger Since the completion of The War of the Spider Queen , two series continuing the stories of certain characters have gone under development by authors involved in the original series . Thomas M. Reid , author of Insurrection , continued the story of the half - demons Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok in The Empyrean Odyssey , with its first installment entitled The Gossamer Plain being released in May 2007 . Book two entitled The Fractured Sky was released in November 2008 while the finale , The Crystal Mountain , in July 2009 . Lisa Smedman , who developed the character Halisstra Melarn heavily in... - Icewind Dale is a role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and originally published by Interplay Entertainment for Windows in 2000 and by MacPlay for OS X in 2002. It takes place in the "Dungeons & Dragons" Forgotten Realms campaign setting, and is based on the 2nd edition ruleset. The player begins the game by creating an adventuring party, which becomes enlisted as a caravan guard in the wake of strange events. As the story progresses, the player learns of a demonic feud that threatens the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale. - Queen of the Demonweb Pits ("Q1") is an adventure module for the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game written by David Sutherland. The "Q" in the module code is an abbreviation for "queen". The module, a sequel to the D series of modules, was novelized in 2001. - Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, the company popularized the collectible card game genre with "" in the mid-1990s, acquired the popular "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game by purchasing the failing company TSR, and experienced tremendous success by publishing the licensed "Pokemon Trading Card Game". The company's corporate headquarters are located in Renton, Washington in the United States of America. - Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959), who writes under the name R. A. Salvatore, is an American author best known for "The DemonWars Saga", his "Forgotten Realms" novels, for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden, and "Vector Prime", the first novel in the "Star Wars: The New Jedi Order" series. He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone and twenty-two of his titles have been "New York Times" best-sellers. - Star Wars: The New Jedi Order (or New Jedi Order or NJO) is a series of nineteen science fiction novels, published from 1999 to 2003, set in the "Star Wars" expanded universe. The series revolves around the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy 2126 years after the events depicted in "Return of the Jedi". The New Jedi Order was the restored and reformed Jedi organization, in the wake of the Great Jedi Purge and subsequent fall of the Galactic Empire. The Jedi Knights, reduced in number to only a handful, were slowly restored, primarily under the leadership of Luke Skywalker. Additional stories, generally published as e-book novellas (some published as recently as 2006) and comic books (as recent as 2010/2011), take the total number of published NJO-related stories to twenty-six. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'publication date'.
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war of the spider queen , 2002