Information: - Jolly Randall Blackburn is best known as the creator of the comic strip, "Knights of the Dinner Table". - Ontario is a city located in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire region, it lies just east of the Los Angeles county line and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 163,924, up from 158,007 at the 2000 census, making it the county's fourth most populous city after San Bernardino, Fontana, and Rancho Cucamonga. - The Five Rings Publishing Group ( FRPG ) was formed as a spin - out of Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA . - Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine "Shadis" (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Awards for "Best Professional Gaming Magazine"). - The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins. - A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill. - A role-playing game (RPG and sometimes roleplaying game) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. - Shadis was an independent gaming magazine that published articles on role-playing games. Started by Jolly Blackburn, it began as an independent gaming fanzine in 1990, and was later transformed into a quality small-press magazine in 1993. Published by Alderac Entertainment Group, each issue contained a variety of articles covering many different aspects of role-playing game systems and genres. The series included game reviews, adventures, fiction, maps, gaming advice, and cartoons. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'five rings publishing group' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - area - board game - character - city - comic - comic strip - county - empire - entertainment - fair - fanzine - formal system - game - group - industry - line - los angeles - magazine - narrative - part - process - publisher - quality - role - series - set - strategy - system - variety - work - year
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Information: - Roy William Thomas, Jr. (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's "X-Men" and "Avengers", and DC Comics' "All-Star Squadron", among other titles. - A swashbuckler is an heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword and chivalric ideals. The archetype also became common as a film genre. - Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy generally characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent conflicts. An element of romance is often present, as is an element of magic and the supernatural. Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramatic, focus mainly on personal battles rather than world-endangering matters. Sword and sorcery commonly overlaps with heroic fantasy. - Red Sonja is a fictional character, a sword-and-sorcery comic-book heroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially based on Robert E. Howard's own creation 'Red Sonya of Rogatino' , a female swashbuckler from his 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" and to a certain degree also based on Howard's character Dark Agnes de Chastillon. - Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. - Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including "Conan the Barbarian" and "Conan the Destroyer"), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in "Weird Tales" magazine. - Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company. - '' The Shadow of the Vulture '' is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard , first published in The Magic Carpet Magazine , January 1934 . The story introduces the character of Red Sonya of Rogatino , who later became the inspiration for the popular character Red Sonja , archetype of the chainmail - bikini clad female warrior . Unlike Howard 's better - known fantasy work , '' The Shadow of the Vulture '' is historical fiction , set in the 16th century . It uses the career of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ( also known as Sultan Suleiman I ) , the aftermath of the Battle of Mohacs ( 1526 ) and the later Siege of Vienna of 1529 as a backdrop for imaginary characters and events . The character 's name may have been inspired by Sonia Greene , a fellow author and one - time wife of H.P. Lovecraft , and friend of Howard 's . After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'the shadow of the vulture' exhibits the relationship of 'genre'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - action - adventure - cartoon - comic - comic book - fantasy - fiction - heroic fantasy - literature - romance - short story - superhero - sword and sorcery - video
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