The Rogues Gallery is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

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fantasy

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 role-playing game

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.

Contents

The Rogues Gallery was a supplement listing hundreds of pre-generated non-player character

Non-player character

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s for use by the Dungeon Master

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, including characters from all the standard first edition AD&D character classes

Character class (Dungeons & Dragons)

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, plus other characters such as sages, caravans, and city guards. The book also includes statistics for characters from Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax

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's original D&D campaign.

Publication history

The Rogues Gallery was written by Brian Blume

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 with Dave Cook

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 and Jean Wells, with a cover by Erol Otus

Erol Otus

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 and interior illustrations by Jeff Dee

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and Otus, and was published by TSR in 1980 as a 48-page book.