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Champions of Ruin

tabletop role-playing game supplement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5070097 ↗
Source-derived summary

Champions of Ruin is a hardcover accessory for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Contents

Champions of Ruin is a world setting supplement, detailing the role of evil in the Forgotten Realms setting.

Publication history

Champions of Ruin was published in May 2005, and was designed by Jeff Crook, Wil Upchurch, and Eric L. Boyd. Cover art was by Lucio Parillo, with interior art by Thomas M. Baxa, Wayne England, Jason Engle, Ralph Horsley, Warren Mahy, Raven Mimura, William O'Connor, Lucio Parillo, and Marc Sasso.

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The public source identifies “Champions of Ruin” as tabletop role-playing game supplement. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Champions, Ruin and tabletop.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Champions, Ruin and tabletop providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Champions of Ruin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.