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The book notes the success and acceptance of Eastern fantasy in the west - characterized by the acceptance of games like Final Fantasy and movies like Kill Bill - and attempts to capture this by incorporating elements of martial arts into a D&D campaign. Tome of Battle was written to give players a chance to play characters ' the genres of Far East action games and the 'typical' D&D game world,' in contrast to the standard 'knights and castles and dragons' that most of Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e was focused on.

2.4 Styles or Schools of the Sublime Way.

In the game Munchkin (card game) (expansion 3 'Clerical Erors') the Vorpal Blade is a treasure card. The unleash effect of this weapon is called Vorpal Slash, dealing more damage than the normal attack. In the Gameboy Advance RPG game Golden Sun, a sword called Elven Rapier can be found inside Bilibin Cave. Its appearance mimics the 'dicing' ability of the much more powerful Crissaegrim sword.

In the original Playstation game Castlevania Symphony of the Night, the Vorpal Blade is a single handed sword dropped by the Archer that 'Slices cleanly through enemies'. In Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East, the Pit Lord's ability Vorpal Sword means at least one creature of the opposing stack must die during an attack. In Baldur's Gate 2 computer game, the Vorpal Sword is composed of the shaft and blade taken from Githianki, grants a good chance to kill an enemy with one hit (called Vorpal hit).

In the computer game League of Legends, Vorpal Blade is an ability of the champion Shen, and Vorpal Spikes is an ability of the champion Cho'Gath.

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The Vorpal Sword appears in the graphic novel series Fables in which the sword has the mythical property of cutting through any known object Also seen in 'American Mcgee's Alice' and 'Alice Madness Returns'. In the novel Mirror, Graham Masterton explains that 'vorpal' means 'Victory Over Ruin, Pestilence And Lust'. This makes sense in that the poem's plot results in the hero carrying away the head of the Jabberwock. In the game Dungeons & Dragons, a Vorpal Sword is defined as a sword with the magical effect that it tends to cut off opponents' heads. Ĭarroll himself once wrote, 'I am afraid I can't explain 'vorpal blade' for you-nor yet 'tulgey wood.'' Taylor points out in his Carroll biography The White Knight that 'vorpal' can be formed by taking letters alternately from 'verbal' and 'gospel'. Some readers have imagined other properties the word could describe. It is commonly assumed to mean 'deadly' or 'sharp', but could also be referring to the material of which the sword is composed. The word 'vorpal' appears twice in the poem, which describes a young boy's quest to slay a monster called the Jabberwock: He took his vorpal sword in hand:Īnd later, One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.Īs with much of the rest of the poem's vocabulary, the reader is left to guess at the meaning of 'vorpal' from the context. Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads 'Jabberwocky'. Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass in 1871.