Wyvern (Dungeons & Dragons) aggressive, and able to lash with a sting-equipped tail. This edition of the "D&D" game included its own version of the wyvern, in the "Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set" (1981 & 1983). The wyvern was also later featured in the "Dungeons & Dragons Game" set (1991), the "Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia" (1991), and the "Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game" set (1994). The wyvern appears first in the "Monstrous Compendium" Volume One (1989), and are reprinted in the "Monstrous Manual" (1993). The Mercykiller wyrm, a relative of the wyvern for the Planescape campaign setting, appeared in "In the Cage: A
Westland Wyvern (and equally troubled) Blackburn Firebrand. Several second-line squadrons also received Wyverns around this time. Total production was 127 airframes with 124 aircraft completed, as the last three Eagle piston-engined airframes, VR138, -139, and -140, were never completed. The first carrier trials were carried out by the first pre-production Wyvern TF.2 aboard on 21 June 1950. Despite this, when the Wyvern S.4 entered service with 813 Naval Air Squadron in May 1953, it had not obtained clearance for carrier operations, this being obtained only in April 1954. The Wyvern was in service with the Fleet Air Arm from 1954 to 1958.