A typical Dungeons & Dragons game consists of an ' adventure ', which is roughly equivalent to a single story.

* more than somewhat ( or " no little, and quite some "); this phrase was so typical that it was used as the title of one of his short story collections

Examples of this type are the Malory Towers stories, the St Clare's series, and the Naughtiest Girl books and are typical of the times — many comics of the day also contained similar types of story.

Many gags centre around how easily he is manipulated by his executive producer, the most typical case being when Mike refuses to present a story and then is convinced to run it by an appeal to his supposed fearlessness or journalistic integrity.

Many of the smaller buildings from this time are typical Scanian: two story urban houses that show a strong Danish influence.

The chronicler related this story ( a typical medieval allegory ) as follows:

This is a typical example of Anderson's frequent motif of a tragic conflict — a story with no villains at all, with all protagonists having the best of good intentions and still forced into bitter conflict.

" Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common " in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed " and cites an example from a study of shamanism by Mircea Eliade of an eight-legged foal from a story of a Buryat shaman.

A typical shaggy dog story occurs in Mark Twain's book about his travels west, Roughing It.

A common story is that Queen Victoria having been saluted by a naval individual with a dirty palm, decreed the sailors of the fleet would salute palm down, palm rotated 90 degrees of a typical salute with the palm now pointing towards the member's shoulder.

A typical wuxia story features a young male protagonist who experiences a tragedy such as losing his loved ones.

The following is a list of skills and abilities a typical fighter or martial artist in a wuxia story might possess:

A typical version of the story is given by this quote:

" Damon Knight found the novel " a typical Heinlein story.

The story is, in many ways, fairly typical of Heinlein's work in this vein: He was working hard to present Life Off Earth in a positive light, in hopes of luring humanity into investing in the Space Program, which was one of his major interests.

* Juan Sablazo: The typical conman who puts up a sob story or a good excuse in order to borrow money and never pays it back.

A typical story is reported by Abraham Geiger, who formed Ettlinger's acquaintance as a student in 1829.

The typical caper story involves one or more crimes ( especially thefts, swindles, or occasionally kidnappings ) perpetrated by the main characters in full view of the reader.

Although Capricorn One is thematically a typical 1970s government-conspiracy thriller with similarities to Hyams's subsequent film Outland, the story was inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding the Apollo Moon landings.

In 1996, C & E Inc., a Taiwanese software company, released an RPG video game for Sega Genesis, entitled Xin Qigai Wangzi ( literally New Beggar Prince ), which featured a story largely inspired by the book, but adding fantastical elements such as magic, monsters, and other typical RPG themes.

), and an equally rich group of themes typical of lyrical poetry of erotic inspiration adopted by mystical literature ( the torment of love, impossible union, beauty of the loved one, stereotypes of the love story as weakness, crying, separation ).

In a typical story, the villains are after McDuck's fortune or his Number One Dime ; another common theme is a race after some sort of treasure.

In his City of God 18. 42, while repeating the story of Aristeas with typical embellishments, Augustine adds the remark, " It is their translation that it has now become traditional to call the Septuagint " ... omitted ... Augustine thus indicates that this name for the Greek translation of the scriptures was a recent development.

The story of Cristina Bazán was the typical story of Cinderella, where the poor and good girl ( Cristina ) suffers from the mistreatings of her stepmother and sisters, and finally found the love of the " handsome " and rich guy ( Rodolfo Alcantara ).

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

To cater to this type of customer, as well as full-time vegetarians, the menu of a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant usually shows no difference from a typical Chinese or far-Eastern restaurant, except that in recipes originally made to contain meat, a chicken flavoured soy or wheat gluten might be served instead.

Since such life utilised strong nuclear forces instead of electromagnetic interactions, it was posited that life might function millions of times faster than typical on Earth.

Furthermore, unforeseen side effects of ion propulsion might in some way interfere with typical scientific experiments, such as fields and particle measurements.

This can be quite different from the way a typical user might traverse documents on the Web.

Something might be a kludge if it fails in corner cases, but this is a less common sense as such situations are not expected to come up in typical usage.

A typical snekkja might have a length of, a width of, and a draught of only.

For example, a single typical microinstruction might specify the following operations:

A typical exterior wooden Door might be made out of two layers of oak planks.

A typical closed game session might involve one to two dozen players, although some games claimed to have as many as five hundred people simultaneously competing in the same game world.

The same distinction between plug-ins and extensions is in use by other web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, where a typical extension might be a new toolbar, and a plug-in might embed a video player on the page.

Physicist Robert Park states that parapsychology's reported positive results are problematic because most such findings are invariably at the margin of statistical significance and that might be explained by a number of confounding effects ; Park states that such marginal results are a typical symptom of pathological science as described by Irving Langmuir.

Alternatively, when a self-balancing binary search tree is used, insertion and removal also take O ( log n ) time, although building trees from existing sequences of elements takes O ( n log n ) time ; this is typical where one might already have access to these data structures, such as with third-party or standard libraries.

The following complaints are typical in patients who might receive a diagnosis of RSI:

A data type as used in a typical relational database might be the set of integers, the set of character strings, the set of dates, or the two boolean values true and false, and so on.

If this is typical, one way of discovering an extraterrestrial civilization might be to detect non-natural radio emissions from a location outside our Solar System.

For example, achieving first dan ranking with three years ' training might be typical in one organization, but fast in another organization, and likewise for other ranks.

Wilde hesitated about submitting the script to Alexander, worrying that it might be unsuitable for the St. James's Theatre, whose typical repertoire was relatively serious, and explaining that it had been written in response to a request for a play " with no real serious interest ".

Urban legends typically include one or more common elements: the legend is retold on behalf of the original witness or participant ; dire warnings are often given for those who might not heed the advice or lesson contained therein ( this is a typical element of many e-mail phishing scams ); and it is often touted as " something a friend told me ," while the friend is identified by first name only or not identified at all.

Although a typical plot might easily require a few thousand paper motions, back and forth, the paper doesn't slip.

A typical example, quoted from a commercial hand held VHF or UHF radio, might be ;

A typical filter might pass frequencies over 4, 000 Hz ( 4 kHz ).