* Director: During the game, while each of the other players typically controls the actions of one of the Player Characters, the GM decides the actions of all the NPCs as they are needed.

Characters range from " everyday Joes in space " to crack mercenary teams, and the game often draws from pulp science-fiction for its aliens ( the Aslan are similar to Kzin, the Hivers to Pierson's Puppeteers, and so on ).

Characters in the game are survivors of the war.

Characters have a much greater significance attached to their acts, especially if they are morally impure, as they risk coming under the influence of the Dark Powers ( through the game process called " dark powers checks ") and gradually transforming themselves into figures of evil.

The game features Hello Kitty and other notable Sanrio Characters.

Characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were also featured in the 2005 Nintendo DS Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover game Jump Super Stars and its sequel Jump Ultimate Stars, including Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando as playable characters.

Characters and settings from the series also appear in the collectible card game Universal Fighting System by Fantasy Flight Games and in Epic Battles by Score Entertainment.

Characters from G Gundam appear in the video game Dynasty Warriors: Gundam.

Characters in the game are defined by their ability scores, skills ( dependent on education level ), and class, which allows the selection of certain powers or enhanced skills or equipment.

Characters within The Whispering Vault used to be human, but after a life dedicated to protecting humanity against supernatural beings they have been recruited into the ranks of the Stalkers, the main heroes of the game.

In 2007, Tom's Games listed her as one of the " Top 50 Greatest Female Characters in Video Game History ", stating " There have been memorable villains in video game history, but none quite like SHODAN ".

Characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas have also had cameos in Disney and Square Enix's role-playing game series, Kingdom Hearts.

The game has four card types: Characters, Locales, Creations, and Surprises.

Characters created in this game would later be use in several other Sonic-related games.

Characters generally stop learning character specific spells and skills around experience level 15 ; however, around this time in the game, players will reach Dharma Island, where they can give their characters certain classes.

Bandai made the very first crossover video game featuring Weekly Shōnen Jump Characters called Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden for the Famicom in 1988.

Characters from King of the Hill have appeared on The Simpsons to comment on a peewee football game.

Characters from a fictional television series may appear on a stylized version of an established non-fictional television series, such as game shows or reality shows.

Characters can be edited to any colours, but do not inherit black select and gold select powers as in the X Plus game.

* Characters in the Kirby video game series

They correspond to Special Characters in the Warhammer Fantasy game and are typically more powerful than simple Hired Swords.

Characters were said to have their own agendas and allegiances in addition to randomization of various settings of the game upon startup in order to make it less predictable ; a character who was allied with the player in one game could be their enemy in the next.

" RealPoor ranks her among the 12 Best Female Characters in Video Games, declaring that we " know Manon as a French resistance woman who appeared as an advisor in the first MoH game.

Characters such as Briar Rose and Scythe, who played only minor roles in the original game, are now given more importance and are included in certain main and side quests.

Characters in Amber DRPG have access to the powers seen in the Chronicles of Amber: Pattern, Logrus, Shape-shifting, Trump, and magic.

" Characters mention that they have eyes and brains like humans, and they are seen to bleed when injured ( although they can take a lot more damage than humans can ).

Characters from and references to The Legend of Zelda series have appeared in a variety of other video games that go beyond what is considered a typical cameo appearance.

Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly ; Nobby's Piles ; Johnny Fartpants ; Buster Gonad ; Sid the Sexist ; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres.

Characters often have OBE added to the end of their name.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Characters in the Simpsons rarely have fully consistent backstories, and previously-given backstories are often intentionally undermined for humor in subsequent episodes.

Characters in Absurdist drama may also face the chaos of a world that science and logic have abandoned.

Characters now have unique abilities, performed by pressing the jump button a second time while in mid-air.

Characters cannot encounter each other while in the Timescape — they have been teleported to an entire different reality, not an area as on the main board.

Characters in Wasteland consequently have various statistics ( strength, intelligence and luck among others ) that allow them to use different skills and weapons.

Characters have statistics to reflect their fighting prowess, intelligence and loyalty towards their respective lords, among other attributes.

Characters within the world can talk to one another and have almost the same interactions people would have in reality.

Characters who appear in Josie and the Pussycats come from Midvale ( although in the film the characters explicitly come from Riverdale, the girls have a Muni bus pass ).

Characters shared by the teeth of Lavanify and Bharattherium include the presence of an infundibulum and a furrow ; they both also have large, continuous bands of matrix ( unbundled hydroxyapatite crystals ) between the prisms ( bundles of hydroxyapatite crystals ) of the enamel, and perikymata — wave-like ridges and grooves in the enamel surface.

Characters with background connections in the story typically have styles or moves in common.

Characters have attack and parry values determined by various other values.

Characters from the regular Bratz line have been released as Babyz.

Characters who are killed off have their parts in the opening changed.

Characters who have left the show often return, such as ;

Characters ' backstories tend to have a greater overall effect on storyline.

Characters have HP, MP ( SP for fighter characters ), EXP, equipment, stats and class-specific, SP-draining special elemental abilities very much like traditional console RPGs.