Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

Characters in all versions of Gamma World earn experience points during their adventures, which cause the character's Rank ( in some editions, Level ) to increase.

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

Characters had attributes rated from 1-100 ( usually in the 25-75 range ) which could be rolled against for raw-attribute actions such as lifting items or getting out of the way of falling rocks.

Characters also each had a Primary Skill Area ( PSA — Military, Technological, or Biosocial ) which allowed them to buy skills that fell into their PSA at a discount.

Characters are defined by a single attribute, " Strength ", which is used for determining all traditional role-playing elements, such as whether or not the character successfully hits in combat, how fast they can move and how much damage they can take before dying.

Characters discuss its existence and manipulation, while only superficially describing its exact physics, which result in a field being projected around a ship or other body, deflecting or dispersing projectiles and energy weapons.

Characters within the stories often point out that the Three Laws, as they exist in a robot's mind, are not the written versions usually quoted by humans but abstract mathematical concepts upon which a robot's entire developing consciousness is based.

As for the case of traditional Chinese characters, 4, 808 characters are listed in the " Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters " ( 常用國字標準字體表 ) by the Ministry of Education of ROC, while 4, 759 in the " Soengjung Zi Zijing Biu " ( 常用字字形表 ) by the Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong, both of which are intended to be taught during elementary and junior secondary education.

This Cyprian Aphrodite is the same as the later Hermaphroditos, which simply means Aphroditos in the form of a herm ( see Hermae ), and first occurs in the Characters ( 16 ) of Theophrastus.

The earliest mention of Hermaphroditus in Greek literature is by the philosopher Theophrastus ( 3rd century BC ), in his book The Characters, XVI The Superstitious Man, in which he portrays various types of eccentric people.

Characters may find themselves trapped in a routine or, in a metafictional conceit, trapped in a story ; the titular characters in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, for example, find themselves in a story ( Hamlet ) in which the outcome has already been written.

In The Characters ( c. 319 BC ), Theophrastus introduced the “ character sketch ,” which became the core of “ the Character as a genre .” It included 30 character types.

Mainland China, which uses Simplified Chinese Characters, uses the GB character set instead.

Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work, Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.

Characters are rewarded with more character points after each adventure, which are then used to buy more abilities, or eliminate disadvantages.

Characters in the blips included " sperm monsters " and blinking, genetically modified killer teddy bears, the latter of which became a self-conscious logo for the album's advertising campaign.

The 2007 release was promoted an Anniversary Edition, and featured a commentary by Brian Froud and two newly-produced making-of documentaries: " Journey Through the Labyrinth: Kingdom of Characters " and " Journey Through the Labyrinth: The Quest for Goblin City " which featured interviews with producer George Lucas, choreographer Gates McFadden and Brian Henson.

And these pentacles do consist either of Characters of the good spirits of the superiour order, or of sacred pictures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and fit versicles, which are composed either of Geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the course and maner of many of them ; or they are compounded of all of them, or very many of them mixt.

Characters with identical pronunciations are grouped into homophone classes, and each class is described according to two fanqie characters, the first of which has the initial sound of the characters in the homophone class and second of which has the same sound as the rest of the syllable ( the final ).

The chief of them are his Characters of Charles James Fox ( 1809 ) and his edited reprint of Tracts of Warburton and a Warburtonian, which caused controversy ; in his critique of Warburton, he focused on the worst written by Warburton and Hurd, which probably did not deserve to be reprinted, even if they were deliberately being suppressed by their authors.

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.

; Itajahya: Characters in this genus include a white calyptra ( tissue which covers the top of the fruiting body to which the gleba is attached ), lamellate plates covered with gleba.

Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus ' teachings and traditional Roman values.

Characters include Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his wife Kitty, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves, and Robert Wilson.

Characters once regular but now occasional include:

Characters only seen in a historical re-enactment performance include:

* Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots.

Characters include the Woozy, Ojo " the Unlucky ", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps ( the patchwork girl ), and others.

Characters include:

Characters with such names include:

Characters of somewhat lesser importance include the Pickles family dog, Spike, who has played important roles in some episodes, even starring in them at some instances, and Angelica's pet cat Fluffy.

Characters based on Gaddis include " Harry Lees " in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, " Harold Sand " in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly " Bill Gray " in Don DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II.

Characters ( with the forms they attend within the school during the series ) include:

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 include criminals, stalkers, assassins, innocent victims ( often on the run ), menaced women, characters with deep dark pasts, psychotic individuals, serial killers, sociopaths, agents, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, private eyes, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more.

Characters impersonated include Clarrie and Eddie Grundy, stumbling from one crisis to another, Joe Grundy and his incomprehensible yokel accent, Jack Woolley ’ s incomprehensible Brummie, posh Brian Aldridge, snooty Lynda Snell, and Geordie-accented Ruth " Oh noooh " Archer.

Cloud has also been included in some unorthodox lists ; these include IGN's " Worst Videogame Haircuts ", " Top Videogame Sword Masters " and ScrewAttack's " Top Ten Coolest Characters ".

Characters include grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians and hangers-on.

Characters include Friar Tuck, Robin Hood, St. George, and St. Michael.

Characters in the dance include a dragon, a knight, and a millstone.

Characters inspired by Borscht Belt comics include Billy Crystal's Buddy Young Jr. from Mr. Saturday Night and Robert Smigel's Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.

Characters from the Dragon Quest series include:

Characters from the Final Fantasy series include:

Characters include Eliot ( the default ), Cynthia, and Spike the dog.

Characters and comic-strips by Sardelli include:

Characters within the novel include Morvern, Lanna, Vanessa the Depresser, Couris Jean, Red Hanna, Tequila Shelia, Creeping Jesus, The Complex Boys & Granny Phmister.

Characters other than Frumpy include Mike and Mona Bragg, parents, and their kids Kim and Brad.