This ability made the Amiga popular for many applications, and provides the ability to do character generation and CGI effects far more cheaply than earlier systems.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

To New Yorkers of his generation, a " Damon Runyon character " evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.

The character generation system involves players rolling completely random characters.

# Complexity, as character generation provides a sometimes overwhelming number of options and requires more mathematical computation than other games ( but see " Mathematics issues " below ).

An optional character generator and hardware for line and curve generation were available.

Classic Traveller introduced a ' lifepath '- style character generation system which helps it stand out from other role-playing games.

Subsequent rulebooks added " advanced " character generation for Army and Marine characters ( Mercenary ), Navy characters ( High Guard ), Scouts ( Scouts ), and Merchants ( Merchant Prince ).

* Conan the Adventurer ( 1966 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-first of the paperback printings of the Howard / de Camp " Conan " collaborations, which ensured the success of the character and defined it for a generation

The native tradition of Latin music which Byrd had done so much to keep alive more or less died with him, while consort music underwent a huge change of character at the hands of a new generation of professional musicians at the Jacobean and Caroline courts.

In 2011, however, Liam Neeson was cast in the part for a " next generation " rerecording, and subsequently also replaced Burton as the hologram character in the stage show.

The 2006 version includes maps from the original Ravenloft adventure, and new character generation options.

Rolemaster is sometimes derisively called ' Chartmaster ' or ' Rulemonster ' for depending upon numerous tables and charts for character generation and resolving game actions, and for its perceived vast array of rules covering every possible situation.

Charmander was one of several different designs conceived by Game Freak's character development team and finalized by Ken Sugimori for the first generation of Pocket Monsters games Red and Green, which were localized outside of Japan as Pokémon Red and Blue.

A character reports the fate of the generation ship Vanguard, from Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, whereby it was found derelict in space, but the survivors ( descendants of the characters from Orphans ) have adopted a hunter-gatherer lifestyle on another planet.

Francis Marion was one of the influences for the main character in the 2000 movie The Patriot, which according to Crawford " exaggerated the Swamp Fox legend for a whole new generation ".

The movie was regarded by many as culturally significant and for many of the younger generation, Bodrov's character Danila Bagrov became a hero and a role model.

In periods of rapid social change a generation would be much more likely to develop a cohesive character.

The character was re-discovered by a new generation of fans during the 1980s because of the success of The New Teen Titans, in which he left Batman's shadow entirely to assume the identity of Nightwing.

He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich bass-baritone singing voice.

The Carolingian Renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by Walahfrid Strabo ( died 849 ), in his introduction to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, summing up the generation of renewal:

A character's ability scores are purchased during character creation in an auction ; players get 100 character points, and bid on each attribute in turn.

While a character with Pattern, Logrus or Conjuration can acquire virtually any object, players can choose to spend character points to obtain objects with particular virtues-unbreakability, or a mind of their own.

During the game, players describe their PC's intended actions, such as punching an opponent or picking a lock, and converse with the DM in character – who then describes the result or response.

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

For example, one character creation method encourages players to first write prose descriptions of their characters and then translate those into Fudge Traits.

The third edition rules replace specialized matrices with the Action Control Table ( ACT ), a single, color-coded chart that allowed players to determine whether a character action succeeded, and the degree of success, with a single roll.

The use of Wiki software can allow gamemasters to easily keep track of notes and characters that appear during play, as well as character sheets and other useful tools for the players.

Hexen uses a modified version of the Doom engine, which allows jumping, network play with up to 8 players and the choice of three character classes.

# It is very flexible in character creation, allowing players to create nearly any character they can imagine.

# The ability for players familiar with the system's quirks to use the system to decrease the point cost of powers, leading to one character being much more powerful than another character of similar point value.

The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each other in character.

Special commands allow players to print OOC ( out of character ) messages, distinguished by a prefixed tag from IC ( in character ) action.

As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a character ( often in a fantasy world ) and take control over many of that character's actions.

Optimal starting hand standards can be very sensitive to factors such as the betting structure of a game, position, and the character of the other players, as well as the rules of the game being played.

Some take this concept further by creating E-feds ( electronic federations ), where a user can create their own fictional wrestling character, and roleplaying storylines with other users, leading to scheduled " shows " where match results are determined by the organizers, usually based on a combination of the characters ' statistics and the players ' roleplaying aptitude, sometimes with audience voting.

In both of these forms, an arranger called a game master ( GM ) usually decides on the rules and setting to be used and acts as referee, while each of the other players plays the role of a single character.

Role-playing games also include single-player offline role-playing video games in which players control a character or team who undertake quests, and may include capabilities that advance using statistical mechanics.

Then the players roll randomly for a certain number of defects, character age, and characteristics.

The combination of Karma Pool and dice pools gives players a considerable amount of freedom to decide how important a task is to their character.

Johnson Jones Hooper, whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; ;

Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its famous passion for orthodoxy since the days of Pantaenus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen of Alexandria, had begun to take on an almost secular character in the comprehensiveness of its interests, and had counted influential pagans among its serious auditors.

However, some home computer manufacturers extended the ASCII character set to take advantage of the advanced color and graphics capabilities of their systems.

Sarandon also reprised his role as Jack Skellington for Halloween Screams and the Haunted Mansion Holiday, a three-month overlay of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, where Jack and his friends take over the Mansion in an attempt to take over Christmas, much as his character did in the film.

In the forewords to both 2010 and 2061, Clarke makes it clear that the plots of the movies and books do not necessarily follow a linear arc, and take place in parallel universes, consequently there are apparent inconsistencies in the character of David Bowman throughout the series.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

This third perspective allows the male audience to take the female character as his own personal sex object because he can relate himself, through looking, to the male character in the film.

A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.

Idle himself was said to have been uncomfortable with the character ; " It's essentially a pretty savage attack on rabid Zionism, suggesting it's rather akin to Nazism, which is a bit strong to take, but certainly a point of view ".

" Minerva was worshipped throughout Italy, though only in Rome did she take on the warlike character shared by Athena.

* Several stories of the DC Comics character Martian Manhunter take place on Mars, and the Manhunter is a Martian.

While Plato's condemnation of rhetoric is clear in the Gorgias, in the Phaedrus he suggests the possibility of a true art wherein rhetoric is based upon the knowledge produced by dialectic, and relies on a dialectically informed rhetoric to appeal to the main character: Phaedrus, to take up philosophy.

Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development.

The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 18th century Robin Hood and Little John.

The rich characterization, the careful and caring social eye, the interplay of story line and character development announced that writers could take worn themes such as vampirism and make them fresh again.

Characters were usually quite durable in combat — it would take several hits from normal weapons to kill an average character.

Nor is one allowed to take on the persona of a sufficiently familiar fictional character ( e. g. Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood ).

The dramatic performer must take on the character of Desirée: a woman who finally realizes that she has misspent her youth on the shallow life.