Also, unlike gamemasters in traditional role-playing games, gamemasters for online games in some cases are paid employees.

They are differentiated from talkers by retaining elements beyond online chat, typically online creation as a community activity and some element of role-playing.

* Neutral alignment ( role-playing games ), a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in some games

Despite this variety of forms, some game forms such as trading card games and wargames that are related to role-playing games may not be included.

Online text-based role-playing games involve many players using some type of text-based interface and an Internet connection to play an RPG.

The game setting details are complete enough that some Ringworld fans not interested in role-playing buy the game just for the background material.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

Modern reconstructions of Viking mythology have shown a persistent influence in late 20th-and early 21st-century popular culture in some countries, inspiring comics, role-playing games, computer games, and music, including Viking metal, a sub-genre of heavy metal music.

* In the Nephilim role-playing game, an Akasha is some kind of alternate reality bubble, whose existence and content are based on the thoughts and dreams of the humans.

* Abomination ( Dungeons & Dragons ), the offspring of deities and some other being in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Dork Towers central characters are a group of people who play games as a hobby, including role-playing games and miniatures games, and some also participate in live action role-playing games.

Strife added some role-playing game elements and allowed players to talk to other characters in the game's world.

In some systems, such as the classic tabletop role-playing games Traveller, Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role-Playing, and the role-playing video games Final Fantasy II, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the SaGa and Grandia series, and Final Fantasy XIV, progression is based on increasing individual statistics ( skills, rank and other features ) of the character, and is not driven by the acquisition of ( general ) experience points.

" Remorting " ( also known as " rebirth ", " ascending / ascension ", " reincarnating ", or " new game plus ") is a game mechanic in some role-playing games whereby, once the player character reaches a specified level limit, the player can elect to start over with a new version of his or her character.

Some of Tekken characters have been featured as guest characters in other video games, such as Digimon World Re: Digitize, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Pac-Man Fever, Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, Soulcalibur II, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Ridge Racer 6 and Urban Reign, as well as in some crossover role-playing video games, including Cross Edge, Namco × Capcom and the upcoming Project X Zone.

The heroes also incorporate some role-playing game elements ; they possess a set of statistics that confer bonuses to an army, artifacts that enhance their powers, and knowledge of magical spells that can be used to attack enemies or produce strategic benefits.

A huge book ( roughly 700 pages, a figure which more than doubles if the accompanying CD-ROM is taken into consideration ) featuring some of the highest production values ever seen in the role-playing industry, Ptolus has enjoyed considerable success despite retailing for approximately $ 120 US, an unheard-of price for a roleplaying product.

Since the comic centers around a community of role-playing gamers, the characters are seen playing many games that are analogues of real-world games ( some of which were then published as real-world games ).

Developed by Westwood Associates, its role-playing elements and overhead viewpoint bear some similarity to Gauntlet.

There is some dispute among role-playing enthusiasts on when the concept of a generic system originated and which was the first one published.

Drawing their inspiration largely from similarly themed literature, science-fiction role-playing games frequently include needle-guns in some form.

Multiplayer online role-playing games can offer an exception to this contrast by allowing human interaction among multiple players and in some cases enabling a player to perform the role of a gamemaster.

Ball games, especially football, required some attention, and other organized sports may have attracted him as participant or spectator.

In some cities games were broadcast throughout the week and then on weekends the announcer was silenced, and fans must needs drive to the city from all the broadcast area to discover how their heroes were faring.

* Browser games can be applet-based, though some may develop into fully functional applications that require installation.

Numerous other games and contests involve some element of anagram formation as a basic skill.

The Plus 1 needed Page & D for it's workspace, and some games used this space.

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

Abergavenny Cricket Club play at Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, and Glamorgan CCC also play some of their games here.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

Nonetheless, some unreleased Atari 7800 games, as well as early versions of released games have been released to the public.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.

In other games, such as Tigris and Euphrates, some information is hidden from players.

In some modern board games, such as Clue, there are other pieces that are not a player's representative ( i. e. weapons ).

In some games, pieces may not represent or belong to any particular player.

After all boxes have finished playing, the dealer's hand is resolved by drawing cards until the hand busts or achieves a value of 17 or higher ( a dealer total of 17 including an ace, or " soft 17 ", must be drawn to in some games and must stand in others ).

The Bust-a-Move title was used for all subsequent games in the series in the United States and Canada, as well as for some ( non-Taito published ) console releases in Europe.

In league competitions games may end in a draw, but in some knockout competitions if a game is tied at the end of regulation time it may go into extra time, which consists of two further 15-minute periods.

** The Xbox 360 is backward compatible with some Xbox games via software emulation.

Customers gamble by playing games of chance, in some cases with an element of skill, such as craps, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, and video poker.

Therefore, for some games, there is a " proper " way of handling infractions of the rules.

Some matching-type games are also shedding-type games ; some variants of Rummy such as Phase 10 and Rummikub, as well as the children's game Old Maid, fall into both categories.