The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

The game was inspired by Richard Adams ' fantasy novel Watership Down, and the players were given the opportunity to take on the role of rabbits.

Whatever the truth of the matter, Jaques certainly played an important role in popularising the game, producing editions of the rules in 1857, 1860, and 1864.

Dicing is mentioned as an Indian game in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda and Buddha games list ; it also plays a critical role in the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, where Yudhisthira plays a game of dice against the Kauravas for the northern kingdom of Hastinapura, which becomes the trigger for a war.

The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play or opera, a television show or a movie, or active, as in the case of a video game.

There are several deities in EverQuest who each have a certain area of responsibility and play a role in the " backstory " of the game setting.

The role of a gamemaster in a traditional role-playing game is to weave the other participants ' player-character stories together, control the non-player aspects of the game, create environments in which the players can interact, and solve any player disputes.

The role of a gamemaster in an online game is to enforce the game's rules and provide general customer service.

Each gaming system has its own name for the role of the gamemaster, such as " judge ", " narrator ", " referee ", " director ", or " storyteller ", and these terms not only describe the role of the gamemaster in general but also help define how the game is intended to be run.

This is the only Heretic / Hexen video game that is unrelated to id Software, apart from its role as engine licenser.

In his role as journalist, he campaigned against the detrimental effects on the game of both alcohol and gambling.

The game played an important role in displaying the potency of the forward pass and " open offense " and convinced many coaches to add pass plays to their play books.

* Materia Magica, a virtual world role playing game

" In November 2007, Mr. T appeared in a television commercial for the online role playing game World of Warcraft with the phrase " I'm Mr. T and I'm a Night Elf Mohawk ".

His role in the game series continued until Gauntlet 4 for the Sega Genesis.

A player character or playable character ( PC ) is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game.

The game was the first occasion of the use of a designated hitter in a National League ballpark in a regular-season game ; Ryan Howard was the first player to fill the role.

The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Politics is an accelerating game.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

it must play a game in which there never is a winner.

It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.

The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.

The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.

** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.