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.

Player characters are dragons.

Player characters in both games, for instance, have six Attributes rated on a scale of 3 to 18, randomly generated by rolling six-sided dice.

Player characters are often also metonymically called players.

Player characters take on the role of both a Magus ( or if female, Maga ), and of a Companion ( in Latin, " Consors ").

The opening shot is discussed briefly in the opening shot of Robert Altman's 1992 film, The Player, by two characters who work for a fictional Hollywood studio, as the longest opening tracking shot in history.

In Tolkien's books, magic is a rare, subtle force only used by a few powerful characters, whereas in MERP magic ( from healing to throwing thunderbolts ) was possible for nearly any Player Character.

Player plays as Keiichi Morisato answering to questions posed by characters from the anime / manga such as Belldandy, Skuld, Urd, Lind, Peorth

Player characters who enter magical study are assumed to have apprenticed with a mage of their particular Magic College, and have learned all the basic spells and a ritual or two from their former Master.

The following characters are non-playable characters that appear only in the various Single Player modes throughout the series, controlled by the computer.

Player characters in combat actively defend as well as attack and various combat maneuvers are offered to create a more realistic feel to the hostile encounter.

Player characters are changelings, fae souls reborn into human bodies, a practice begun by the fae to protect themselves as magic vanished from the world.

Player characters are created by the player, with choices of race, name, gender and one of four set designs based on race and gender.

Player characters exist in a world with a player environment that gradually changes with the passage of time.

Player characters interact in a 3D environment but are represented by 2D character sprites for front, back, side and diagonal facings.

The sweep and variety of the characters have brought the movie comparisons to Robert Altman's Nashville and The Player.

Player characters were all " Storm Knights ".

Player characters must survive the deadly traps in the tomb and fight their way into the demi-lich's elaborately concealed inner sanctum to destroy him once and for all.

Player versus player interaction is on an opt-in basis, with characters over two days of play old being allowed to remove their protected status.

Player characters anger a faction and its allies by destroying its ships.

Player characters who have a bad relationship with a faction, are attacked on sight by its forces and denied from docking with its stations.

Player characters begin by arriving at the eponymous keep, and can base themselves there before investigating the series of caverns in the nearby hills teeming with monsters.

Still, the city of Ilium is quite clearly distinct from Schenectady, as characters in Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five refer to Schenectady as a separate place.

`` Just when you think you have it licked, this golf course can get up and bite you '', Player had said one afternoon midway through the tournament.

Long after the erratic climate and the washed-out final round on Sunday have become meteorological footnotes, the 1961 Masters will be remembered as the scene of the mano a mano between Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

Player B's city is a metropolis, and metropolises cannot be destroyed by the barbarians, so Player A loses a city because they have the next fewest number of active knights.

Only two players have won both the Norris and Hart Memorial Trophy for the league Most Valuable Player in the same season: Bobby Orr, who won both trophies in the 1969 – 70, 1970 – 71 and 1971 – 72 seasons, and Chris Pronger, who won the Hart and Norris in the 1999 – 2000 NHL season.

During their history, the Giants have featured 15 Hall of Fame players, including NFL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award winners Mel Hein, Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly, Y.

The Player of the Year standings were based upon performance solely at the WSOP in Las Vegas up until 2010, but beginning in 2011 have also taken the World Series of Poker Europe into account.

Windows Media Player can also have attached audio and video DSP plug-ins which process the output audio or video data.

As mentioned in The Player of Games, the Culture does have the occasional " crime of passion " ( as described by an Azadian ) and the punishment was to be " slap-droned ", or to have a drone assigned to follow the offender and " make sure don't do it again ".

Had Mourning won MVP over Malone, he would have joined Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.

Michael Jordan and Derrick Rose have both won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award while playing for the Bulls, for a total of 6 MVP awards.

Four Lakers — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant — have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Awards for a total of eight awards.

Player of the year and other achievement awards have also been awarded to leading players for several decades.

Player and on-ice officials must have been retired for a minimum of three years to be eligible for nomination.

In 1995, Nagurski was again honored when the Football Writers Association of America voted to have his name attached to college football's Defensive Player of the Year trophy.

For example, if after 12 holes Player A is 7-up with six left to play, Player A is said to have won the match " 7 and 6 ".

Player Killers, also known as PKs, are players who have chosen to change their status to enable them to attack other PKs in Player vs Player combat.

Some of his studies for Player Piano have also been arranged for musicians to play.