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.

Rather, the phrase " ash heap of history " appeared in this speech, used by Reagan to predict what he saw as the inevitable failure and collapse of global communism.

Rather, American conservatives should join the Muslims and others in condemning the global moral degeneracy that is produced by liberal values.

Rather than climate change mitigation, Moore advocates adaptation to global warming.

Rather, the overactivation of D2 receptors, specifically, is one effect of the global chemical synaptic disregulation observed in this disorder.

Rather, the vows follow a pragmatic approach in which the ten global commitments held by Vinaya novices constitute full ordination.

Rather, it is evidence that al-Qaeda and other extremists groups will stop at nothing to disturb the global economy and international peace.

Rather, an MC firm has market power because it has relatively few competitors, those competitors do not engage in strategic decision making and the firms sells differentiated product.

Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Rather, meat and potatoes, sugar, and dairy products are the main sources of carbohydrate, protein, oils, and fats.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Rather they are genuine clods, proud of their cloddishness and openly antagonistic to the illuminating influences of aesthetics or thought.

Rather, the sample is evaporated in a controlled manner ( field evaporation ) and the evaporated ions are impacted onto a detector, which may be up to several meters from the specimen.

Rather, given the implications of the theory of oral-formulaic composition and oral tradition, the question concerns how the poem is to be understood, and what sorts of interpretations are legitimate.

Rather than being scrapped or converted for other uses, sometimes retired buses are saved for preservation.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

Rather, they are acts of hesed that go beyond measure and demonstrate that a person can go beyond the minimum expectations of the law and choose the unexpected.

Rather than being ontologically real, in Christian Science evil and its manifestations are instead terrible lies about God and His creation.

Rather, the independent congregations are a network with each congregation participating at its own discretion in various means of service and fellowship with other congregations ( see Sponsoring church ( Churches of Christ )).

Rather, carinates are unique in having, for example, a globe-shaped, convex head on the humerus and fully fused bones in the lower leg and outer arm.

Rather, the system of assignment of sound values is much more systematic in the Cirth than in the historical runes ( e. g., voiced variants of a voiceless sound are expressed by an additional stroke ).

Rather, the items are grouped together because of a family resemblance.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Rather, he maintained, our beliefs are more a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences.

Rather the form of the argument is generalized to considering configurations, which are connected subgraphs of G with the degree of each vertex ( in G ) specified.

Rather they are charges that are easy for Loki to make and difficult for his targets to disprove, or which they do not care to refute.

Rather, they are to be understood as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour — mental, spoken, and bodily — that operate in dependence on one another ; taken together, they define a complete path, or way of living.

Rather than harmonics which are exact multiples of the fundamental, as generated by organ pipes, the Hammond organ uses the nearest-available frequencies generated by tonewheels, a factor which has some part in creating its distinctive tone color.

Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.

Rather uncommon scales such as whole tone scale are also typical for this movement.

Rather, they protect already weakened hooves.

Rather than offering new weapons, the mission pack gave the player new ammo for already existing weapons, such as " lava nails " for the Nailgun, cluster grenades, rockets that split into four in a horizontal line, plasma cells, and a grappling hook to help in moving around the map.

Rather, it asserts that Jesus came to fulfill the promise of the old covenant, first for those Jews already initiated into the covenant, who then accepted his messiahhood as that covenant's fulfillment.

Rather than end the series, Marvel hired writer Peter David and illustrator Larry Stroman to recreate X-Factor with new members, all of whom were already allies of the X-Men, and three of whom were involved in the Muir Island Saga.

Rather than provide for an actual legislative veto, however, the procedure created by the Act provides that, if the President should recommend rescission of a budgetary line item from a budget bill he previously signed into law — a power he already possesses pursuant to U. S. Const.

Rather than building and maintaining a levee, village leaders proposed that the federal funds already appropriated for levee construction be used instead to relocate the business district away from the floodplain.

Moreover, co-anchor Dan Rather was irate that Chung was sent from New York to the assignment while he was already in nearby Texas.

* Rather than the purpose as well as the method of the raid being Wallis ' sole idea, the dams had already been identified as an important target by the Air Ministry before the war.

Rather, recent studies have looked into development of health related communities and their impact on those already suffering health issues.

Rather than implementing CP / M's file system, he used BASIC-86's FAT filesystem to maintain compatibility with systems that SCP had already shipped.

" Rather than trying to encourage people to do more voluntary work, I would say look at the people who are doing the work already and give them more support.

Rather than drop " blind " into Albania, the mission was dropped into North-West Greece, where British parties were already operating with Greek guerrillas.

Rather, he believed that it depended on the power of God, and that while waiting for God to establish His kingdom, one should live as if the rule of God were already fully established.

Rather than try to teach recruits to interpret the standard romanization of the time, the Wade-Giles system, a new system was invented that utilized the decoding skills that recruits would already know from having learned to read English, i. e. it used English spelling conventions to represent Chinese sounds.

Rather than giving a traditional literary analysis, Baker begins the book by stating that he will read no more Updike than he already has up to that point.

Rather than the grand entrance that was common for game show hosts, Cullen would begin each show either already seated or concealed on set behind a sign or podium so that he would only have to take a few steps.

Rather than a cross from Hurst, Ball was greeted by a number of England fans running onto the pitch who, thinking that the game was already over, had already started celebrating England's victory.

Rather, the theory assumes that language already exists.

Rather, it's anticipated that the stronger team will win and protect their chance at a rank, while there is no harm done to the weaker team who is already out of reach of a trophy.

Rather, it is how one acts in relation to the natural processes already extant.

Rather than giving Quebec powers, he thought, the distinct society clause would recognize that Quebec already has powers that promote distinctiveness ( e. g. educational powers ), and, just as before the Meech Lake Accord, the use of these powers, even to protect the distinct society of Quebec, would be limited by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Rather than selling the benefits of eating wheat, which Hanff assumed customers already knew, her copy for the original advertisements told stories in verse, such as this one:

Rather than make new pressings of the Independency and Game Over albums, 3rd Stone Ltd had apparently already planned to release a new compilation ( Replay ) featuring previously released material, deleted material and unreleased live tracks.

Rather than further strengthen an already commanding position, he immediately decamped and marched his exhausted troops back across Bladensburg bridge, which he did not burn, to a brickyard miles further on.