Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

For example, a player is told their character is confronted with a fox.

Call of Cthulhu has a reputation as a game in which it is quite common for a player character to die in gruesome circumstances or end up in a mental institution.

Both lines include investigator player character models and the iconic monsters of the Cthulhu mythos.

The player character automatically gains a spell with each experience level, and can permanently gain others using corresponding books, until all thirty spells available are learned.

A player can choose to play as one of eight different default character models ( four for each side, although Counter-Strike: Condition Zero added two extra models, bringing the total to ten ).

D & D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation.

Typically, each player controls only a single character, which represents an individual in a fictional setting.

During the course of play, each player directs the actions of his or her character and its interactions with the other characters in the game.

The only items required to play the game are the rulebooks, a character sheet for each player and a number of polyhedral dice.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

The player then chooses a race ( species ) such as Human or Elf, a character class ( occupation ) such as Fighter or Wizard, an alignment ( a moral and ethical outlook ), and a number of powers, skills and feats to enhance the character's basic abilities.

Doom, a science fiction / horror themed video game, has a background which is given in the game's instruction manual ; the rest of the story is advanced with short messages displayed between each section of the game ( called episodes ), the action as the player character progresses through the levels, and some visual cues.

Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside.

It ends with the player character entering the teleporter leading to Deimos, ending with him getting overwhelmed by monsters, if not killed.

The player character starts armed only with a pistol, and brass-knuckled fists in case the ammunition runs out, but larger weapons can be picked up: these are a chainsaw, a shotgun, a chaingun, a rocket launcher, a plasma rifle, and finally the immensely powerful BFG 9000.

There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.

The pregroove is molded into the top side of the polycarbonate disc, where the pits and lands would be molded if it were a pressed ( nonrecordable ) Red Book CD ; the bottom side, which faces the laser beam in the player or drive, is flat and smooth.

Each player kneels and faces one another on either side of the box, and each attempts to move the puck to the hole on their left.

In the miniatures of this style, the emphasis seems to be more on the posture of the player than the detail of their faces ; this crossed, lounging style is only found in the folios of the Libro de tablas, the third section of the Libro de juegos which explicates the game of backgammon, again perhaps indicative of the work of a particular artist.

Puzzle and Experience points only show the development of the player and his progress in the game, though in the first game also affected the kind of random encounters a player faces, as some monsters only appear after a certain level of experience is reached.

All six of the robots can be given orders in conjunction, and some of the challenges the player faces require that several of the robots work together to solve them.

* First ball rule-a player cannot be given out on the first ball he / she faces.

The player then had to match the faces on the wheel, and enter the year number that appeared on the island-respective hole.

Assume that each player faces the other three over a series of six games.

Rogers is one of the " famous faces " due to being a regular player on the online poker website Hollywood Poker which is run in conjunction with Ongame Network.

The player faces off with the AI in the game, in this case the antagonist " Stauf ", who is incredibly difficult to beat — all the while laughing and ridiculing the player with phrases like " Ooooooooo Baaaaaaaad Mooooooooove ," and " We'll all be dead by the time you solve this!

After each zone is completed, the player faces Doctor Eggman, the story's antagonist, in a boss battle.

Once a mark enters the circle of apparent players and faces the operator, the gang surrounds the player to discourage an easy exit and to keep other pedestrians from entering and disrupting the confidence trick gang's action on the main mark.

The Art of Fighting series follows the conventions of the time in the sense that the player faces a variety of opponents in best two-out-of-three matches.

A variation states that a player holding a hand with no cards with faces on them ( namely Jacks " J ", Queens " Q ", and Kings " K ") may request a reshuffle and the cards shall be dealt again.

However, when the player faces Brainiac in the game's final level, Brainiac simply stands in place unless the player attempts to use heat vision on him.

Amidst the chaos wrought by Curien, Rogan and " G " face many formidable foes, including The Chariot, an undead, armour-clad, neo-warrior wielding a bardiche who mortally wounds Rogan's fiancée Sophie Richards before the player faces him in battle, and The Hanged Man, a winged gargoyle / bat-like creature.

A player may decide to make a move so that his or her general faces the other player's general unobstructed ( which is called bikjang ).

In Gauntlet mode, the player outfits a ship with near-infinite money at their disposal, and faces several waves of attackers, with the object of staying alive for as long as possible.

" N. N ." is commonly used in the scoring of chess games, not only when one participant's name is genuinely unknown but when an untitled player faces a master, as in a simultaneous exhibition.

A player on a team who faces the same action is generally not considered to be " fired ", but rather " released " or " waived ".

Like Dragon's Lair, the gameplay of Space Ace requires the player to move the joystick in the right direction or press the fire button at the right moment to avoid the various hazards Dexter / Ace faces.

All we own is Francie's bedroom set and the televison-record player and we even owe on them.

For example, one of the objects of Sinistar is to shoot asteroids to get them to release resources which the player needs to collect.

Chains merge when a player places the tile that eliminates the empty space between them.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

First, the player must turn their back to their opponents, restricting their view of them and the court.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

Alternatively, if the boards are pre-dealt, " curtain cards " may be supplied which have each hand printed on them, so that each player can check at the beginning of the deal that he has the right cards.

When all of a player's checkers are in that player's home board, that player may start removing them ; this is called bearing off.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

Although player characters are substantially weaker than many of the dangers they face, the game is one of the first to encourage problem solving and outwitting obstacles, rather than out-fighting them.

After a further time limit expires, an additional invincible enemy appears for each player, actively chasing them using only vertical and horizontal movements.

Call of Cthulhu does not use levels, but is completely skill-based, with player characters getting better with their skills by succeeding at them.

In the " hop across ", the most popular variation, each player puts his / her own colored pieces on one of the six points or corners of the star and attempts to race them all " home " to the opposite corner.

In poison, once a player has finished the course, his ball becomes " poison ", which allows him to eliminate other balls from the game by roqueting them.

While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.

Additionally, the player may hire their caddy to carry their bag for them during training sessions and practice rounds.

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

The ducks appear one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down.

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

The primary purposes of tackling is to disposses an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.

Each player specifies how many of their cards they wish to replace and discards them.

In this case, if a player wishes to replace all five of their cards, that player is given four of them in turn, the other players are given their draws, and then the dealer returns to that player to give the fifth replacement card ; if no other player draws it is necessary to deal a burn card first.