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  2. Role-playing game terms - Wikipedia

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    Character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their abilities and specializations. [9] Character sheet: A record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session.

  3. List of tabletop role-playing games - Wikipedia

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    Designed by C. J. Carella, based on the TV show of the same name Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game: TSR, Inc. 1988 Designed by David Cook and Warren Spector, based on characters and settings from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show: Bunnies and Burrows: Fantasy Games Unlimited: 1976 Player characters are rabbits

  4. Tabletop role-playing games in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese-made tabletop role-playing games first emerged during the 1980s. Instead of "tabletop," they are referred to in Japanese as tabletalk RPGs (テーブルトークRPG, tēburutōku āru pī jī) (often shortened as TRPG), a wasei-eigo term meant to distinguish them from role-playing video games, which are popular in Japan. Today, there ...

  5. Character class (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    A character class is a fundamental part of the identity and nature of characters in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. A character's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses are largely defined by their class; choosing a class is one of the first steps a player takes to create a Dungeons & Dragons player character . [ 1 ]

  6. Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014. [13] In 2004, D&D remained the best-known, [18] and best-selling, [19] role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide. [3]

  7. Mystara - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5]: 131 It was then expanded upon in various D&D modules and sources, particularly a series of Gazetteers, many of which originally referred to the setting as "The D&D Game World". [ 6 ] : 19 The first published use of the name "Mystara" came in 1991 from Bruce Heard in the Letters section of his Voyage of the Princess Ark series in Dragon ...

  8. Transcription into Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese does not have separate l and r sounds, and l-is normally transcribed using the kana that are perceived as representing r-. [2] For example, London becomes ロンドン (Ro-n-do-n). Other sounds not present in Japanese may be converted to the nearest Japanese equivalent; for example, the name Smith is written スミス (Su-mi-su).

  9. Shift JIS - Wikipedia

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    Shift JIS is the third-most declared character encoding for Japanese websites (though in effect it means its superset Windows-31J is used, so it is third-most popular), declared by 1.0% of sites in the .jp domain, while UTF-8 is used by 99% of Japanese websites.