Guild Wars

There are currently six character professions available, each with their own attributes and unique skill sets, though it is not uncommon to see specific 'builds' centered around a particular arrangement of skills and professions: It is confirmed that in the Chapter 2 expansion, Guild Wars: Factions, there will be at least two new professions: the Assassin and the Ritualist. < ...

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Guild Wars, Guild Wars - Overview, Guild Wars - Game mechanics, Guild Wars - Professions, Guild Wars - Elementalist, Guild Wars - Mesmer, Guild Wars - Monk, Guild Wars - Necromancer, Guild Wars - Ranger, Guild Wars - Warrior, Guild Wars - Locations, Guild Wars - Common terms, Guild Wars - Emotes, Guild Wars - Collector's Edition, Guild Wars - World Championship

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There are currently six character professions available, each with their own attributes and unique skill sets, though it is not uncommon to see specific 'builds' centered around a particular arrangement of skills and professions. The developer, ArenaNet, has confirmed that there will be additional professions introduced with future expansions to the game. In the upcoming Guild Wars: Factions, which is due in the second quarter of 2006, there will be two new professions: the Assassin and the Ritualist. < ...

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Guild Wars, Guild Wars - Overview, Guild Wars - Game mechanics, Guild Wars - Professions, Guild Wars - Elementalist, Guild Wars - Mesmer, Guild Wars - Monk, Guild Wars - Necromancer, Guild Wars - Ranger, Guild Wars - Warrior, Guild Wars - Guild Wars: Factions, Guild Wars - Assassin, Guild Wars - Ritualist, Guild Wars - Locations, Guild Wars - Criticism, Guild Wars - The gaining of new skills, Guild Wars - Common terms, Guild Wars - Emotes, Guild Wars - Collector's Edition

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CRPGs, in general, are derivative of paper-and-pencil based role-playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). For example, the vast majority of video-game RPGs assign various attributes to the characters, such as hit points (HP), magic points (MP), and levels. These games also tend to borrow the narrative structure of many paper-and-pencil RPGs; usually a group of heroes (a party) is sent on some sort of quest. Along the way, the adventurers face an endless barrage of enemies and monsters ...

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Computer role-playing game, Computer role-playing game - Overview, Computer role-playing game - Character development, Computer role-playing game - Setting genres, Computer role-playing game - Layout, Computer role-playing game - Combat sequencing, Computer role-playing game - History, Computer role-playing game - Modern games, Computer role-playing game - Cultural differences, Computer role-playing game - Japanese and East Asian, Computer role-playing game - American and other Western, Computer role-playing game - Comparison, Computer role-playing game - Shared characteristics, Computer role-playing game - CRPGs' relationship to PnP RPGs, Computer role-playing game - Variant terminology, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of CRPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of computer RPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of console RPGs, Computer role-playing game - List of companies, Computer role-playing game - Related genres

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A competitive online role-playing game (commonly abbreviated CORPG) is an online genre of computer and video games centred around the creation and development of an avatar with the intent of competing with and against others in a global competition. The term was first coined along-side the creation of Guild Wars, after the developers decided that their game did not to fit under the us ...

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World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a race/class-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the 4th game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. The Warcraft games are set in the eponymous Warcraft Universe, a fantasy setting introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft is set four years after the events at the conclusion of Bl ...

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• World of Warcraft - Virtual community
• World of Warcraft - Community
• World of Warcraft - Problems
• World of Warcraft - Advantages
• World of Warcraft - Deviance from the MMORPG archetype
• World of Warcraft - General information
• World of Warcraft - Launch and sales
• World of Warcraft - System requirements
• World of Warcraft - Modifications
• World of Warcraft - Exploits
• World of Warcraft - Known types
• World of Warcraft - Legality
• World of Warcraft - Defenses against banning
• World of Warcraft - Expansion Pack

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List of role-playing games List of publishers Science fiction Fantasy RPG History Computer role-playing Live action role-playing Tabletop role-playing Board games MMORPGs Wargaming Category:Role-playing games Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. Modern RPG games encompass a wide range of ...

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• Computer role-playing game - Overview
• Computer role-playing game - Character development
• Computer role-playing game - Setting genres
• Computer role-playing game - Layout
• Computer role-playing game - Combat sequencing
• Computer role-playing game - History
• Computer role-playing game - Modern games
• Computer role-playing game - Cultural differences
• Computer role-playing game - Japanese and East Asian
• Computer role-playing game - American and other Western
• Computer role-playing game - Comparison
• Computer role-playing game - Shared characteristics
• Computer role-playing game - CRPGs' relationship to PnP RPGs
• Computer role-playing game - Variant terminology
• Computer role-playing game - Chronology of CRPGs
• Computer role-playing game - Chronology of computer RPGs
• Computer role-playing game - Chronology of console RPGs
• Computer role-playing game - List of companies
• Computer role-playing game - Related genres

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A doppelgänger is the ghostly double of a living person, adapted from German Doppelgänger (look-alike). The word comes from doppel meaning "double" and Gänger translated as "goer". The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation: Somewhere, in a parallel universe, your evil twin exists. Identical to you in every physical attribute, its mind is twisted, evil and hell-bent on destruction; it is everything you ...

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• Doppelgänger - Famous reports of the Doppelgänger phenomenon
• Doppelgänger - Emilie Sagée
• Doppelgänger - The doppelgänger phenomenon in popular culture
• Doppelgänger - Literature
• Doppelgänger - Film
• Doppelgänger - Television
• Doppelgänger - Other media

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Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) discovered what he called animal magnetism and others often called mesmerism. The evolution of Mesmer's ideas and practices led James Braid (1795-1860) to develop hypnosis in 1842. Franz Mesmer - Early life. Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, Swabia. After studying at the Jesuit universities of Dillingen and Ingolstadt, he took up the study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1759. In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin t ...

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• Franz Mesmer - Early life
• Franz Mesmer - The advent of animal magnetism
• Franz Mesmer - Trivia
• Franz Mesmer - Works by Franz Mesmer

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Bellevue was founded in 1869 by William Meydenbauer, and was officially incorporated on March 21, 1953. Prior to the opening of the Lake Washington Floating Bridge in 1940, this was a rural area with little development. Once the bridge opened, access from Seattle improved and the area gradually grew into a bedroom community. Following the opening of a second, Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in 1963, the city began to grow more rapidly. It became one of the largest cities in the state, with multiple high-rise structures and a burgeonin ...

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Bellevue Washington, Bellevue Washington - History, Bellevue Washington - Geography, Bellevue Washington - Government and politics, Bellevue Washington - Education, Bellevue Washington - Economy, Bellevue Washington - Demographics, Bellevue Washington - Culture, Bellevue Washington - Famous residents

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Trogdor does not interact with the rest of the gang, but is featured in an animated short at the end of the "Dragon" email (which also includes the song "Trogdor," known for its heavy-metal sound and the phrase "And then Trogdor comes in the night!"), and he appears in two video games (Peasant's Quest and Trogdor) on the site. Trogdor's nefarious deeds consist of "burninating the countryside", "burninating the peasants" and "burninating all the peoples ...

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Trogdor, Trogdor - Genesis, Trogdor - Name of the Burninator, Trogdor - Burninate!, Trogdor - Trogdor's Song, Trogdor - Trogday, Trogdor - Trogdor References, Trogdor - Downloads

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World of Warcraft - Community. In addition to playing the game itself and conversing on discussion forums provided by Blizzard, World of Warcraft players often participate in the World of Warcraft virtual community in creative ways, including fan artwork, comic strip style storytelling or even recording songs devoted to deleted NPCs such as Captain Placeholder. Another popular phenomenon in the community is a video starring a player named Leeroy Jenkins, intended to provide publicity for Leer ...

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World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft - Virtual community, World of Warcraft - Community, World of Warcraft - Problems, World of Warcraft - Advantages, World of Warcraft - Deviance from the MMORPG archetype, World of Warcraft - General information, World of Warcraft - Launch and sales, World of Warcraft - System requirements, World of Warcraft - Modifications, World of Warcraft - Exploits, World of Warcraft - Known types, World of Warcraft - Legality, World of Warcraft - Defenses against banning, World of Warcraft - Expansion Pack

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In Square Enix's Final Fantasy series of computer role-playing games, the Monk (Japanese: モンク) is a character class (or "job"). It is frequently also referred as the Black Belt. In Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy III an upgraded, more powerful form of the class appears as the Karate Master (からてか). The Monk is portrayed a master of martial arts (especially karate) who shuns heavy weapons or armor in favor of barehanded fighting. In the later games, it has also shown a proclivity ...

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Monk character class, Monk character class - In Final Fantasy, Monk character class - In EverQuest

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The beginning of the MMORPG genre can be traced back to non-graphical online Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) games such as MUD developed by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw in 1978, and similar games developed around the same time for the PLATO System. MUDs (and later descendants such as MUSHes and MOOs) were wildly different in implementation from one another, but shared many basic interface elements such as using a telnet client to connect to a shared computer system (usually hosted by a university, sometimes without the knowledge of said system's ...

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MMORPG, MMORPG - History, MMORPG - 1980s, MMORPG - Early 1990s, MMORPG - Late 1990s, MMORPG - 2000 to present, MMORPG - Academic attention, MMORPG - Amateur development, MMORPG - Browser-based MMORPGs, MMORPG - MUD, MMORPG - Genre challenges, MMORPG - Cheating, MMORPG - Private servers

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The beginning of the MMORPG genre can be traced back to non-graphical online Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) games such as those developed in the late-1970s for the PLATO System. Earlier games such as pedit5, dnd, Dungeon, orthanc, baradur, bnd and sorcery were multi-user games, but the players could not interact with one another. Subsequent games on PLATO including oubliette, avathar (later renamed avatar), emprise and moria allowed players to interact, including h ...

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MMORPG, MMORPG - History, MMORPG - 1980s, MMORPG - Early 1990s, MMORPG - Late 1990s, MMORPG - 2000 to present, MMORPG - Academic attention, MMORPG - Open source development, MMORPG - Browser-based MMORPGs, MMORPG - MUD, MMORPG - Genre challenges, MMORPG - Cheating, MMORPG - Private servers

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In 1774 Mesmer used a magnet to produce an "artificial tide" in a patient. Mesmer had her swallow a preparation containing iron, and then attached magnets to various parts of her body. She reported feeling streams of a mysterious fluid running through her body and was relieved of her symptoms for several hours. Mesmer did not believe that the magnets had achieved the cure on their own. He felt that he had contributed animal magnetism, which had accumulated in his own body, to ...

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Franz Mesmer, Franz Mesmer - Early life, Franz Mesmer - The advent of animal magnetism, Franz Mesmer - Trivia, Franz Mesmer - Works by Franz Mesmer

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In literature, self-fulfilling prophecies are often used as plot devices. One of the earliest examples of self-fulfilling prophecies in literature is the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus. Warned that his child would one day kill him, Laius abandoned his newborn son Oedipus to die. But Oedipus was instead adopted by a foster family, and kept ignorant of his true origins. When he grew up, Oedipus was warned that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Believing his foster parents were his real parents, he left his home and travell ...

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Self-fulfilling prophecy, Self-fulfilling prophecy - Psychology, Self-fulfilling prophecy - Literature and arts, Self-fulfilling prophecy - Technology

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Leeroy's popularity has spread to other Internet venues as well. In the popular free-to-play MMORPG Guild Wars, a dwarven character named Kilroy Stonekin relates the death of his family and calls the players to battle with a similar shout of his own name. Unlike Leeroy, Kilroy's shout conveys benefit to his players rather than spelling their demise. In NCSoft's City of Villains, there is a recurring Arachnos soldier NPC by the name of "Jenkins" (whom you typically have to rescue because he keeps getting himself captured.) City of Villains developer Positron recently announced to players that the cha ...

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Leeroy Jenkins, Leeroy Jenkins - Leeroy's origins, Leeroy Jenkins - Leeroy's popularity rise, Leeroy Jenkins - Expansion of Leeroy as a meme, Leeroy Jenkins - Number of downloads, Leeroy Jenkins - Leeroy merchandise, Leeroy Jenkins - Derivative works, Leeroy Jenkins - What was Leeroy saying?, Leeroy Jenkins - Dialogue

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CRPGs, in general, are derivative of paper-and-pencil based role-playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). For example, the vast majority of video-game RPGs assign various attributes to the characters, such as hit points (HP), magic points (MP), and levels. These attributes are most often displayed as a numeric value to the player, as opposed to a simpler abstract graphical representation (such as bars and meters) favored by video games traditionally. CRPGs tend to borrow the narrative structu ...

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Computer role-playing game, Computer role-playing game - Overview, Computer role-playing game - Character development, Computer role-playing game - Setting and genres, Computer role-playing game - Navigation, Computer role-playing game - Encounters and combat, Computer role-playing game - History, Computer role-playing game - Modern games, Computer role-playing game - Cultural differences, Computer role-playing game - Japanese and East Asian, Computer role-playing game - American and other Western, Computer role-playing game - Comparisons, Computer role-playing game - Criticisms, Computer role-playing game - Variant terminology, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of CRPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of computer RPGs, Computer role-playing game - Chronology of console RPGs, Computer role-playing game - List of companies, Computer role-playing game - Related genres

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StarCraft universe - Strategy games. StarCraft StarCraft: Brood War StarCraft universe - Third-person shooter. StarCraft: Ghost ...

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StarCraft universe, StarCraft universe - Blizzard Entertainment computer games set in the StarCraft universe, StarCraft universe - Strategy games, StarCraft universe - Third-person shooter, StarCraft universe - Books set in the StarCraft universe, StarCraft universe - Amazing Stories Articles, StarCraft universe - Races, StarCraft universe - Locations and territories, StarCraft universe - Koprulu Sector, StarCraft universe - Outlying Worlds, StarCraft universe - References

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Players cannot normally fight with each other in most areas of the map. There are however 4 different areas where player vs player combat is allowed in RuneScape, each with different rules and properties. Here more than anywhere else, the RuneScape combat triangle becomes an important factor in determining who emerges the victor. Rangers will have an advantage against mages, mages will have an advantage against warriors, and warriors have an advantage against rangers. ...

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RuneScape, RuneScape - Overview, RuneScape - History and development, RuneScape - Combat, RuneScape - Player vs player combat, RuneScape - The Wilderness, RuneScape - Pures, RuneScape - Duel Arena, RuneScape - Castle Wars, RuneScape - TzHaar Fight Pit, RuneScape - Older forms of combat, RuneScape - Skills, RuneScape - Quests, RuneScape - Mini-games, RuneScape - Community, RuneScape - Language Filter, RuneScape - Community Marketplace, RuneScape - Item Scamming, RuneScape - Drop parties, RuneScape - Clans, RuneScape - Clan Wars, RuneScape - Graphics, RuneScape - Fashion, RuneScape - Random events, RuneScape - Weapons, RuneScape - Weapon types, RuneScape - Materials, RuneScape - Dragon weapons, RuneScape - Poison, RuneScape - Monsters, RuneScape - Ket-Zek, RuneScape - Kalphite Queen, RuneScape - King Black Dragon, RuneScape - Dagannoths, RuneScape - TzTok-Jad, RuneScape - Black demons, RuneScape - Greater Demons, RuneScape - Moderators, RuneScape - In-game slang and terminology, RuneScape - Economy and money, RuneScape - Criticism, RuneScape - Pricing information

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