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The character's defensive affinity rating is determined by the largest number of affinity points out of the armor, shield, and helmet.
Shields take damage in place of the character, so they will break if their HP is depleted.
Tornado is a skill that rearranges the position of all the characters in its range, and it's useful in a tight spot.
www.cheatcc.com /psx2/sg/gladius.txt   (21301 words)

  
 The Archaea Sourcebook - Chapter Two: Rule of Character (p.1)
If the character studied in a house of healers, he or she would be of the discipline Rule of Knowledge.
Cookie-cutter character types such as the fighter, the thief, and the mage are not the intentions of the disciplines.
Characters that choose this discipline make their way of life living by the sword, by the strength in their bodies, and by their skill at arms.
www.archaea.org /chara.html   (2016 words)

  
 Armor :: d20srd.org
Your character’s encumbrance (the amount of gear he or she carries) may also restrict the maximum Dexterity bonus that can be applied to his or her Armor Class.
A character who wears armor and/or uses a shield with which he or she is not proficient takes the armor’s (and/or shield’s) armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all Strength-based and Dexterity-based ability and skill checks.
When added to your shield, these spikes turn it into a martial piercing weapon that increases the damage dealt by a shield bash as if the shield were designed for a creature one size category larger than you.
www.d20srd.org /srd/equipment/armor.htm   (2083 words)

  
 Nance Memorial part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shields was a man honored alike for all the virtues of a Christian character, and remarkable for the courtesy of a Christian gentleman.
Shields, in the same way, united with the same organization, July 18, 1830, and we can say decidedly that it was for them an event of great significance, preparatory to the religious training of the children given them of God as his trust.
The Shields family, with the exception of the father’s two sisters, had their home and their business in New Albany, as also her mother’s people, the Day family, and she grew up surrounded by a large circle of relatives, among whom there was warm affection and devoted attachment.
webpages.charter.net /bobnance/memorial2.htm   (12761 words)

  
 T.T. Shields - Doug A. Adams
Shields and a sympathetic student were said to hide in a broom closet for fear of their lives.
Shields complains at one point: "In a very little time, the way we are going, I can see that we should be allowed no relation whatever to the Seminary." Shield's vision of a Church School is directly under fire.
Shields announced to his Church and, through the press, to the whole country that he alone saw the religious aspect of the report.
www.gw.ca /documents/adams_d/ttshields.htm   (9842 words)

  
 Wedge-type character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term comes from the character Wedge Antilles who appeared in the three original Star Wars movies, and managed to survive all three major battles of the trilogy, even directly helping to destroy the second Death Star in the third movie.
Sometimes Wedge-type characters manage to progress slightly, possessing the attributes of reliability, dependability and competence, but being also accorded a minor degree of development.
The RPG Final Fantasy VIII has two enemy characters, named Biggs and Wedge, who, despite fighting the protagonists on several occasions, manage to survive all the way to the end of the game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wedge-type_character   (621 words)

  
 Character Development and Physical Activity (book)
This book is the first to examine character development and moral action in sport and physical activity contexts.
David Shields and Brenda Bredemeier, developers of an ongoing research program focusing on morality and physical activity, give readers a thorough introduction to the field of sport morality while inviting further research in this area.
Shields and Bredemeier do not pretend that nothing had been done before they started working in the field--they actually cover and summarize decades of theory and research.
www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,HK-0-87322-711-5.html   (753 words)

  
 Carol Shields: all these years later, still digging - Canadian writer Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada - ...
Shields' best-known novel, The Stone Diaries, was published in 1993 and won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Canadian Booksellers Award, the American Book Critics Circle Award and the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
Shields practices the dying art of letter writing and uses the Internet to keep in touch with friends and her children who are adults now.
A typical Carol Shields character could be described as middle class, middle-aged and middle-of-the-road, with a relatively uneventful life, but the small details are paramount in a Shields story.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n3_v31/ai_20931298   (1033 words)

  
 Emanuel Levy : Review - The Bad and the Beautiful
Shields pretended to love the actress, when he was sleeping with another woman.
Shields attempted to gain control over the writer's work by arranging a secret (and fatal) affair between the writer's sexy wife and the studio's Latin lover.
The second scene, which wasn’t filmed, occurs at the end of the story, with Shields in a Paris hotel, aware that the people he once betrayed are eavesdropping on his call to Hollywood.
emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2949   (1299 words)

  
 'Unless' by Carol Shields
Early in Carol Shields’ luminous new novel, the main character is talking after dinner with a physicist friend of her husband.
Shields is a consummate master of tone and acute psychological insight, and Reta’s voice gives the book its depth and its humor, as when she says, “Norah’s efflorescence of goodness” is “killing us.”
Shields has recently announced that she is in the late stages of cancer and said this is probably her last novel.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020512review988.asp   (765 words)

  
 SOLAR : Everhate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A character may use a claw in one hand and a one handed weapon in the other without requiring the Florentine skill, but the weapon skill for each are required (i.e.
Aggression I grants the character a +1 strength bonus to be used to call one extra point of damage per swing, carry one human-sized object at a brisk walk, or drag two human-sized objects at a regular walk.
The character can be affected as normal throughout the entirety of the phasing-out count, but cannot be affected (except to Imprison (C8) the player) while phasing in.
www.solarinc.com /everhate/skills.html   (4089 words)

  
 Rolemaster Moments Jan 2003 p1
Claude's character was standing by her bed, covered in gore, holding a bloody dagger.
Claude's character decided to confuse any wrong-doers by hanging around nonchalantly in plain sight as if he were some love-lorn Lothario seeking solace in solitude.
We were playing good characters and put our personal reservations on hold and began to use non magical means to bring the bashkar back from the cusp of death.
www.ironcrown.com /rmmoments/rmmoments2003/rmmomentsJan03p1.htm   (3308 words)

  
 NewStandard: 7/20/96
Shields, who had signed a development deal with Warner, fell in love with the character, Mr.
Shields' character is transformed from editor at a small book publishing house in Southern California to a magazine writer in San Francisco, a "more active environment," the producers say.
Brooke Shields will star in the NBC series "Suddenly Susan," slated for the fall season.The show had a rocky start, but now producers believe it is headed for success.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-96/07-20-96/b05ae078.htm   (820 words)

  
 Shields National Class Association
The objects of the Association are to promote Corinthian racing of Shields Class yachts and to maintain the one-design character thereof as sponsored by Cornelius Shields and designed by Sparkman & Stephens, Inc.
Shields Registry of boats (updated September 2, 2006).
Shields One Design Sailing Association Fleet #3 showed Shields 63 at the Strictly Sail Chicago show on February 2 - 5, 2006.
www.shieldsclass.com   (147 words)

  
 New Defense Rules
In case of an attack that can be defended against (usually Dodged), but was not aimed directly against the character, such as avalanches or explosions, the GM should apply an appropriate modifier to the character's defense roll.
A successful Block usually means that the attack was turned by the shield, which has taken most of the damage intended to the defender, per sidebar on p.
Or, if a ST11 character swings at someone with a greatsword, making his attack by 2, he will inflict (3 x 1) + 4 = 7 points of damage; if he made the roll exactly, the damage would be only (1 x 1) + 4 = 5 points.
www.thecabal.org /gurps/rareitems/defenserules.html   (729 words)

  
 Me, myself, and I (Seattle Weekly)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
DAVID SHIELDS loves sexy girls and the novelist Vladimir Nabokov and the basketball player Vince Carter, but the person David Shields loves most, more than anyone, is David Shields.
For all his talents as a novelist and journalist, Shields is the kind of person whom no one—not in the pages of a book nor at a cocktail party—wants to hear talk about himself.
Pretentious as it is to invoke Proust in the first place, Shields has the audacity to imply that this flippant and overwrought compendium of randomness—by virtue of its nonlinear narrative progression and its narrator's subjective, selective memory— is somehow redolent of Proust's masterwork.
www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0218/arts-frizzelle.php   (623 words)

  
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The basic gist of the article is this: in 1997, Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Larson, Jerry's wife and daughter, respectively, filed to revoke the transfer of copyright on the Superman character given to DC in 1938.
If the character is going to be real, if he is ever going to be the great man beneath the glasses and the timid facade, then he has to have been such a person in his most formative years.
Perhaps it was the "police state" tone of the book and perhaps it was revisiting Hawkman, a character that DC has managed to turn into a continuity mess, but whatever it was, this issue was the weakest of the arc.
www.supermanhomepage.com /other/kryptonian-cybernet/kc65.txt   (21828 words)

  
 Shows handle actors' deaths in many different ways
A tribute episode, in which Brooke Shields' character and friends reflected on good times with Todd, aired in May of that year.
After Conrad died of cancer in 1983, his character died of a heart attack while making love to the widow of a fellow officer.
"Bonanza" -- The long-running western was dealt a double blow in 1972: Dan Blocker, whose character Hoss was to be married in the fall premiere, died at age 43 of a blood clot in the lung, and the Sunday staple was moved to Tuesdays.
www.post-gazette.com /tv/20030916tvdeathlist0916fnp6.asp   (834 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
Members of the team (including the head of the project, former Diablo II lead designer Stieg Hedlund) were able to give us a lengthy and detailed look at the game's many mechanics, and we came away intrigued by our experience.
Little of the final in-game character creation interface was in the demo version we saw, but we still got to look at all the creation features you can play around with.
Each god provides unique powers and special abilities to your character, all of which are entirely different from one another.
www.gamespot.com /pc/rpg/godsheroes/story.html?sid=6126362   (1346 words)

  
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 Mass Effect Xbox 360 Preview, Mass Effect Preview
After exiting the MAKO vehicle, Hudson took his party of three characters through another canyon and dispatched a bunch of foes inside the canyon.
At the demo's conclusion a giant, spiny, spider-like mechanical creature was dropped into the mission and guarded by a bunch of crawling creatures.
Hudson's tech-inclined character rushed in (he took control of the character himself) and disabled the creature's shields, at which point Hudson switched characters again, lifted the creature with special powers and blew it apart with the modified shotgun.
www.1up.com /do/previewPage?cId=3154092   (873 words)

  
 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When I'm not researching obscure character actors I'm running a charity that helps the poorest school libraries in the U.S. Believe it or not some haven't had a new book in 40 years!
Along with his brother Barry Fitzgerald, who he resembles, Arthur Shields was one of the most famous Irish character actors in Hollywood.
He made his film debut in 1918 in the British silent film Rafferty's Rise, but his career was mainly on the stage until he came to the U.S. in the 1930s.
www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982803692   (144 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Suddenly Donna! - 01.23.97
Technically, I have the same job that Brooke Shields does on her sitcom Suddenly Susan.
But still, like Susan, the character Shields plays, I am completely wacky and accident prone.
Quite frankly, an overly eager, insecure, slightly hysterical character such as Susan would last about 20 seconds in this city, where an innocent, enthusiastic babe could easily be mistaken for a menu item.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.23.97/news_views/necro.html   (710 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Shields Plays Lesbian In Lifetime Flick
After the child's mother dies, Shields' character enters into a custody battle for the child with her dead partner's grandparents.
The film, based on a true story, is set in Florida, which has laws against adoption by homosexual couples.
Shields starred in the recently-canceled NBC comedy "Suddenly Susan," which was on the air four years.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|60545|1|,00.html   (208 words)

  
 NPR : Novelist Carol Shields
Fresh Air from WHYY, May 1, 2002 · Novelist Carol Shields won a Pulitzer Prize for her best-selling novel, The Stone Diaries.
She also wrote a biography of Jane Austen as well as plays, poetry and story collections.
In 1998 Shields was diagnosed with breast cancer.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1142594   (167 words)

  
 Raven
Utilizing Radar and onboard computer, effective projection range of 200 meters from suit.
Shielding- Provides +2D to resist energy damage, must recharge for ten rounds after each hit to receive full bonus (Gains +1 on turn 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10= total +2D)
Character, 5 shots[3 blades per shot], fire Rate: 2, Range: 10-20/30/50 Damage 5D {may target 3 seperate targets in a 60 degree arc, seperate attack rolls, 3D damage each}
members.tripod.com /alexfoley/Blackhawk.html   (1366 words)

  
 Dolly Peel's Storefront - Lulu.com
DOLLY PEEL (1782 - 1857) Background to her Achievements
Dolly Peel (1782 - 1857) was a South Shields character in the North-East of England.
She was an opponent of the press-gangs; a sailor and a nurse in the Royal Navy; a smuggler; a public speaker; a poet; and a fishwife.
www.lulu.com /SHIELDS   (150 words)

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