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A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs). The actions of non-player characters are ...
A game mechanic in games where the player advances in level, which alters the attributes of a player character or opponents so that there is a similar challenge in combat. If the player character is several levels higher, either the enemy would be buffed or the player's abilities nerfed so that the challenge would be similar. The player would ...
Media controls on a multimedia keyboard. From top; left to right: skip backward, skip forward, stop, play/pause. Media control symbols are commonly found on both software and physical media players, remote controls, and multimedia keyboards. Their application is described in ISO/IEC 18035. [ 1]
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
A non-player character ( NPC ), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player. [ 1] The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster or referee rather than by another player. In video games, this usually means a ...
The asterisk ( / ˈæstərɪsk / * ), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [ 1][ 2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star .
Roger, a character in the novel Lord of the Flies, Jack's lieutenant and the tribe's torturer/hangman. Roger ( Tekken), a kangaroo character from the Tekken fighting game series, and Roger Jr., his son. Roger Ackroyd, title character of Agatha Christie's novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text. The entity must either be predefined (built into the markup language) or explicitly declared in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name;