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In tabletop games and video games, a character class is an occupation, profession, or role assigned to a game character to highlight and differentiate their capabilities and specializations. [ 1 ] In role-playing games (RPGs), character classes aggregate several abilities and aptitudes , and may also detail aspects of background and social ...
Trenton Webb reviewed Shaman for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. [1] According to Webb, the book "rewrites the earth magic AD&D rules. Out go the pilfered priests spells and mumbo jumbo of the Barbarian's and Humanoid's Handbooks, and in comes a batch of very different magic and brand-new mumbo jumbo."
A miko (), or shrine maiden, [1] [2] is a young priestess [3] who works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, [4] but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized [5] role in daily life, trained to perform tasks, ranging from sacred cleansing [4] to performing the sacred Kagura dance.
The profession system reflects the late medieval/early Renaissance setting of the game and gives an idea of what a character might have been doing either before or during their adventures (such as a preacher, coachman, courtier, inquisitor, merchant lord, rat catcher or sellsword).
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
SS.11 anti-tank missile-launcher version of the French tank AMX-13. The first combat use of the SS.11 was in 1956 by the French Air Force, fired from a Dassault MD 311 light twin-engine transport, as a method of attacking fortified caves located in steep mountain gorges during the Algerian war.
Shaman King was voted the sixth best anime of 2001 by Animage readers. [140] In 2005, Japanese television network TV Asahi conducted a "Top 100" online web poll and the Shaman King anime adaptation placed 47th. [141] Moreover, approximately 165 million cards from the Shaman King trading card game were sold in Japan. [103] [142]
The shaman's song – or largish [20] in Tuvan – is personal to the shaman [21] and tells of her or his birthplace, initiation, ancestral pedigree, special gifts, and special connections to particular spirits. The melody and words are composed by the shaman and generally remain the same throughout the shaman's professional life.