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  2. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]

  3. Fate (role-playing game system) - Wikipedia

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    An example given in the rule book refers to the GM invoking a player character's Rivals in the Collegia Arcana aspect to have said rivals attack them in the bath so they don't have access to their equipment. Situational aspects describe the scene, and may be created and used by the GM, or by players using the create advantage action with a ...

  4. Attribute (role-playing games) - Wikipedia

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    While a character rarely rolls a check using just an ability score, these scores, and the modifiers they create, affect nearly every aspect of a character's skills and abilities." [2] In some games, such as older versions of Dungeons & Dragons the attribute is used on its own to determine outcomes, whereas in many games, beginning with Bunnies ...

  5. Luck and fate in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    The lives of the characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth appear variously to be driven by luck or by fate.This is arranged in such a way that the characters' free will is never compromised; they must rely on their own courage, just like Old English heroes like Beowulf and figures from Norse mythology.

  6. The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game - Wikipedia

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    The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game is a licensed role-playing game based on The Dresden Files and using the Fate system.It was released in late 2010 in two hardcover volumes: Your Story with the rules information and Our World with setting information, and won numerous awards at all of the Origins Awards, the ENnies, and the Golden Geek Awards.

  7. Protagonist - Wikipedia

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    The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a ...

  8. List of Fablehaven characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of characters in the Fablehaven fantasy novel series by Brandon Mull. This information has been categorized into the books the characters were first introduced, in order of appearance. Because several of the characters exist in multiple books, this list will stick to an introduction of the characters, rather than give too much ...

  9. Naturalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Naturalism includes detachment, in which the author maintains an impersonal tone and disinterested point of view; determinism, which is defined as the opposite of free will, in which a character's fate has been decided, even predetermined, by impersonal forces of nature beyond human control; and a sense that the universe itself is indifferent ...