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Royal Wine Company The Royal Wine Company, also known as Kedem, is a Kosher food manufacturing and distribution company, incorporated in the United States for the last fifty years, started by the Pluczenik brothers in the 1940s and run by the Herzog family since 1958.
Royal Wolverhampton School The Royal Wolverhampton School began life as The Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum in 1850. It was founded by John Lees, a local lock-manufacturer and freemason, after a cholera epidemic ravaged the town and left many children orphaned.
Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne The Royal Women's Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, is Australia's largest specialist women's hospital, offering a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care and women's health. It is a major teaching hospital with links to the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University.
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, is the largest yacht club in the Australian state of Tasmania, and is best known for its role as the finishing destination for the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. The club sports a range of facilities, from an 120-berth marina to on-site maintenance facilities.
Royal-Thomian The Royal-Thomian (the Royal versus S. Thomas' Cricket Match), the annual cricket match between Royal College, Colombo (a government-run non-denominational school accommodates approximately 8,000 students, making it the largest school in Sri Lanka) and S.
Royal-Treatment Royal-Treatment is a rapper who got his start in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He performed over 70 shows while based in the Thunder Bay hip hop scene, won numerous MC battles and co-hosted CILU's top rated radio show, Tha Realness, for two years.
Royale Airlines Royale Airlines was a small commuter airline that operated in Louisiana and Texas in the 1970's and 1980's. It flew mainly turboprop aircraft such as the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante , Beechcraft 99 and Grumman Gulfstream I.
Royall Tyler Royall Tyler (June 18, 1757 – August 26, 1826), American jurist and playwright who wrote The Contrast in 1787 and published The Algerine Captive in 1797. He also wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, a semifictional travel narrative, The Yankey in London (1809), and essays.
Royalties Royalties, sometimes simply referred to as 'royalty' is typically the sum of money paid to the proprietor or Licensor of Intellectual Property (IP) Rights for the benefits derived, or sought to be derived, by the user (the Licensee) through the exercise of such rights. Royalties may be paid for the use of copyright, patent, registered design, knowhow, trademark or a combination of them.
Royalton Raid The Royalton Raid was a British-led Indian raid in 1780 against various towns along the White River Valley, Vermont, and was part of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major Indian raid in New England.
Royalty Digest Royalty Digest was a monthly journal, featuring articles and reviews on British and European royalty from around 1800 to the present day. Edited and published by Paul Minet of Piccadilly Rare Books, Kent, the first issue appeared in July 1991 and the last in June 2005.
Royalty free Royalty-free describes material (typically graphics such as stock photography and icons, but also sound such as music loop samples) that may be used for profit, without paying royalties. Royalty-free media is usually acquired for a 'one time only' fee, although public domain imagery and many works created under a copyleft license are also usable without paying royalties or an initial fee.
Royalty rate assessment Royalty Rate Assessment is a practical tool to gauge the impact of a royalty commitment in a technology contract to the business interests of the contracting parties. In this coverage, the terms 'royalty rate' and 'royalty' are used interchangeably.
Royalty trust A royalty trust is a type of corporation usually involved in mining. It is taxed according to special regulations, whereby its profits are not taxed at the corporate level provided a certain high percentage (e.
Royalty Theatre The Royalty Theatre was a London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. An earlier theatre also named the Royalty existed in Wells Street, Wellclose Square, London from 1787 until the early part of the nineteenth century.
Royapuram Royapuram, a locality of Chennai, South India, is the place where the first railway station of south India was constructed, and from where the laying down of the second railway line of the South Asia commenced in 1850s. This railway line extended from Royapuram (Madras) to Arcot, then capital of the Carnatic region.
Royce Clayton Royce Spencer Clayton (born January 2 1970 in Burbank, California) is a journeyman major league shortstop. He was drafted in the first round (15th pick overall) of the 1988 amateur draft by the San Francisco Giants, and made his major league debut for the Giants on September 9, 1991.
Royce Gracie Royce Gracie, pronounced Hoyce Gracie, (born December 12, 1966) is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Gracie became well-known in the mid 1990s with a string of submission victories over larger opponents in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1929, it is one of the four original buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus and has come to be the defining image of the university.
Royce Hall Auditorium Los Angeles, CA 4/25/05 The second in a series of official bootlegs released by Tori Amos. Each official bootleg is a double-disc package recorded during her "Original Sinsuality" and "Summer of Sin" tours brimming with live rarities, fan favorites and stunning cover versions.
Royce Simmons Royce Simmons is a former Australian rugby league test hooker, New South Wales representative and long-serving Penrith Panthers player in the National Rugby League (then known as the New South Wales Rugby League).
Roycemore School Roycemore School is a privately funded co-ed college preparatory school located in Evanston, Illinois for grades junior kindergarten through grade 12 of high school. It is non-sectarian and has an average student population of 250 students.
Roycroft Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo.
Royd Moor Wind Farm The Royd Moor Wind Farm windfarm is located at Penistone, South Yorkshire and consists of thirteen 500 kW turbines. The site is located approximately 6 km north west of Penistone, above the A616 trunk road between Sheffield and Manchester.
Roydell Williams Roydell Williams (born March 14, 1981 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans of the NFL. He was originally selected with the 35th pick of the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Tulane University.
Royersford, Pennsylvania Royersford is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River. The town drew its name from the location of a ford across the Schuylkill River, which happened to be adjacent to land owned by the Royer family.
Royson James Royson James is the municipal affairs columnist of the Toronto Star, a major metropolitan newspaper in Toronto, Ontario. Before becoming a columnist, he worked at the Toronto Star covering municipal politics in Scarborough, North York and Metropolitan Toronto, and later served on the newspaper's editorial board.
Royston Cave Royston cave is a small but absorbingly interesting artificial cave in Royston in Hertfordshire, England. It was almost certainly used by the Knights Templar, who are also thought to have founded nearby Baldock.
Royston Maldoom Royston Maldoom (born in London in 1943) is a British choreographer whose works, including Adagietto and Ursprung, have been performed for various dance companies, such as The Jefferson Dancers and Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Royston railway station Royston railway station serves the town of Royston in Hertfordshire, England. The station is 72 km (45 miles) north east of London Kings Cross and 21 km (13 miles) west of Cambridge on First Capital Connect's "London King's Cross to Cambridge Line".
Roystonea Roystonea (Royal Palm) is a genus of 10-12 species of palms, native to tropical regions of Florida, the Caribbean, and the adjacent coasts of Central and South America. They are sometimes referred to as Bottle palms due to their shape.
Royton Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England."Official British Place Name Archives - Royton", Greater Manchester County Records Office - URL accessed October 28, 2006.
Royton (UK Parliament constituency) Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Royton district of Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Royton C.C. Royton Cricket Club are an English cricket team, based in the Royton area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. The team has entered teams at every level, for the 2005 season in the Central Lancashire League.
Roz Chast Roz Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker.
Roz Kelly Roz Kelly (born July 29 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York) is best known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli's (Henry Winkler) girlfriend Pinky Tuscadero on the hit television series Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984 on ABC.
Roza Bal Roza Bal is the name of a shrine located in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, in Kashmir, India, venerated by Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. Some religious sects, notably the Ahmadi Muslims identify the sage buried there with one Yuz Asaf and with Jesus, whom they allege to have fled to Kashmir after his crucifixion.
Roza Otunbayeva Roza Isakovna Otunbaeva (Russian: Роза ĐŃаковна ОтŃнбаева; born August 23, 1950, Osh, Kyrgyzstan) is a former foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan and the current co-chairwoman of the country's Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement. She is married with two children.
Roza Robota Roza Robota (1921–January 5, 1945), referred to in other sources as Rojza, Rozia, or Rosa, was one of four women hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for their role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944. Born in Ciechanów, Poland, she was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist-socialist youth movement, and joined that movement's underground upon the Nazi occupation.
Rozafati In the background of the city of Shkodra, in northwestern Albania, the "Rozafa" castle rises imposingly on a rocky hill, 130 meters above sea level. It seems as if iron claws keep it on the steep rocks surrounded by the Buna and Drini rivers.
Rozalia Galiyeva Rozaliya Il'fovna Galiyeva or Roza Galieva (Russian: Розалия Đльфовна Галиева) (born April 28 1977 in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR) is a Russian gymnast who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Rozelle Bay MLR station, Sydney Rozelle Bay is a light rail stop located in the suburb of Annandale on the Metro Light Rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station has two platforms, one for services to Lilyfield, the other for services to Central.
Rozelle, New South Wales Rozelle is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4kms west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt.
Rozhdestvenskiy (crater) Rozhdestvenskiy is a large lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, within less than one crater diameter of the north pole. It lies sandwiched between Hermite crater along the eastern rim, and Plaskett crater which intrudes slightly into the west-southwestern rim.
Rozhen Monastery The Rozhen Monastery (Bulgarian: РоженŃки манаŃтир) is the biggest monastery in the Pirin Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria. It is one of the few medieval Bulgarian monasteries well preserved until today.
Rozhen National Folklore Fair The Rozhen National Folklore Fair (, Natsionalen folkloren sabor „Rozhen“) is a major Bulgarian folklore fair held every four years on the meadows of the Rozhen area in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan Province, in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria. The fair's goal is to popularize the Bulgarian folk dance and song art and it lasts for two days in August.
Rozhen Peninsula Rozhen Peninsula (Poluostrov Rozhen po-lu-'os-trov 'ro-zhen) extends 9 km in the SW direction towards Barnard Point, Livingston Island, Antarctica. It is bounded by False Bay to the W, and by Brunow Bay and Bransfield Strait to the SE.
Rozière balloon [drawing for Virgin] Global Challenger balloon.The Rozière balloon (or simply Rozière) is a type of hybrid balloon that has separate chambers for a non-heated lifting gas (such as hydrogen or helium) as well as a heated lifting gas (as used in a hot air balloon.
Rozonda Thomas Rozonda Ocelean Thomas (born February 27, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia to a father of Guyanese descent, and an African American mother) is an American R&B singer and actress; best known under the pseudonym, "Chilli."
Roztocze Roztocze (Ukrainian Розточчя) is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward across the border into Ukraine. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 180 km long and 14 km wide.
Rozz Tox Manifesto Written by Gary Panter in the 1980s, the Rozz Tox Manifesto is an essay written in a stream of consciousness style. The manifesto rejects the notion of the artist as bohemian — instead, an artist is encouraged to work within capitalism to reach a larger market.
Rozz Williams Rozz Williams (November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) born Roger Alan Painter, was an American rock vocalist, most famous for fronting the bands Christian Death and Shadow Project, the latter with his then wife; Eva O.
Rozzol Rozzol in Valle and Rozzol in Monte are neighborhoods in Trieste, Italy. Other neighborhoods include: Servola, Scorcola, San Giusto, Campi Elisi, San Vito, Grignano, Chiadino, Guardiella, Roiano, Gretta, Barcola, Longera, Sottolongera, Chiarbola, Campanelle, Altura, Cacciatore, Monte Radio, Sottomonte, Bovedo, Cedas, Scala Santa, Borgo San Sergio, San Luigi, Cologna, Valmaura, Borgo Teresiano, Cattinara, Le Rive, San Giovanni, San Giacomo and probably others.
ROAM ROAM, or Real Time Optimally Adapting Mesh, is a continuous level of detail algorithm that optimizes terrain meshes. On modern computers, sometimes it is more effective to send a small amount of unneeded polygons to the GPU, rather than burden the CPU with LOD calculations -- making algorithms like geomipmapping more effective than ROAM.
ROBO ROBO (born Roberto Valverde in 1955His year of birth is found in the timeline of MisfitsCentral.com in Cali, Colombia) was the third drummer for punk legends Black Flag, performing on the EPs Jealous Again, Six Pack, their first full length Damaged; and Everything Went Black.
ROC analysis Receiver operating characteristic analysis (ROC analysis) provides tools to select possibly optimal models and to discard suboptimal ones independently from (and prior to specifying) the cost context or the class distribution.
ROCS Chang Chien (FFG-1109) ROCS Chang Chien (張騫, FFG-1109) is the seventh of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in June, 1996 and launched in April, 1997, Chang Chien was commissioned in service in November, 1998.
ROCS Cheng Ho (FFG-1103) The second of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down on December 21, 1991 and launched on October 15, 1992, Cheng Ho (é„ĺ’Ś) was commissioned in service on March 28, 1994.
ROCS Cheng Kung (FFG-1101) ROCS Cheng Kung (ć功, FFG-1101) is the lead ship of eight Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigates, which are based on the Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design of United States Navy. Laid down on December 2, 1990 and launched on October 27, 1991, Cheng Kung was commissioned in service on May 7, 1993.
ROCS Chi Kuang (FFG-1105) The third of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down on October 4, 1992 and launched on September 27, 1993, Chi Kuang (繼光) was commissioned in service on March 7, 1995.
ROCS Pan Chao (FFG-1108) ROCS Pan Chao (çŹč¶…, FFG-1108) is the sixth of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in July, 1995 and launched in May, 1996, Pan Chao was commissioned in service in December, 1997.
ROCS Tian Dan (FFG-1110) ROCS Tian Dan (ç”°ĺ–®, FFG-1110) is the eighth and final ship of Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigate of the Republic of China Navy, which was based on Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design of the United States Navy. Tian Dan was laid down in December 2001, launched in October 2002, and commissioned in service on March 11, 2004.
ROCS Tzu I (FFG-1107) ROCS Tzu I (ĺĺ„€, FFG-1107) is the fifth of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in August 7, 1994 and launched in July, 1995, Tzu I was commissioned in service in January, 1997.
ROF Patricroft The Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Patricroft, was an Engineering factory and was classified as a Medium Machine Shop. It was located in Patricroft, near the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England; adjacent to both the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal.
ROF Pembrey A World War I explosive factory, which was to be later known as NEF Pembrey was built, by Nobels Explosives, with British Government approval, near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The factory was built on a site consisting of mainly sandhills and sand dunes to provide some protection against damage caused by an explosion.
ROF Ranskill The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Ranskill was a UK Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF. It was located adjacent to what is now known as the East Coast Main Line railway at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, just north of the town of Retford.
ROH World Tag Team Championship The ROH World Tag Team Championship is the tag team title contested for in the independent professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor. The current champions are the team of Matt Sydal and Christopher Daniels.
ROHC Robust Header Compression (ROHC) is a standardized method to compress the IP, UDP, RTP, and TCP headers of Internet packets. This compression scheme differs from other compression schemes such as IETF RFC 1144 and RFC 2508 by the fact that it performs well over links where the packet loss rate is high, such as wireless links.
ROiL ROiL is a performance art troupe started in Portland, Maine now also based in Ithaca, New York and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "ROiL" is not an acronym; it is a verb meaning "to incite change; to stir things up.
ROIR ROIR (pronounced "roar"), or Reach Out International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in the early 1980s by Neil Cooper. Most of ROIR's early catalog consists of punk rock and No Wave releases, but the label branched out into other genres including industrial music, gothic rock, and, especially, dub reggae.
ROM hacking ROM hacking is the process of modifying a video game ROM image to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, or other gameplay elements. This is usually done by technically-inclined video game fans to breathe new life into a cherished old game, as a creative outlet, or to make essentially new unofficial games using an old game as a foundation.
ROM image A ROM image, or simply ROM, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequently used in the context of emulation, whereby older games or computer firmware are copied to ROM files on modern computers and can, using a piece of software known as an emulator, be run on the newer computer.
ROM-Mark The ROM-Mark is a physical layer technology intended to prevent stamping of unauthorized disc titles by pirates. The ROM Mark is a unique identifier embedded in pre-recorded ROM media discs such as movies, music and games.
ROMA Representational Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis (ROMA) is a technique that was developed by Michael Wigler and Rob Lucito at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2003. Wigler and Lucito currently run laboratories at CSHL using ROMA to explore genomic copy number variation in cancer and other genetic diseases.
ROMBAC 1-11 The ROMBAC 1-11 was a Romanian-built version of the short-range passenger British civilian airliner BAC 1-11. It was built at the Romaero plant in Bucharest between 1982 and 1989 under licence from the British Aircraft Corporation.
ROMP The ROMP or Research (Office Products Division) Micro Processor chip, also known in some circles as 032, was first in silicon in 1981 and was originally designed to be used in office products. It was intended as a follow-on to a mid-1970's processor called the "OPD Mini Processor", which was used in text editing systems such as the IBM Office System/6 and DisplayWriter.
ROOT ROOT is an object-oriented software package developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to this field, but it is also commonly used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining.
RORSAT Radar-equipped Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite or RORSAT is the western name given to the Soviet Upravlenniye Sputnik-Aktivny (US-A) satellites. These satellites were launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using active radar.
ROSE Upgrade Pakistan Air Force bought 50 ex-Australian, Lebanese, Libyan and French Mirage IIIs . The project "ROSE" (Retrofit of Strike Element") was set up to reclaim as many airplanes as possible and to upgrade them with latest avionics.
ROSSEM ROSSEM was a Belgian libertine political party founded in 1991 by the maverick Flemish businessman and writer Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. The acronym 'ROSSEM' stood for 'Radicale Omvormers and Sociale Strijders voor een Eerlijker Maatschappij" which can loosely be translated as "radical reformists and social fighters for a fairer society".
ROT13 ROT13 ("rotate by 13 places", usually hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple Caesar cipher used for obscuring text by replacing each letter with the letter thirteen places down the alphabet. A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on up to M, which becomes Z, then the sequence reverses: N becomes A, O becomes B, and so on to Z, which becomes M.
ROVER ROVER, which stands for Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, is a system which allows ground forces, such as Forward Air Controllers (FAC), to see what an aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is seeing in real time by receiving images acquired by the aircraft's sensors on a laptop on the ground. There's no time delay and usage of ROVER greatly improves the FAC on the ground reconnaissance and target identification which are essential to close air support.
Rp-process The rp process (rapid proton capture process) consists of consecutive proton captures onto seed nuclei to produce heavier elements. It is a nucleosynthesis process and, along with the s process and the r process, is responsible for the generation of many of the heavy elements present in the universe.
Rpath (linking) rpath is a term in computer science which refers to a runtime search path hardcoded in an executable file or library, used during dynamic linking to find the libraries and the executable file or library requires. It is inserted in the executable or library at link-time.
Rprop Rprop, short for resilient backpropagation, is a learning heuristics for supervised learning in artificial neural networks. Similarly to the Manhattan update rule, Rprop takes into account only the sign of the partial derivative over all patterns (not the size).
RP-3 The RP-3 (for "Rocket Projectile 3"), was a British air to ground rocket used in the Second World War. The use of a 60 lb (27 kg) warhead gave it the alternatively name of the "60 lb rocket".
RP7 RP7 is a multi purpose lubricating and penetrating spray which displaces water and inhibits corrosion. It is manufactured by the Australian company Selleys and is marketed in Australia as a superior alternative to WD-40.
RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates) RPA is the largest independent advertising] agency on the West Coast. Based in [[Santa Monica, California, the agency bills over $1 billion dollars annually via disciplines including traditional advertising, interactive, direct and event marketing.
RPG Gateway RPG Gateway, part of the RPG Nexxus site network, is a human-edited global niche directory, specializing in role playing games and related content. The purpose of RPG Gateway is to provide a single resource listing all RPG and RPG-related sites for gamers.
RPG Maker (series) is the name of the expansive series of programs for the development of computer role-playing games (RPGs) created by the Japanese group ASCII, part of the company Enterbrain. The Japanese name, TsukĹ«ru is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with sukĹ«ru (ă‚ąă‚ŻăĽă«), the phonetic pronunciation of the English word "school".
RPG Maker 2003 RPG Maker 2003 is the third in the series of programs for the development of Role-Playing Games, developed by the Japanese group ASCII. It features a database of pre-made backgrounds, music, animations, weapons, characters, and more.
RPG Makers An RPG Maker is a software program intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a computer role-playing game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, etc.
RPG-X RPG-X is a third party modification for Raven Softwares title Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force. It essentially removes all of the frag related functions of Elite Force for the purpose of turning the game into a computer role-playing game.
RPG.NET RPGnet is one of the oldest and largest role-playing game websites on the Internet. It was founded in 1996 by Emma and Sandy Antunes, Shawn Althouse (etrigan) and Brian David Phillips, as a way to unify a number of transient game sites.
RPGamer RPGamer is a media and news website dedicated to covering computer and video game RPGs. Its coverage includes North American game news, European game news, Asian game news, gaming industry news, game reviews, game previews, hands-on game impressions, gaming conventions, game merchandise, release dates, contests, and interviews.
RPGA The RPGA, or Role-Playing Games Association, is a marketing arm of Wizards of the Coast which organizes and sanctions role-playing games worldwide, principally under the d20 system. The group was founded in November 1980 by Frank Mentzer of TSR, Inc.
RPGClassics RPGClassics is a website that was launched in 1997 by six people to cover the Final Fantasy series, and has since then grown to cover over 100 games. It feature shrines, which are sections of the site that provide extensive information about a single RPG, including game data, walkthroughs, and tips.
RPGds RPGds (Role Playing Game Development Studio) is a cross-platform Role Playing Game development environment created and maintained by Akuma No Houkon. It has been written in the C++ programming language and utilizes OpenGL for engine rendering.
RPGFan RPGFan is a website devoted to electronic role-playing games, including console games and PC games, both domestic and imported. Its content includes previews, reviews, and news of recent and upcoming RPG releases.
RPGMP3 RPGMP3 is a role-playing game podcast website. The site records and podcasts audio sessions of several modern and classic RPG campaigns, most recently and notably an audio review of the Alderac Entertainment Group Dungeons & Dragons campaign, The World's Largest Dungeon.
Royal Wolverhampton School The Royal Wolverhampton School began life as The Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum in 1850. It was founded by John Lees, a local lock-manufacturer and freemason, after a cholera epidemic ravaged the town and left many children orphaned.
Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne The Royal Women's Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, is Australia's largest specialist women's hospital, offering a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care and women's health. It is a major teaching hospital with links to the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University.
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, is the largest yacht club in the Australian state of Tasmania, and is best known for its role as the finishing destination for the annual Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. The club sports a range of facilities, from an 120-berth marina to on-site maintenance facilities.
Royal-Thomian The Royal-Thomian (the Royal versus S. Thomas' Cricket Match), the annual cricket match between Royal College, Colombo (a government-run non-denominational school accommodates approximately 8,000 students, making it the largest school in Sri Lanka) and S.
Royal-Treatment Royal-Treatment is a rapper who got his start in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He performed over 70 shows while based in the Thunder Bay hip hop scene, won numerous MC battles and co-hosted CILU's top rated radio show, Tha Realness, for two years.
Royale Airlines Royale Airlines was a small commuter airline that operated in Louisiana and Texas in the 1970's and 1980's. It flew mainly turboprop aircraft such as the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante , Beechcraft 99 and Grumman Gulfstream I.
Royall Tyler Royall Tyler (June 18, 1757 – August 26, 1826), American jurist and playwright who wrote The Contrast in 1787 and published The Algerine Captive in 1797. He also wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, a semifictional travel narrative, The Yankey in London (1809), and essays.
Royalties Royalties, sometimes simply referred to as 'royalty' is typically the sum of money paid to the proprietor or Licensor of Intellectual Property (IP) Rights for the benefits derived, or sought to be derived, by the user (the Licensee) through the exercise of such rights. Royalties may be paid for the use of copyright, patent, registered design, knowhow, trademark or a combination of them.
Royalton Raid The Royalton Raid was a British-led Indian raid in 1780 against various towns along the White River Valley, Vermont, and was part of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major Indian raid in New England.
Royalty Digest Royalty Digest was a monthly journal, featuring articles and reviews on British and European royalty from around 1800 to the present day. Edited and published by Paul Minet of Piccadilly Rare Books, Kent, the first issue appeared in July 1991 and the last in June 2005.
Royalty free Royalty-free describes material (typically graphics such as stock photography and icons, but also sound such as music loop samples) that may be used for profit, without paying royalties. Royalty-free media is usually acquired for a 'one time only' fee, although public domain imagery and many works created under a copyleft license are also usable without paying royalties or an initial fee.
Royalty rate assessment Royalty Rate Assessment is a practical tool to gauge the impact of a royalty commitment in a technology contract to the business interests of the contracting parties. In this coverage, the terms 'royalty rate' and 'royalty' are used interchangeably.
Royalty trust A royalty trust is a type of corporation usually involved in mining. It is taxed according to special regulations, whereby its profits are not taxed at the corporate level provided a certain high percentage (e.
Royalty Theatre The Royalty Theatre was a London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. An earlier theatre also named the Royalty existed in Wells Street, Wellclose Square, London from 1787 until the early part of the nineteenth century.
Royapuram Royapuram, a locality of Chennai, South India, is the place where the first railway station of south India was constructed, and from where the laying down of the second railway line of the South Asia commenced in 1850s. This railway line extended from Royapuram (Madras) to Arcot, then capital of the Carnatic region.
Royce Clayton Royce Spencer Clayton (born January 2 1970 in Burbank, California) is a journeyman major league shortstop. He was drafted in the first round (15th pick overall) of the 1988 amateur draft by the San Francisco Giants, and made his major league debut for the Giants on September 9, 1991.
Royce Gracie Royce Gracie, pronounced Hoyce Gracie, (born December 12, 1966) is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. Gracie became well-known in the mid 1990s with a string of submission victories over larger opponents in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1929, it is one of the four original buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus and has come to be the defining image of the university.
Royce Hall Auditorium Los Angeles, CA 4/25/05 The second in a series of official bootlegs released by Tori Amos. Each official bootleg is a double-disc package recorded during her "Original Sinsuality" and "Summer of Sin" tours brimming with live rarities, fan favorites and stunning cover versions.
Royce Simmons Royce Simmons is a former Australian rugby league test hooker, New South Wales representative and long-serving Penrith Panthers player in the National Rugby League (then known as the New South Wales Rugby League).
Roycemore School Roycemore School is a privately funded co-ed college preparatory school located in Evanston, Illinois for grades junior kindergarten through grade 12 of high school. It is non-sectarian and has an average student population of 250 students.
Roycroft Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo.
Royd Moor Wind Farm The Royd Moor Wind Farm windfarm is located at Penistone, South Yorkshire and consists of thirteen 500 kW turbines. The site is located approximately 6 km north west of Penistone, above the A616 trunk road between Sheffield and Manchester.
Roydell Williams Roydell Williams (born March 14, 1981 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American football wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans of the NFL. He was originally selected with the 35th pick of the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Tulane University.
Royersford, Pennsylvania Royersford is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River. The town drew its name from the location of a ford across the Schuylkill River, which happened to be adjacent to land owned by the Royer family.
Royson James Royson James is the municipal affairs columnist of the Toronto Star, a major metropolitan newspaper in Toronto, Ontario. Before becoming a columnist, he worked at the Toronto Star covering municipal politics in Scarborough, North York and Metropolitan Toronto, and later served on the newspaper's editorial board.
Royston Cave Royston cave is a small but absorbingly interesting artificial cave in Royston in Hertfordshire, England. It was almost certainly used by the Knights Templar, who are also thought to have founded nearby Baldock.
Royston Maldoom Royston Maldoom (born in London in 1943) is a British choreographer whose works, including Adagietto and Ursprung, have been performed for various dance companies, such as The Jefferson Dancers and Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Royston railway station Royston railway station serves the town of Royston in Hertfordshire, England. The station is 72 km (45 miles) north east of London Kings Cross and 21 km (13 miles) west of Cambridge on First Capital Connect's "London King's Cross to Cambridge Line".
Roystonea Roystonea (Royal Palm) is a genus of 10-12 species of palms, native to tropical regions of Florida, the Caribbean, and the adjacent coasts of Central and South America. They are sometimes referred to as Bottle palms due to their shape.
Royton Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England."Official British Place Name Archives - Royton", Greater Manchester County Records Office - URL accessed October 28, 2006.
Royton (UK Parliament constituency) Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Royton district of Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Royton C.C. Royton Cricket Club are an English cricket team, based in the Royton area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. The team has entered teams at every level, for the 2005 season in the Central Lancashire League.
Roz Chast Roz Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker.
Roz Kelly Roz Kelly (born July 29 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York) is best known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli's (Henry Winkler) girlfriend Pinky Tuscadero on the hit television series Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984 on ABC.
Roza Bal Roza Bal is the name of a shrine located in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, in Kashmir, India, venerated by Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. Some religious sects, notably the Ahmadi Muslims identify the sage buried there with one Yuz Asaf and with Jesus, whom they allege to have fled to Kashmir after his crucifixion.
Roza Otunbayeva Roza Isakovna Otunbaeva (Russian: Роза ĐŃаковна ОтŃнбаева; born August 23, 1950, Osh, Kyrgyzstan) is a former foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan and the current co-chairwoman of the country's Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement. She is married with two children.
Roza Robota Roza Robota (1921–January 5, 1945), referred to in other sources as Rojza, Rozia, or Rosa, was one of four women hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for their role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944. Born in Ciechanów, Poland, she was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist-socialist youth movement, and joined that movement's underground upon the Nazi occupation.
Rozafati In the background of the city of Shkodra, in northwestern Albania, the "Rozafa" castle rises imposingly on a rocky hill, 130 meters above sea level. It seems as if iron claws keep it on the steep rocks surrounded by the Buna and Drini rivers.
Rozalia Galiyeva Rozaliya Il'fovna Galiyeva or Roza Galieva (Russian: Розалия Đльфовна Галиева) (born April 28 1977 in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR) is a Russian gymnast who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Rozelle Bay MLR station, Sydney Rozelle Bay is a light rail stop located in the suburb of Annandale on the Metro Light Rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station has two platforms, one for services to Lilyfield, the other for services to Central.
Rozelle, New South Wales Rozelle is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4kms west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt.
Rozhdestvenskiy (crater) Rozhdestvenskiy is a large lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, within less than one crater diameter of the north pole. It lies sandwiched between Hermite crater along the eastern rim, and Plaskett crater which intrudes slightly into the west-southwestern rim.
Rozhen Monastery The Rozhen Monastery (Bulgarian: РоженŃки манаŃтир) is the biggest monastery in the Pirin Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria. It is one of the few medieval Bulgarian monasteries well preserved until today.
Rozhen National Folklore Fair The Rozhen National Folklore Fair (, Natsionalen folkloren sabor „Rozhen“) is a major Bulgarian folklore fair held every four years on the meadows of the Rozhen area in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan Province, in the Rhodope Mountains of southern Bulgaria. The fair's goal is to popularize the Bulgarian folk dance and song art and it lasts for two days in August.
Rozhen Peninsula Rozhen Peninsula (Poluostrov Rozhen po-lu-'os-trov 'ro-zhen) extends 9 km in the SW direction towards Barnard Point, Livingston Island, Antarctica. It is bounded by False Bay to the W, and by Brunow Bay and Bransfield Strait to the SE.
Rozière balloon [drawing for Virgin] Global Challenger balloon.The Rozière balloon (or simply Rozière) is a type of hybrid balloon that has separate chambers for a non-heated lifting gas (such as hydrogen or helium) as well as a heated lifting gas (as used in a hot air balloon.
Rozonda Thomas Rozonda Ocelean Thomas (born February 27, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia to a father of Guyanese descent, and an African American mother) is an American R&B singer and actress; best known under the pseudonym, "Chilli."
Roztocze Roztocze (Ukrainian Розточчя) is a range of hills in east-central Poland and western Ukraine which rises from the Lublin Upland and extends southeastward across the border into Ukraine. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 180 km long and 14 km wide.
Rozz Tox Manifesto Written by Gary Panter in the 1980s, the Rozz Tox Manifesto is an essay written in a stream of consciousness style. The manifesto rejects the notion of the artist as bohemian — instead, an artist is encouraged to work within capitalism to reach a larger market.
Rozz Williams Rozz Williams (November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) born Roger Alan Painter, was an American rock vocalist, most famous for fronting the bands Christian Death and Shadow Project, the latter with his then wife; Eva O.
Rozzol Rozzol in Valle and Rozzol in Monte are neighborhoods in Trieste, Italy. Other neighborhoods include: Servola, Scorcola, San Giusto, Campi Elisi, San Vito, Grignano, Chiadino, Guardiella, Roiano, Gretta, Barcola, Longera, Sottolongera, Chiarbola, Campanelle, Altura, Cacciatore, Monte Radio, Sottomonte, Bovedo, Cedas, Scala Santa, Borgo San Sergio, San Luigi, Cologna, Valmaura, Borgo Teresiano, Cattinara, Le Rive, San Giovanni, San Giacomo and probably others.
ROAM ROAM, or Real Time Optimally Adapting Mesh, is a continuous level of detail algorithm that optimizes terrain meshes. On modern computers, sometimes it is more effective to send a small amount of unneeded polygons to the GPU, rather than burden the CPU with LOD calculations -- making algorithms like geomipmapping more effective than ROAM.
ROBO ROBO (born Roberto Valverde in 1955His year of birth is found in the timeline of MisfitsCentral.com in Cali, Colombia) was the third drummer for punk legends Black Flag, performing on the EPs Jealous Again, Six Pack, their first full length Damaged; and Everything Went Black.
ROC analysis Receiver operating characteristic analysis (ROC analysis) provides tools to select possibly optimal models and to discard suboptimal ones independently from (and prior to specifying) the cost context or the class distribution.
ROCS Chang Chien (FFG-1109) ROCS Chang Chien (張騫, FFG-1109) is the seventh of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in June, 1996 and launched in April, 1997, Chang Chien was commissioned in service in November, 1998.
ROCS Cheng Ho (FFG-1103) The second of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down on December 21, 1991 and launched on October 15, 1992, Cheng Ho (é„ĺ’Ś) was commissioned in service on March 28, 1994.
ROCS Cheng Kung (FFG-1101) ROCS Cheng Kung (ć功, FFG-1101) is the lead ship of eight Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigates, which are based on the Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design of United States Navy. Laid down on December 2, 1990 and launched on October 27, 1991, Cheng Kung was commissioned in service on May 7, 1993.
ROCS Chi Kuang (FFG-1105) The third of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down on October 4, 1992 and launched on September 27, 1993, Chi Kuang (繼光) was commissioned in service on March 7, 1995.
ROCS Pan Chao (FFG-1108) ROCS Pan Chao (çŹč¶…, FFG-1108) is the sixth of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in July, 1995 and launched in May, 1996, Pan Chao was commissioned in service in December, 1997.
ROCS Tian Dan (FFG-1110) ROCS Tian Dan (ç”°ĺ–®, FFG-1110) is the eighth and final ship of Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigate of the Republic of China Navy, which was based on Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design of the United States Navy. Tian Dan was laid down in December 2001, launched in October 2002, and commissioned in service on March 11, 2004.
ROCS Tzu I (FFG-1107) ROCS Tzu I (ĺĺ„€, FFG-1107) is the fifth of eight Taiwanese-built frigates based on the USN Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) design. Laid down in August 7, 1994 and launched in July, 1995, Tzu I was commissioned in service in January, 1997.
ROF Patricroft The Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Patricroft, was an Engineering factory and was classified as a Medium Machine Shop. It was located in Patricroft, near the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England; adjacent to both the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal.
ROF Pembrey A World War I explosive factory, which was to be later known as NEF Pembrey was built, by Nobels Explosives, with British Government approval, near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The factory was built on a site consisting of mainly sandhills and sand dunes to provide some protection against damage caused by an explosion.
ROF Ranskill The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Ranskill was a UK Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF. It was located adjacent to what is now known as the East Coast Main Line railway at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, just north of the town of Retford.
ROH World Tag Team Championship The ROH World Tag Team Championship is the tag team title contested for in the independent professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor. The current champions are the team of Matt Sydal and Christopher Daniels.
ROHC Robust Header Compression (ROHC) is a standardized method to compress the IP, UDP, RTP, and TCP headers of Internet packets. This compression scheme differs from other compression schemes such as IETF RFC 1144 and RFC 2508 by the fact that it performs well over links where the packet loss rate is high, such as wireless links.
ROiL ROiL is a performance art troupe started in Portland, Maine now also based in Ithaca, New York and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "ROiL" is not an acronym; it is a verb meaning "to incite change; to stir things up.
ROIR ROIR (pronounced "roar"), or Reach Out International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in the early 1980s by Neil Cooper. Most of ROIR's early catalog consists of punk rock and No Wave releases, but the label branched out into other genres including industrial music, gothic rock, and, especially, dub reggae.
ROM hacking ROM hacking is the process of modifying a video game ROM image to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, or other gameplay elements. This is usually done by technically-inclined video game fans to breathe new life into a cherished old game, as a creative outlet, or to make essentially new unofficial games using an old game as a foundation.
ROM image A ROM image, or simply ROM, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequently used in the context of emulation, whereby older games or computer firmware are copied to ROM files on modern computers and can, using a piece of software known as an emulator, be run on the newer computer.
ROM-Mark The ROM-Mark is a physical layer technology intended to prevent stamping of unauthorized disc titles by pirates. The ROM Mark is a unique identifier embedded in pre-recorded ROM media discs such as movies, music and games.
ROMA Representational Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis (ROMA) is a technique that was developed by Michael Wigler and Rob Lucito at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2003. Wigler and Lucito currently run laboratories at CSHL using ROMA to explore genomic copy number variation in cancer and other genetic diseases.
ROMBAC 1-11 The ROMBAC 1-11 was a Romanian-built version of the short-range passenger British civilian airliner BAC 1-11. It was built at the Romaero plant in Bucharest between 1982 and 1989 under licence from the British Aircraft Corporation.
ROMP The ROMP or Research (Office Products Division) Micro Processor chip, also known in some circles as 032, was first in silicon in 1981 and was originally designed to be used in office products. It was intended as a follow-on to a mid-1970's processor called the "OPD Mini Processor", which was used in text editing systems such as the IBM Office System/6 and DisplayWriter.
ROOT ROOT is an object-oriented software package developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to this field, but it is also commonly used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining.
RORSAT Radar-equipped Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite or RORSAT is the western name given to the Soviet Upravlenniye Sputnik-Aktivny (US-A) satellites. These satellites were launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using active radar.
ROSE Upgrade Pakistan Air Force bought 50 ex-Australian, Lebanese, Libyan and French Mirage IIIs . The project "ROSE" (Retrofit of Strike Element") was set up to reclaim as many airplanes as possible and to upgrade them with latest avionics.
ROSSEM ROSSEM was a Belgian libertine political party founded in 1991 by the maverick Flemish businessman and writer Jean-Pierre Van Rossem. The acronym 'ROSSEM' stood for 'Radicale Omvormers and Sociale Strijders voor een Eerlijker Maatschappij" which can loosely be translated as "radical reformists and social fighters for a fairer society".
ROT13 ROT13 ("rotate by 13 places", usually hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple Caesar cipher used for obscuring text by replacing each letter with the letter thirteen places down the alphabet. A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on up to M, which becomes Z, then the sequence reverses: N becomes A, O becomes B, and so on to Z, which becomes M.
ROVER ROVER, which stands for Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, is a system which allows ground forces, such as Forward Air Controllers (FAC), to see what an aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is seeing in real time by receiving images acquired by the aircraft's sensors on a laptop on the ground. There's no time delay and usage of ROVER greatly improves the FAC on the ground reconnaissance and target identification which are essential to close air support.
Rp-process The rp process (rapid proton capture process) consists of consecutive proton captures onto seed nuclei to produce heavier elements. It is a nucleosynthesis process and, along with the s process and the r process, is responsible for the generation of many of the heavy elements present in the universe.
Rpath (linking) rpath is a term in computer science which refers to a runtime search path hardcoded in an executable file or library, used during dynamic linking to find the libraries and the executable file or library requires. It is inserted in the executable or library at link-time.
Rprop Rprop, short for resilient backpropagation, is a learning heuristics for supervised learning in artificial neural networks. Similarly to the Manhattan update rule, Rprop takes into account only the sign of the partial derivative over all patterns (not the size).
RP-3 The RP-3 (for "Rocket Projectile 3"), was a British air to ground rocket used in the Second World War. The use of a 60 lb (27 kg) warhead gave it the alternatively name of the "60 lb rocket".
RP7 RP7 is a multi purpose lubricating and penetrating spray which displaces water and inhibits corrosion. It is manufactured by the Australian company Selleys and is marketed in Australia as a superior alternative to WD-40.
RPA (Rubin Postaer and Associates) RPA is the largest independent advertising] agency on the West Coast. Based in [[Santa Monica, California, the agency bills over $1 billion dollars annually via disciplines including traditional advertising, interactive, direct and event marketing.
RPG Gateway RPG Gateway, part of the RPG Nexxus site network, is a human-edited global niche directory, specializing in role playing games and related content. The purpose of RPG Gateway is to provide a single resource listing all RPG and RPG-related sites for gamers.
RPG Maker (series) is the name of the expansive series of programs for the development of computer role-playing games (RPGs) created by the Japanese group ASCII, part of the company Enterbrain. The Japanese name, TsukĹ«ru is a pun mixing the Japanese word tsukuru (作る), which means "make" or "create", with sukĹ«ru (ă‚ąă‚ŻăĽă«), the phonetic pronunciation of the English word "school".
RPG Maker 2003 RPG Maker 2003 is the third in the series of programs for the development of Role-Playing Games, developed by the Japanese group ASCII. It features a database of pre-made backgrounds, music, animations, weapons, characters, and more.
RPG Makers An RPG Maker is a software program intended to make it easy for non-programmers to create a computer role-playing game. The target audience for most of these products is artists and creative types who have the imaginative abilities to assemble the elements of a game (artwork, plotline, etc.
RPG-X RPG-X is a third party modification for Raven Softwares title Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force. It essentially removes all of the frag related functions of Elite Force for the purpose of turning the game into a computer role-playing game.
RPG.NET RPGnet is one of the oldest and largest role-playing game websites on the Internet. It was founded in 1996 by Emma and Sandy Antunes, Shawn Althouse (etrigan) and Brian David Phillips, as a way to unify a number of transient game sites.
RPGamer RPGamer is a media and news website dedicated to covering computer and video game RPGs. Its coverage includes North American game news, European game news, Asian game news, gaming industry news, game reviews, game previews, hands-on game impressions, gaming conventions, game merchandise, release dates, contests, and interviews.
RPGA The RPGA, or Role-Playing Games Association, is a marketing arm of Wizards of the Coast which organizes and sanctions role-playing games worldwide, principally under the d20 system. The group was founded in November 1980 by Frank Mentzer of TSR, Inc.
RPGClassics RPGClassics is a website that was launched in 1997 by six people to cover the Final Fantasy series, and has since then grown to cover over 100 games. It feature shrines, which are sections of the site that provide extensive information about a single RPG, including game data, walkthroughs, and tips.
RPGds RPGds (Role Playing Game Development Studio) is a cross-platform Role Playing Game development environment created and maintained by Akuma No Houkon. It has been written in the C++ programming language and utilizes OpenGL for engine rendering.
RPGFan RPGFan is a website devoted to electronic role-playing games, including console games and PC games, both domestic and imported. Its content includes previews, reviews, and news of recent and upcoming RPG releases.
RPGMP3 RPGMP3 is a role-playing game podcast website. The site records and podcasts audio sessions of several modern and classic RPG campaigns, most recently and notably an audio review of the Alderac Entertainment Group Dungeons & Dragons campaign, The World's Largest Dungeon.
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