| rdfs:comment | - Background may refer to:
* Background (Tropico 1)
* Background (Tropico 2)
* Background (Tropico 3 and 4)
- Urban Rivals usually has a background on there website. It changes depending on what's happening in Clint City. Urban Rivals has also released backgrounds in an advent calendar.
- Background is an Occupation normally listed under Art Department. If the credits directly indicate it, then it might also be listed under Other Crew, Sound Department or Special Effects.
- The game uses a number of backgrounds for various purposes. While most of the backgrounds are created by Three Rings staff, a few have been created by players in contests.
- When you create an new character in Arcanum, the option is there for you to choose a background for them. An interesting background will give your character bonuses to their skills and stats, but always at a cost (for example, the Bully background will grant you a +1 to Strength but incur a -1 to Intelligence). What backgrounds are available to your character is determined by your race and gender. The default background for all characters is "No special background", granting neither pros nor cons. These are the backgrounds available:
- The background property is used in CSS and certain HTML elements. It is a shorthand property for setting the individual background property values in a single place in the style sheet. This property can be used to set the values for one or more of: <a href="/mediawiki/Background-color" title="Background-color">background-color</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-image" title="Background-image">background-image</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-repeat" title="Background-repeat">background-repeat</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-position" title="Background-position">background-position</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-size" title="Background-size">background-size</a>, and/or <a href="/mediawiki/Background-attachment" title="Background-attachment">background-attachment</a>.
- Hoi Chummers... You want to know what's going on in Shadowrun: Corporate SINs? That's a big question with a very long answer. But you don't have the time for long answers! You want to know NOW! Fine, here's the quickest explanation I can give:
- They were known by many names; Elves, Sidhe, Tuatha de Danaan, to name a few. They were tall, fair and magical, they ensorcelled, ensnared and enraptured humanity since time immemmorial, they were a symbol of all that was magical and mysterious, and they vanished. No one knows where they went. Perhaps they simply closed the gateways from the Otherworld and chose to visit us no more; perhaps they travelled even further, into the stars; perhaps they died. But there are enough stories of changlings, Elvan lovers, half-Elves and fey blood to suggest that they left a legacy behind them.
- As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore’s most recent original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, and French.
- Background of character can be selected on character creation in the Arelith Entry area, after selection of subrace and MoD options. Players may choose a background for new character or keep it without a background. Backgrounds have a small mechanical effect, allowing character's past to influence their skills, in a small way. Not all background feats are available to all characters. For example, characters' class and abilities can be limiting the possibilities for selection of backgrounds. Mithreas:
- A Background is an addition to users Sticker Modules. The only known way to obtain Backgrounds is to unlock them. Special Stickers may unlock Backgrounds, and several Backgrounds are available by Default. File:BIO Sticker background 2.jpg Some Sticker Modules already have a Background, like the Jungle Adventure Sticker Module or the Galactic Sticker Module. Users cannot choose or change the background on these Modules. Networkers also have their own Backgrounds.
- A Background is a special trait used in the Storyteller System used to represent elements of a character's history or backstory. They establish a character's social status, history, or special tools that don't fall under the sway of supernatural powers such as Disciplines, Gifts, magic, Arcanoi, etc. In the Storytelling System, the traits that were traditionally Backgrounds became Merits.
- The background is a roleplaying element, which provides potential hooks and interest beyond a simple cookie-cutter character. When first introduced in the player's handbook, it was solely a means of flavor, with a few generic questions. There are two sets of questions, first found in the Player's Handbook, and the other in the Rules Compendium, both of which are meant to make sure the character is integreated in the world. In Player's Handbook 2, the background may also be used to obtain one mechanical bonus: [PH2:178]
- Kahootz is an online and digital multimedia experience with an emphasis on empowering young kids (between the age of 7 and 15) to become their own storytellers. The program features an entirely 3D and interactive world which is shaped by students. The Australian Children's Television foundation developed the project (for primary and secondary school students) to increase visual and media literacy skills and to strengthen technical comprehension. The program claims to enhance: (see http://www.kahootz.com/kz/) (see http://www.kahootz.com/kz/)
- BG or Background is a setting in Powder Game and in Powder Game 2 In Powder Game there are 14 different backgrounds:
* non is no background. The only thing shown on the screen is the blocks, elements, and objects. There is no air or wind display, and no special effects.
* air changes the background color based on air pressure. Green is high pressure, blue is low pressure, and black is normal.
* line is similar to air, but uses brown lines to indicate wind direction.
* blur gives elements and objects a motion trail.
* shade gives elements and objects a coloured aura, which combined with grid 7 can be used to see Glass.
* aura for a special effect that shows the direction of wind and .
* light makes elements grouped together lighter. The brightness of the dots depen
- When word spread that there were breaks spotted in the Rad-Fog around the Dead Mist Valley most figured it wasn’t worth the risk. Scraps of Pre-Fall maps didn’t show much in the way of industry or cities in the valley, and the chances that anything worthwhile survived seemed too small. But for Pure Blood Katherine ‘Kitty’ Wendt it was an ideal opportunity. So she put together a team of Merican rustlers, outlaws, and gunman, started calling them ‘settlers’ and headed into the unknown intent on founding her own town, where she could not only increase her fortune, but also exert the kind of control she always thought was her due.
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| abstract | - Kahootz is an online and digital multimedia experience with an emphasis on empowering young kids (between the age of 7 and 15) to become their own storytellers. The program features an entirely 3D and interactive world which is shaped by students. The Australian Children's Television foundation developed the project (for primary and secondary school students) to increase visual and media literacy skills and to strengthen technical comprehension. The program claims to enhance:
* (i) creative skills
* (ii) visual literacy skills
* (iii) collaborative learning
* (iv) maths and science skills
* (v) science and technology skills (see http://www.kahootz.com/kz/) A study cited by the Australian Children's Television Foundation reveals that children tend to respond better to videos/material than to each other. The program has link to 'adult,' new and social media sotware like second life, machinima and youtube. By getting young children to engage with these sort of world-building and narrative activities earlier the program claims to be shaping a new generation of 'prosumers.'http://www.actf.com.au/about_us/pdfs/effects_of_multimedia_on_ed_0506.pdf The Australian Children's Television Foundation has just released a third version of the program. It features sound editing software (similar to pro-tools, garageband or adobe audition), media importing capabilities, new objects and worlds, personalisation of characters with photos and other game/narrative building software which is designed to increase the authorship that students have over the media. In addition to the multimedia world, Kahootz offers an online forum and exhibition space for discourse between students across the country and to publish work and films created in 'Kahootz.' (see http://www.kahootz.com/kz/) In terms of support for both students and teachers there is an extensive network of technical and teachning guides available on the Kahootz website: http://www.kahootz.com (see section: 'How did they do that? http://www.kahootz.com/kz/template/home%2CResources_tips.vm). An edition of the education newsletter published by the ACFT in 2007 explains that teaching guides not only dissect the techniques of multimedia building in Kahootz but also promotes skill development (ACTF, March 2007) The support guides on the Kahootz website also focus on this sense of media-building as community by demonstrating both to teachers and students how students in other classrooms are using the technology http://www.kahootz.com
- Background may refer to:
* Background (Tropico 1)
* Background (Tropico 2)
* Background (Tropico 3 and 4)
- A Background is an addition to users Sticker Modules. The only known way to obtain Backgrounds is to unlock them. Special Stickers may unlock Backgrounds, and several Backgrounds are available by Default. File:BIO Sticker background 2.jpg Some Sticker Modules already have a Background, like the Jungle Adventure Sticker Module or the Galactic Sticker Module. Users cannot choose or change the background on these Modules. Users can add a Background to their Sticker Modules by clicking the 'edit' in their Page Builder and select 'Backgrounds'. There users have all their Backgrounds they have obtained. They then click on the Image of your chosen Background and it is put automatically on their Sticker Module. Networkers also have their own Backgrounds. If a user puts a 3-slot Background on a 2 or 1-slot Sticker Module someone viewing their page can hold down the left click on the mouse and move the Background from left to right.
- Urban Rivals usually has a background on there website. It changes depending on what's happening in Clint City. Urban Rivals has also released backgrounds in an advent calendar.
- They were known by many names; Elves, Sidhe, Tuatha de Danaan, to name a few. They were tall, fair and magical, they ensorcelled, ensnared and enraptured humanity since time immemmorial, they were a symbol of all that was magical and mysterious, and they vanished. No one knows where they went. Perhaps they simply closed the gateways from the Otherworld and chose to visit us no more; perhaps they travelled even further, into the stars; perhaps they died. But there are enough stories of changlings, Elvan lovers, half-Elves and fey blood to suggest that they left a legacy behind them. The laws of science and nature say that any fey blood should become more dilute with each generation, but science knows nothing of the ways of magic, and magic is at the core of Elvan existance. And yet it is that, in these technological times, when science is peeling back the mystery and disproving the magic, the magical influence seems to only grow stronger, and there are those born with far more then their fair share of Elvan blood. Often lost and unhappy in these technological times, these new Elves have sought their own little pockets of magic, but it was not until two such, with a special gift for crossing the Mists of Time, find a way to the Otherworld. Following their discovery, the two travellers began to carefully seek out others like themselves. Others who would wish to cross to the other side, and begin life anew. These New Elves are the founders of New Elfhome. There are many great works on the mythos surrounding the mysterious creatures who appear in the mythology of many European cultures, and can be lumped loosely together under the term 'Elves'. I won't attempt to paraphrase them, but instead suggest a little light reading. Try Googling 'Elves', 'celtic', 'sidhe' or 'tuatha de danaan' for a start. Failing that, think along the lines of Tolkein's Elves.
- Background is an Occupation normally listed under Art Department. If the credits directly indicate it, then it might also be listed under Other Crew, Sound Department or Special Effects.
- Background of character can be selected on character creation in the Arelith Entry area, after selection of subrace and MoD options. Players may choose a background for new character or keep it without a background. Backgrounds have a small mechanical effect, allowing character's past to influence their skills, in a small way. Not all background feats are available to all characters. For example, characters' class and abilities can be limiting the possibilities for selection of backgrounds. All changes applied by background feats to abilities are hard-coded on character. They will be not considered "temporary" by game and therefore:
* abilities will be counted for feat prerequisites
* they will be not counted against limit of maximum 12 point temporary increase to ability Mithreas: "Stat bonuses are hard (coz there's a cap of +12 and base stats matter for feat reqs) Skill bonuses are soft (because otherwise you'll have problems with levelling up)." After selection of background are all changes applied to character and player is logged out and back in again.
- When word spread that there were breaks spotted in the Rad-Fog around the Dead Mist Valley most figured it wasn’t worth the risk. Scraps of Pre-Fall maps didn’t show much in the way of industry or cities in the valley, and the chances that anything worthwhile survived seemed too small. But for Pure Blood Katherine ‘Kitty’ Wendt it was an ideal opportunity. So she put together a team of Merican rustlers, outlaws, and gunman, started calling them ‘settlers’ and headed into the unknown intent on founding her own town, where she could not only increase her fortune, but also exert the kind of control she always thought was her due. After a few months of scouting, they chanced into a group of structures, still standing and in decent repair. The area was surprisingly rich in edible plants, game, and even better than expected scrap. Best of all, the springs that appeared and disappeared around the camp were untainted. These fine features, combined with the growing restlessness of her crew to be done with the trail, convinced Kitty that this was the site of her new town, Wendton, though most of the crew quietly refers to it as “Wet-town.” Not long after, the settlers learned why the buildings were in such comparatively good repair. A tribe of Natural Ones, the Wonteens, regularly use and maintain the buildings as part of their nomadic cycle. At first the Wonteens tried to demand the settlers clear out, explaining that this was their home, offering to help protect the settlers while they established another settlement elsewhere. Generations of isolation, however, had allowed the dialect of the Wonteens to drift, and Kitty used this to rather willfully “not understand” their requests, even when the tribe indicated that they would be willing to sell their houses and leave peacefully. Eventually, things came to blows. The tribe was more numerous than the settlers, but the settler’s technology, armor, and better fortified position gave them the edge. The Wonteens were forced to pull back, and resort to raids. This lasted until Kitty’s men managed to capture a large raiding party led by Chief Star Badge’s son, Wave Runner. The tribe stopped open hostilities when Kitty threatened to torture and kill the party in such a way that they would never return. The Chief believes that his people are being held captive inside the town, when in reality Kitty sold them to slave traders shortly after striking the deal, as she thought it would be easier than guarding them and it made a little extra profit. The Wontees now stay in the area year round, keeping an eye on the settler, looking for their people, and trying to make life uncomfortable without open hostility. With this extra threat, Kitty decided to start spreading the word for more settlers to come join her, figuring more guns the better.
- The game uses a number of backgrounds for various purposes. While most of the backgrounds are created by Three Rings staff, a few have been created by players in contests.
- As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore’s most recent original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, and French. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden. Since that time, Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi-volume series including The Dark Elf Trilogy, Paths of Darkness, The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, and The Cleric Quintet. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. He promptly changed his major from computerscience to journalism. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications from Fitchburg State College in 1981, then returned for the degree he always cherished, the Bachelor of Arts in English. He began writing seriously in 1982, penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic. Salvatore held many jobs during those first years as a writer, finally settling in (much to our delight) to write full time in 1990. The R.A. Salvatore Collection has been established at his alma mater, Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, containing the writer’s letters, manuscripts, and other professional papers. He is in good company, as The Salvatore Collection is situated alongside The Robert Cormier Library, which celebrates the writing career of the co-alum and esteemed author of young adult books. Salvatore is an active member of his community and is on the board of trustees at the local library in Leominster, Massachusetts. He has participated in several American Library Association regional conferences, giving talks on themes including “Adventure fantasy” and “Why young adults read fantasy.” Salvatore himself enjoys a broad range of literary writers including James Joyce, Mark Twain, Geoffrey Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante, and Sartre. He counts among his favorite genre literary influences Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fritz Leiber, and of course, J.R.R. Tolkien. Born in 1959, Salvatore is a native of Massachusetts and resides there with his wife Diane, and their three children, Bryan, Geno, and Caitlin. The family pets include three Japanese Chins, Oliver, Artemis and Ivan, and four cats including Guenhwyvar. When he isn't writing, Salvatore chases after his three Japanese Chins, takes long walks, hits the gym, and coaches/plays on a fun-league softball team that includes most of his family. His gaming group still meets on Sundays to play. This is from www.rasalvatore.com
- When you create an new character in Arcanum, the option is there for you to choose a background for them. An interesting background will give your character bonuses to their skills and stats, but always at a cost (for example, the Bully background will grant you a +1 to Strength but incur a -1 to Intelligence). What backgrounds are available to your character is determined by your race and gender. The default background for all characters is "No special background", granting neither pros nor cons. These are the backgrounds available:
- The background property is used in CSS and certain HTML elements. It is a shorthand property for setting the individual background property values in a single place in the style sheet. This property can be used to set the values for one or more of: <a href="/mediawiki/Background-color" title="Background-color">background-color</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-image" title="Background-image">background-image</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-repeat" title="Background-repeat">background-repeat</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-position" title="Background-position">background-position</a>, <a href="/mediawiki/Background-size" title="Background-size">background-size</a>, and/or <a href="/mediawiki/Background-attachment" title="Background-attachment">background-attachment</a>.
- The background is a roleplaying element, which provides potential hooks and interest beyond a simple cookie-cutter character. When first introduced in the player's handbook, it was solely a means of flavor, with a few generic questions. There are two sets of questions, first found in the Player's Handbook, and the other in the Rules Compendium, both of which are meant to make sure the character is integreated in the world. In Player's Handbook 2, the background may also be used to obtain one mechanical bonus: [PH2:178]
* Gain a +2 bonus to checks with a skill associated with the background.
* Add a skill associated with your background to your class skill list (before choosing trained skills)
* Choose one language connected to your background, and learn to speak, read, write that language fluently.
* In a campaign setting that offers regional benefits, you can obtain the associated regional benefit. This is normally the case for Forgotten Realms or Scales of War characters.
- BG or Background is a setting in Powder Game and in Powder Game 2 In Powder Game there are 14 different backgrounds:
* non is no background. The only thing shown on the screen is the blocks, elements, and objects. There is no air or wind display, and no special effects.
* air changes the background color based on air pressure. Green is high pressure, blue is low pressure, and black is normal.
* line is similar to air, but uses brown lines to indicate wind direction.
* blur gives elements and objects a motion trail.
* shade gives elements and objects a coloured aura, which combined with grid 7 can be used to see Glass.
* aura for a special effect that shows the direction of wind and .
* light makes elements grouped together lighter. The brightness of the dots depends on how many particles of that element are clumped together.
* toon for turning appearance of the elements into big dots and creating a white border around almost everything, which can be used to see glass.
* mesh makes a moving "mesh" showing wind. It changes colors depending on the air pressure and stretches and squeezes with wind.
* grey is merely a grayscale version of air, with the exception of creates and players, will make elements grayscale. Wind and Air will show up as grey waves of pressure.
* track leaves a trace of the element as it moves, meaning you can see the path the element has taken in moving, but these trails are easily erased by changes in pressure.
* dark makes the entire screen dark, except for light producing elements (thunder, fire, magma etc.) and players.
* TG makes the screen a thermal imaging map, which slows a computer down slightly. Temperatures, from highest to lowest, are represented by white, red, yellow, green, blue and purple.
* siluet makes the screen monochrome. Elements that are in motion leave a little blur like BG-light and are a little different colored. Elements that have no motion, objects and blocks are always black, but Grid will show up in standard grey and brown. In Powder Game 2, were adiccionated more 2 backgrounds:
* mosaic makes the screen mosaic style. Elements and objects are shown in mosaic pieces.
* color changes the background color according to the element selected by left and right click. When both click are on the same element, the background color is the same as the element and the element will appear black.
- Hoi Chummers... You want to know what's going on in Shadowrun: Corporate SINs? That's a big question with a very long answer. But you don't have the time for long answers! You want to know NOW! Fine, here's the quickest explanation I can give:
- A Background is a special trait used in the Storyteller System used to represent elements of a character's history or backstory. They establish a character's social status, history, or special tools that don't fall under the sway of supernatural powers such as Disciplines, Gifts, magic, Arcanoi, etc. Like other traits, characters can purchase Backgrounds with experience points in the course of a chronicle, though some are restricted, either available only at character creation or through in-character actions. Many Backgrounds are disallowed altogether for certain character types (such as certain Tribes of Garou), while Storytellers are advised to allow other only at their discretion. In the Storytelling System, the traits that were traditionally Backgrounds became Merits.
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