Managing familiars as they level and gear up, not to mention the catalog of spells at your fingertips, makes for a game that can be enjoyed by a wide demographic.

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At the bottom of the pyramid the 300, 000 employees who check the tracks and the level crossings were all assigned winter gear such as appropriate shoes and gloves, accessories that they are often too poor to buy on their own.

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Here, you'd like something powerful, with agile maneuver, a compact and robust size half-way between the foot soldier and his Humvee or truck, bringing support of heavy firepower, a level of armor, robotics and gear into the alleys - something that will team in numbers to move and cover dismounted soldiers and each other, just as our foot soldiers do for each other everyday.

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You can also level up your character, customizing their loadout and gear as you gain experience.

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Your phantom is whatever soul level you were at when you died and they have whatever gear, weapons, and armor you had equipped when you died.

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We started with a level based system but found that players were being restricted from using gear, so we scrapped it for the tier system.

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Other gear takes the familiar tools of office life to the next level.

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Mark Boylan, who has a cystic hygroma and haemangioma which causes facial growths, added that as a "genuine Top Gear fan" he was "gutted presenters felt the need to stoop to such a low level".

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Some readers may think that I slipped a gear by starting out to discuss our fiscal mess our outsized budget deficits and the resulting level of debt outstanding and ended up discussing our external deficit and debt.

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