An adventure is a playable scenario in a tabletop role-playing game. These can be constructed by gamemasters for their players, and are also released...
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massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Role-playing games also include single-player role-playing video games in which players control...
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Adventure! is a role-playing game designed and published by Tori Bergquist in 1985. Adventure! is a universal system. Adventure! was designed and published...
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brand of action role-playing game; these new Japanese games combined the role-playing genre with arcade-style action and action-adventure elements. Shaun...
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immersed in some well-defined world. Many role-playing video games have origins in tabletop role-playing games and use much of the same terminology, settings...
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to distinguish this format of RPG from role-playing video games or live action role-playing games. Online play of TTRPGs through videoconferencing has...
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that combines core elements of role-playing video games with those of tactical (turn-based or real-time) strategy video games. The formats of tactical RPGs...
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notable tabletop role-playing games. It does not include computer role-playing games, MMORPGs, play-by-mail/email games, or any other video games with RPG elements...
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rules to be used and facilitate play. The first LARPs were run in the late 1970s, inspired by tabletop role-playing games and genre fiction. The activity...
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The history of role-playing games began when disparate traditions of historical reenactment, improvisational theatre, and parlour games combined with the...
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a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It...
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his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan called this science fiction role-playing game "the standard by which all others...
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The following is a timeline of tabletop role-playing games. For computer role-playing games see here. The publication year listed here is the year of...
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history and distinctive traits of role-playing video games (RPGs) in East Asia have come from Japan, many video games have also arisen in China, developed...
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Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games Ars Magica Ironclaw Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books...
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Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) is a 1984 tabletop role-playing game based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit under license from...
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A party is a group of characters adventuring together in a role-playing game. In tabletop role-playing, a party is composed of a group of player characters...
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A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character. That piece of data is usually...
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Chill is an investigative and modern horror role-playing game originally published by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984 that captures the feel of 20th-century horror...
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Pendragon, or King Arthur Pendragon, is a Tabletop role-playing game (RPG) in which players take the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition...
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High Adventure Role Playing (HARP) is a fantasy role-playing game, designed by Tim Dugger & Heike A. Kubasch, and published by Iron Crown Enterprises...
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Speculative fiction portal Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate a superhero comic book world. It was originally...
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horror tabletop role-playing game with Old School Revival style rules published by indie role-playing game publisher Tuesday Knight Games in 2018. Mothership...
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Middle-earth role-playing games. J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe has been the setting for several role-playing games. This list covers...
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Remix RPG Adventure is a role-playing adventure game developed by Love-de-Lic and first published in 1997 by ASCII Entertainment for the PlayStation in...
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A generic or universal role-playing game system is a role-playing game system designed to be independent of campaign setting and genre. Its rules should...
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steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game (RPG) designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games in 1994. The game is named...
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Wizardry Adventure is a 1996 adventure and role-playing video game developed and published by Sir-Tech. It is a spin-off of the Wizardry series of games. Ports...
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easy-to-learn role-playing game, with well-planned and elaborate game worlds, and yet almost unlimited possibilities for creating new worlds that adventure-making...
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video-games that involve action, team-building, and points management. Adventure games lack the numeric rules or relationships seen in role-playing games (RPGs)...
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