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 the first...

of 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...

A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants...

popularity of D&D led to the birth of the tabletop role-playing game industry, which publishes games with many different themes, rules, and styles of play. The...

Japanese-made tabletop role-playing games first emerged during the 1980s. Instead of "tabletop," they are referred to in Japanese as tabletalk RPGs (テーブルトークRPG...

Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988...

parlour games combined with the rulesets of fantasy wargames in the 1970s to give rise to tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs). Multiple TTRPGs were produced...

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...

traditional tabletop role-playing games and strategy games in appearance, pacing, and rule structure. Likewise, early tabletop role-playing games are descended...

text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface. Online text-based role playing games date to 1978...

publishers, in contrast to games published by large corporations. Indie tabletop role-playing game designers participate in various game distribution networks...

Actual play (or live play): A genre of podcast or web show in which people play tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) for an audience. Actual play often...

relevant to many types of games, including video games, tabletop role-playing games, board games, and sports. The passage of time must be handled in...

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...

tactical tabletop wargame created by Steven V. Cole and produced by Task Force Games in 1979. Like Zocchi's Star Fleet Battle Manual, it also made use of a license...

Exploration in Darkest Africa, a role-playing game published in 2000 by New Breed; see Timeline of tabletop role-playing games Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth...

In some role-playing games (RPGs), alignment is a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters,...

alternative history science fiction tabletop role-playing game published in 2017 by Free League Publishing, the international arm of Swedish game and book publisher...

Psionics, in tabletop role-playing games, is a broad category of fantastic abilities originating from the mind, similar to the psychic abilities that...

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 a...

Conspiracy, and MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients. Traveller is a tabletop role-playing game. Characters journey between star systems, engaging in exploration...

referred to as "gamemastering" or simply "GM-ing." The role of a GM in a traditional tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) is to weave together the other participants'...

horror/fantasy comic book about role-playing games, and an interconnected tabletop role-playing game system. The comic book and role-playing game were developed simultaneously...

more specialized for role-playing games. Some of these virtual tabletops have worked with the license holders to allow for use of their game's assets within...

theories about tabletop role-playing games include the Threefold model and GNS theory, which developed in conversation with the indie role-playing game forum...

Eye (German: Das Schwarze Auge, lit. "The Black Eye") is a German tabletop role-playing game with a high fantasy theme created by Ulrich Kiesow and launched...

"Critical Role and Audience Impact on Tabletop Roleplay". Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games. Jefferson...

fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk...

Pendragon, is a Tabletop role-playing game (RPG) in which players take the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition of Arthurian legend...

an indie role-playing game in which players create a fictional historical timeline, then zoom in to role-play specific events on that timeline. It was...