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 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freeform role-playing games are a subgenre of LARP with minimal rules and a greater focus on character development.
However, any variety of role-playing game (with the exception of computer games, in which a player's only interaction is with the computer) can be played as a freeform role-playing game.
Computer-assisted role-playing games blend elements of tabletop gaming with computer gaming.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2803 words)

  
 Tabletop role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tabletop role-playing games are played by two or more players, face to face, who use interactive storytelling to determine what their respective characters are doing.
Most tabletop role-playing games require the use of dice for action resolution, and require the players to be able to read and write on the character sheets that record information pertinent to their characters.
Tabletop role-playing games receive their name from the necessity of playing on a flat surface, such as a table, like many other tabletop games.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game   (430 words)

  
 Playing
Albedo (role-playing game) Albedo is a 1993 as a softcover.
Orpheus (role-playing game) Orpheus is a ghosts of the recently deceased.
Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) The Call of Cthulhu is a 1930s.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/playing.html   (430 words)

  
 Hol (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HoL (sometimes written as "HōL") is a Role Playing Game created by the Dirt Merchant Games and produced by Black Dog Game Factory (a subsidiary of White Wolf for the production of adult oriented RPGs).
Hol is a science fiction game set in the very distant future where mankind has colonized the entire galaxy.
The Game Master in HoL, is known as the Holmeister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_Occupied_Landfill   (1526 words)

  
 Aberrant (game)
Aberrant uses a modified version of the d10 system that all White Wolf games use.
This game definitely is NOT a four color supers game, each faction has areas of grey that challenge the morals of the characters.
Unlike other games by White Wolf there are no splats that limit one's abilities in Aberrant, though there are four major factions.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Aberrant.html   (595 words)

  
 Toon (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toon is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of cartoon characters.
Although Toon is a genuine role-playing game requiring the participation of players and a game master (called the "Animator" here), it is designed with a tongue-in-cheek style that deliberately parodies many of the conventions of more standard, "serious" role-playing games.
Although Toon is careful to avoid any copyright violations, it is clear that the game was inspired by the classic Warner Brothers cartoons of the 1940s through the '60s, and characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toon_%28role-playing_game%29   (509 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first role-playing games as such were played in the late 1960s in and around the University of Minnesota's wargaming society, especially in the groups moderated by Dave Wesley and Dave Arneson.
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing.
These games are called CRPGs which stands for "computer role-playing games" or "console role-playing games" depending on whether the game is played on a personal computer or on a video game console.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (3533 words)

  
 Stormbringer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stormbringer makes an unofficial appearance in the computer role-playing game Nethack, with much the same attributes that it possesses in Moorcock's works (tendency to attack by itself, including friends; sucks the force of the living beings that it hits, etc).
Stormbringer is also the name of a role-playing game (also published as Elric!
A number of Stormbringer-like vampiric swords appear in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, most notably in the adventure White Plume Mountain, whose cover art features a pale-skinned elf wielding a black blade called Blackrazor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stormbringer   (3533 words)

  
 Simulationist role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A simulationist role-playing game is a role-playing game where the rules try to simulate the way that things work in the real world, or at least the way that they could be thought of working.
GURPS is often classified as a simulationist role-playing system.
The drawback is that the process can take a long time to perform and the process is not always how the real-world works anyway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simulationist_RPG   (143 words)

  
 Midgard (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the edition of 1985, the game was the first role-playing game to incorporate the distinction between exhaustion points and hit points.
It was the first such game ever published in the German language and the first role-playing game that was created in Germany.
Midgard is a fantasy role-playing game of German origin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midgard_(role-playing_game)   (512 words)

  
 HeroQuest (board game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The game was based loosely around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games; like tabletop role-playing games, the game itself was actually a game system, allowing the gamemaster (in HeroQuest parliance, "Zargon") to create dungeons of his or her own design using the provided game board, tiles, furnishings and monsters.
Because of the ease of play of the game (a full dungeon can be explored and beaten in as little as an hour, compared to five or longer for a full-blown role-playing game) and its vivid detail work, it is fondly remembered in gamer circles (much like Talisman) and copies of it are jealously hoarded.
HeroQuest, sometimes also written as Hero Quest, is a board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with Games Workshop and, set in the Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HeroQuest_(board_game)   (552 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freeform role-playing games are a subgenre of LARP with minimal rules and a greater focus on character development.
The original form of role-playing game was the fantasy wargame, inspired by sword and sorcery fiction and utilizing miniature figurines and scaled terrain grids to illustrate action in a way similar to that of tactical wargames.
However, any variety of role-playing game (with the exception of computer games, in which a player's only interaction is with the computer) can be played as a freeform role-playing game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2754 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computer games incorporating gameplay mechanics from role-playing games are referred to as computer role-playing games, or CRPGs.
Due to the popularity of CRPGs, the terms "role-playing game" and "RPG" have both to some degree been co-opted by the computer gaming industry; as a result, traditional non-digital pastimes of this sort are increasingly being referred to as pen and paper role-playing games (PnP RPG or PPRPG) or tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG).
Computer-assisted role-playing games blend elements of tabletop gaming with computer gaming.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2816 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first role-playing games as such were played in the late 1960s in and around the University of Minnesota 's wargaming society, especially in the groups moderated by Dave Wesley and Dave Arneson.
These games are called CRPGs which stands for " computer role-playing games " or "console role-playing games" depending on whether the game is played on a personal computer or on a video game console.
A role-playing game ( RPG) is a type of game where players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2816 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Reference Library
The "third edition" of the Dungeons & Dragons game brought mainstream appeal to the growing "third generation" of role-playing games: ones that placed more of an emphasis on simplistic (yet realistic) game play and characterization over myriad volumes of rule books.
For a while, some pessimists forecast the "end" of role-playing games as a serious hobby because of the onslaught of trading card games, though eventually the dust settled and role-playing continued to thrive.
A role-playing game ( RPG) is a type of game where players assume the role of a fictional character, via role-playing.
www.campusprogram.com /reference/en/wikipedia/r/ro/role_playing_game.html   (2816 words)

  
 Albedo (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albedo is a role-playing game based on Steve Gallacci's Erma Felina, EDF and Birthright storylines, from the funny animal comic anthologies Albedo and Critters.
In 2004, Sanguine Productions published ALBEDO: PLATINUM CATALYST, the current edition of the role-playing game.
The game was published as a single softcover with source material, rules of engagement, and sample characters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albedo_RPG   (235 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The original form of role-playing game was the fantasy wargame, inspired by sword and sorcery fiction and utilizing miniature figurines and scaled terrain grids to illustrate action in a way similar to that of tactical wargames.
Freeform role-playing games are a subgenre of LARP with minimal rules and a greater focus on character development.
However, any variety of role-playing game (with the exception of computer games, in which a player's only interaction is with the computer) can be played as a freeform role-playing game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2791 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest form of role-playing game is a tabletop role-playing game, so named because participants sometimes use pewter figurines and terrain grids to illustrate the action.
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of fictional characters.
Some players consider Collectible card games to be a kind of role-playing game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roll-playing   (1573 words)

  
 A Tabletop Role-Playing Game Glossary
Most modern games provide a generic means for resolving an action by specifying a game stat and a difficulty number, and then rolling dice.
This is a character in the game controlled by the GM (as opposed to one of the players).
This may mean a game which does not use dice, but it may mean a game which does not use randomizers at all (i.e.
www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/systemdesign/glossary.html   (779 words)

  
 Elric of Melniboné - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elric and Stormbringer have been detailed in a role-playing game by the publisher Chaosium and their licensees.
Stormbringer (along with creatures and artifacts from many other sources) appears as an artifact in the roguelike computer game Nethack.
Elric is the tool of his evil, sentient sword Stormbringer, which is itself a parody of the normal sword-and-sorcery hero's weapon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elric   (779 words)

  
 Role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The original form of role-playing game was the fantasy wargame, inspired by sword and sorcery fiction and utilizing miniature figurines and scaled terrain grids to illustrate action in a way similar to that of tactical wargames.
Freeform role-playing games are a subgenre of LARP with minimal rules and a greater focus on character development.
However, any variety of role-playing game (with the exception of computer games, in which a player's only interaction is with the computer) can be played as a freeform role-playing game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Role-playing_game   (2812 words)

  
 Learn more about Role-playing game in the online encyclopedia.
The "third edition" of the Dungeons & Dragons game brought mainstream appeal to the growing "third generation" of role-playing games: ones that placed more of an emphasis on simplistic (yet realistic) game play and characterization over myriad volumes of rule books.
For a while, some pessimists forecast the "end" of role-playing games as a serious hobby because of the onslaught of trading card games, though eventually the dust settled and role-playing continued to thrive.
Timeship by Yaquinto - A time-travel roleplaying game.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ro/role_playing_game.html   (2812 words)

  
 FAQ for REC.GAMES.FRP.SUPER-HEROES, the super-hero role playing game UseNET newsgroup
Role Playing Games (RPGs) are typically group games where the participants take on the roles of imaginary characters in a specific setting created by the person running the game, known as the game master.
Games using licensed characters, such as Spider-Man or Batman, do not qualify as the user can only take the role of the licensed character and is usually forced along a specific path; these games are not role-playing, they are game-playing.
Gaming is the process of playing the role-playing game, the "hobby aspect" if you will.
www.joshdm.com /super   (2812 words)

  
 Orpheus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orpheus is a role playing game from White Wolf Game Studio that takes place in the World of Darkness.
Orpheus is the translation into English of the title of the movie Orphée directed by Jean Cocteau in 1949.
Orpheus is a Carnival Krewe in Mandeville, Louisiana, which first paraded in 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orpheus_(disambiguation)   (2812 words)

  
 In Nomine (role-playing game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One can play a "dark" game as freedom fighters based in Hell fighting against angelic oppression just as easily as a "bright" game where angels seek to bring out all that is good in the human spirit.
There is no canon as to which side must be the "good guys," although in practice most games tend to default to the "bright" setting, which assumes that Heaven is in fact seeking to further the overall cause of good, and Hell is seeking to undermine it.
Players typically assume the role of angels and demons in a setting that draws heavily on the traditional Christian mythos.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/In_Nomine_(role-playing_game)   (1537 words)

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