Live action role-playing game (18072 bytes)
1: ... called '''live action role-playing''' or '''live role-playing'''.
5: ...On-role" and "Off-role," or "In Game" and "Out of Game."
8: ...that dice-based systems interrupt the flow of the game, and use a variety of creative methods to replace...
10: ...using this method are often known as "Boffer" or "Live Combat" LARPs.
15: ...al fighting to the weaponcarrying minority of the game, while the other players may pursue other goals a...

Role-playing game (20525 bytes)
1: ...role-playing game|video and computer role-playing games]] for their digital counterparts.''
3: ...ome aspect of role-playing; however, role-playing games tend to focus on this aspect of [[behaviour]].
7: ... [[monster]] is lying in wait. In a role-playing game, the player may choose what to do about the broke...
9: ... to interact with (and adjudicates how these interactions proceed), but may also be responsible for advanc...
11: ...amemaster duties, or in the more radical cases no gamemaster at all.

Albedo (role-playing game) (1141 bytes)
1: '''Albedo''' is a [[role-playing game]] based on [[Steve Gallacci]]'s ''Erma Felina'', ...
9: ...nnounced a new edition of the ALBEDO role-playing game, subtitled [[Platinum Catalyst]].
14: [[Category:Role-playing games]]

Orpheus (role-playing game) (714 bytes)
2: ... of Darkness]]. Unlike the other Word of Darkness game lines, Orpheus had a specifically planned metaplo...
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Toon (role-playing game) (3352 bytes)
1: ... is subtitled ''[[Cartoon|The Cartoon Roleplaying Game]]''.
3: ...nd first published in [[1984]] by [[Steve Jackson Games]].
5: ...ventions of more standard, "serious" role-playing games.
7: ...t, or by having anvils fall on them). Unlike most games, however, when a character is reduced to zero hi...
9: ...ht enemies while staying alive. According to the game's rules, the two prime directives for Toon player...

Champions (role-playing game) (2758 bytes)
3: ...Bruce Harlick, and Ray Greer, published by [[Hero Games]], designed to simulate and function in a four-c...
5: Champions was the first role-playing game in which character generation was guided by the p...
7: ...erpower imaginable. The result is a role-playing game that runs very much like a comic book. Like most...
9: The system is also very conducive to role-playing than some other systems. Emphasis is placed on d...
11: ...ns'' was incorporated into a generic role-playing game system called [[Hero System]]. While these syste...

Maelstrom (role playing game) (256 bytes)
1: ...d in 1984 by [[Puffin Books]]. It is a historical game set in 16th century England.

Simulationist role-playing game (1090 bytes)
1: ...ationist role-playing game''' is a [[role-playing game]] where the rules try to simulate the way that th...
3: ...at (a rather common event in many of role-playing games) a simulationist approach might be to see if the...
7: [[GURPS]] is often classified as a simulationist role-playing system.
9: Simulationist games are one of the three types commonly identified b...
11: [[Category:Role-playing games]]

Midgard (role-playing game) (2985 bytes)
1: ...es down to game mechanics, if you have played the game please contribute.''
3: ...he [[German language]] and the first role-playing game that was created in [[Germany]]. The name comes f...
7: The game uses 'W%' [[dice]], i.e. a die with 100 sides, o...
9: ...els. The characters do have [[level (role-playing games)|level]]s (Ger. ''Grade''), but this only indica...
13: ... of [[1985]], the game was the first role-playing game to incorporate the distinction between hit points...

Adventure! (role-playing game) (2315 bytes)
1: ...role-playing games, see [[adventure (role-playing games)]].''
3: ...including also [[Trinity (Aeon)]] and [[Aberrant (game)|Aberrant]].
4: ... The Aeon line was discontinued shortly after the game's publication, despite a strong and vocal fanbase...
6: ...ins Award|Origins Award]] for ''Best Role-Playing Game of 2001''.
8: == Game Setting ==

Tactical role-playing game (2203 bytes)
1: ...role-playing]] games with [[turn-based strategy]] games.
5: ..., tactical RPGs are ''invariably'' [[turn-based]] games because of their complexity and the amount of th...
9: ...Gs is to hardcore, not casual, computer and video gamers. Tactical RPGs are quite popular in [[Japan]] b...
12: Examples of games in the genre include ''[[Growlanser]]'', ''[[Dis...
14: [[Category:Computer and video game genres]]

Paranoia (role-playing game) (6634 bytes)
1: ... tongue-in-cheek rather than dark and heavy. The game is set in Alpha Complex, a large futuristic domed...
3: ...are usually the player characters (although later game supplements offered other roles for player charac...
9: ...berately or accidentally); instead of leaving the game, the player simply portrays the next member of th...
10: ...ix-pack' is intentional, and is allegedly part of game design, where each player is given a six-pack of ...
12: ...abeled 'Orbital', which actually gets used in the game.

Computer role-playing game (15482 bytes)
1: ...per-and-pencil [[role-playing game]]s. Modern RPG games encompass a wide range of styles and types of en...
3: ... [[massively multiplayer online game]]s. However, games that are actually called just 'RPG', are usually...
8: ...HP), ''magic points'' (MP), and ''levels''. These games also tend to borrow the narrative structure of m...
10: ...ter in order to advance, and if possible, win the game.
12: ...ider this [[powergaming]] as opposed to actually "role-playing."

EverQuest Role-Playing Game (1397 bytes)
1: ...the ''[[EverQuest]]'' [[fantasy]] [[MMORPG]]. The game line is published by [[White Wolf, Inc.|White Wol...
3: ...in who controls the game (in this case a player [[game master]]) and in the size and scope of the advent...
6: * EverQuest Role-Playing Game: Player's Handbook
7: * EverQuest Role-Playing Game: Monsters of Norrath
8: * EverQuest Role-Playing Game: Game Master's Guide

Stormbringer (role-playing game) (2533 bytes)
1: ...made by Chaosium, [[Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)|Call of Cthulhu]].
3: The game has evolved through several editions over the yea...
8: ...dition ([[1987]]), book, published jointly with [[Games Workshop]], cover art by [[Peter Jones (artist)|...
15: ...haosium published a [[d20 System]] version of the game in ([[2001]]) as '''''Dragon Lords of Melniboné''...
25: [[Category:Role-playing games]]

Nephilim (role-playing game) (2640 bytes)
1: ...tal entities reincarnating into human beings. The game was originally published in [[1992]] by the Frenc...
18: Nephilim is a game based on the idea that since ancient times there ...
27: [[Category:Role-playing games]]

Aberrant (role-playing game) (3832 bytes)
1: ...d appearing one day in 1998 out of the blue. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters...
8: ...e from this, it shares with many other White Wolf games a tendency to embrace "shades of gray" morality ...
11: [[Adventure! (role-playing game)|Adventure!]]. Trinity details the future histor...
20: [[Category:Role-playing_games]]

Sorcerer (role-playing game) (3693 bytes)
1: ...dependently published, [[fantasy]] [[role-playing game]] written and published by Ron Edwards.
2: It is a tightly focused game revolving around the highly relevant and thematic...
4: ...hroughout play to commit their characters towards actions that support or negate Humanity, often risking i...
6: ...ble for its success as an independently published game. It was first self-published on-line as a free t...
9: ...characters and the players into bystanders to the action at hand.

Freeform role-playing game (1346 bytes)
1: ...eir character, and once the game is underway, the game is played by interacting with the other players i...
3: ...ariation on [[scissors, paper, stone]]. Often the game runs in an entirely unexpected direction, and the...
5: ...ary]], [[historical]] or [[futuristic]]. Freeform games are a popular feature of some gaming [[conventi...
10: [[Category:Role-playing games]][[Category:theatre]]

Chill (role-playing game) (1772 bytes)
1: '''''Chill''''' is a [[role-playing game]] that captures the feel of late 20th-century [[h...
3: ...-playing game|RPGs]] and instead focus on [[board games]].
5: The game was most recently purchased by [[OtherWorld Creat...
7: The overall flavour of the game is reflected in movies such as ''[[John Carpenter...
12: ...o translated to Swedish and published by [[Target Games]] as ''"Chock"''.

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