List of role-playing games
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This is a list of notable role-playing games. It does not include computer role-playing games, MMORPGs, or any other video games with RPG elements.
Most of these games are tabletop role-playing games; other types of games are noted as such where appropriate.
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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13th Age | Pelgrane Press | d20 | 2013 | Fantasy | By Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo |
2300 AD | Game Designers' Workshop | 1989 - | Future of the Twilight 2000 universe | Originally called Traveller 2300AD | |
3D&T | Editora Talismã (formerly Trama Editorial) | A Brazilian generic system, turned to anime-style campaigns | |||
7th Sea | Alderac Entertainment Group / John Wick Presents | 1999, 2016 | Pirates / Swashbuckling | Designed by John Wick (game designer) | |
77 Worlds | Fireside Creations | Ward Card System | Post apocalyptic Earth | Designed by Stephen A Lee & James M. Ward | |
9th Generation |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Aberrant | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 1999 | Super-hero characters in the near future | Part of the Trinity series |
d20 | |||||
Academia TITÁN | Oscar Iglesias | 2021 | Hich School Mecha Panic | QSR in the author's site | |
Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier | Kenzer and Company | 2007 | A Western role-playing game. | ||
Active Exploits | Precis Intermedia Gaming | 2002 | |||
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons | TSR, Inc. | (See also Dungeons & Dragons) | |||
Advanced Fighting Fantasy | Cubicle 7 | ||||
Adventure! | 1985 | ||||
Adventure! | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 2001 | A pulp adventure | Part of the Trinity series |
Adventurers' Guild | Adventurers' Guild | 1987 | Line of "generic fantasy" supplements | The Adventurers' Guild Bestiary, Adventurers' Guild Bounty Hunters' Handbook, Adventurers' Guild Sage's Tome, The Adventurers' Guild Tome | |
Adventures in Fantasy | |||||
The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game | TSR, Inc. | 1984 | |||
Adventures in Middle-earth | Cubicle 7 | d20 | 2016 | fantasy | Based upon The One Ring RPG |
After The Bomb | Palladium Books | 1986, 2001 | |||
Aftermath! | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1981 | |||
Age of the Tempest | |||||
Age of Ruin | 1990 | ||||
Agone (French) | Multisim Editions | 1999 | Edited in French by and translated in English by | ||
Albedo | Thoughts & Images, Chessex | 1988, 1993 | Based on the furry comic book series, Erma Felna by Steve Gallacci | ||
Aliens Adventure Game | Leading Edge Games | 1990 | Science Fiction | ||
All Flesh Must Be Eaten | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 1999, 2003 | Zombie survival horror game | |
All-Star Wrestling | 1991 | ||||
Alma Mater | Oracle Games | 1982 | Comic high school | ||
Alshard (Japanese) | Far East Amusement Research / Enterbrain | 2002, 2005 | Fantasy with mecha like Final Fantasy[citation needed] | ||
Alshard Gaia (Japanese) | Alshard system | 2006 | A contemporary fantasy | ||
Alternity | TSR, Inc. | 1998 | SciFi | ||
Amazing Engine | TSR, Inc. | 1993 | |||
Amber Diceless Roleplaying | Phage Press | Diceless | 1991 | Based on the works of Roger Zelazny | |
Anima: Beyond Fantasy | Edge Entertainment | 2005, 2010 | Spanish RPG, a collaboration of Eastern and Western developers RPG with anime-style artworks | ||
Angel | Eden Studios, Inc. | Cinematic Unisystem | 2003 | Urban fantasy | A spin-off of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game |
Apocalypse World | Lumpley Games | PbtA | 2010 | A post-apocalyptic RPG of politics and survival | Created by D. Vincent Baker. First RPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) system |
Arcana Unearthed | Malhavoc Press | D20 OGL | 2003 | Fantasy | Developed by Monte Cook |
Archaeron | Archaeron Games | 1980 | |||
Arduin | Grimoire Games, Emperors Choice Games | 1977-1980, 1992 | The first cross-genre RPG[citation needed] | Designed by David A. Hargrave | |
Aria | |||||
Arianrhod RPG (Japanese) | 2004 | Japanese MMORPG-like | |||
Armageddon: 2089 | |||||
Armageddon: The End Times | Mongoose Publishing | D20 OGL | 2003 | Mek-based warfare | |
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Roleplaying Game | R. Talsorian Games | Fuzion | 1997 | SciFi game based on the Armored Trooper Votoms anime | |
Army of Darkness Roleplaying Game | Eden Studios, Inc. | Cinematic Unisystem | 2005 | Zombie horror | |
Ars Magica | Lion Rampant (editions 1 & 2) | Fantasy | |||
White Wolf Publishing (edition 3) | |||||
Atlas Games (editions 4 & 5) | |||||
Artesia: Adventures in the Known World | Based on the Comic/Graphic Novels by Mark Smylie | ||||
Ashen Stars | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2011 | Gritty investigative Space Opera | |
Atlantis | |||||
Attack of the Humans | |||||
The Authority Role-Playing Game | |||||
Ave Molech | Morbidgames Publishing | modified d20 modern with 3.5 edition races | Fantasy setting with Steampunk technology |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Babylon 5 | Mongoose Publishing | d20 (2nd ed.) | 2003, 2006 (2nd ed.) | Based on the Babylon 5 TV franchise | |
Bardos y Baladas | Epic Bard adventures | English version available too in author's site | |||
BASH! | |||||
Barony | |||||
Basic Fantasy RPG | |||||
Basic Role-Playing | Chaosium | Role-playing game system | |||
Batman Role-Playing Game | |||||
BattleDragons | Spartacus Publishing | Play as dragons in a fantasy world | |||
Battlelords of the 23rd Century | SSDC, Inc. | ||||
Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game | Margaret Weis Productions | 2007 | Based on the SciFi TV series | ||
Behind Enemy Lines | |||||
Beyond the Supernatural | Palladium | Modern Day Horrors | |||
Bifrost | 1982 | ||||
Big Bang Comics RPG | |||||
Big Eyes, Small Mouth | Guardians of Order | Anime-based RPG | |||
Black Crusade | |||||
Blackwatch | |||||
Blade of Arcana | |||||
Blades in the Dark | Evil Hat Productions | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2017 | Urban fantasy | |
Blood Dawn | SSDC, Inc. | ||||
Blood of Heroes | |||||
Bloodlust (French) | Edited by Asmodée Editions | ||||
Blue Planet | Biohazard Games | 2nd Edition by Fantasy Flight
proposed 3rd Edition by Biohazard Games | |||
Blue Rose | Green Ronin | ||||
Boot Hill | TSR, Inc. | 1975 | Wild West adventure | ||
Brave New World | |||||
Breaking the Ice | |||||
Bubblegum Crisis | Scifi, Cyberpunk | ||||
Buccaneer | |||||
Buck Rogers XXVC | TSR, Inc. | 1990-1992 | |||
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 2002 | Based on the TV show of the same name | |
Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game | |||||
Bunnies and Burrows | Steve Jackson Games | Out of print | |||
Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic | Tri Tac Games | ||||
Burn Bryte | Roll20 | 2020 | science fantasy | Design tailored to be played on a virtual tabletop platform | |
Burning Empires | |||||
The Burning Wheel | High fantasy | ||||
Bushido | Fantasy Games Unlimited | Samurai RPG set in Feudal Japan | |||
By the Gods | Ragnarok Enterprises | 1986 |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | Game Designer's Workshop | ||||
Cadwallon | Rackham | ||||
Call of Cthulhu | Chaosium | Based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft | |||
Capes | |||||
Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul | |||||
Cartoon Action Hour | Spectrum Games |
‘9Car Wars’’ | |||
Cassiopean Empire | |||||
Castles & Crusades | Troll Lord Games | OGL System | Fantasy RPG | ||
Castle Falkenstein | Steampunk fantasy | ||||
The Castle Perilous | |||||
Cazadores | Oscar Iglesias | 2017 | Monster hunters | ||
Challengers | |||||
The Challenges Game System | |||||
Champions | Hero Games | ||||
Changeling: The Dreaming | White Wolf (1st and 2nd editions)
Onyx Path Publishing ( 20th anniversary edition) |
Storytelling System | 1995
1997 2017 |
(Original World of Darkness) | |
Changeling: The Lost | (New World of Darkness) | ||||
Children of the Sun | Misguided Games | ||||
Chill | |||||
Chivalry & Sorcery | |||||
Chronicles of Ramlar | White Silver | ||||
Les Chroniques d'Erdor | French RPG of oneiric fantasy using a 54 card deck | Edited by Boite a Polpette | |||
City of Heroes | Eden Studios, Inc. | The tabletop companion to the City of Heroes MMORPG | |||
City of Mist | Son of Oak Game Studio | A noir (detective) RPG set in a modern-day city where once-ordinary people hold the power ancient myths and legends. | |||
Commando | |||||
Conan Role-Playing Game | TSR | "ZeFRS" (Zeb's Fantasy Roleplaying System) | 1985 | Hyborian Age | The official TSR Conan role-playing game, finally published in 1985 |
Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of | Modiphius Entertainment | 2d20 system | 2017 | Hyborian Age | Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of was developed by a team of game designers, writers and artists, all led by Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment. The rights to publish this derivative work were licensed from Conan Properties International. |
GURPS Conan | Steve Jackson Games | GURPS | 1989 | Hyborian Age | A year before the release of the core rulebook, in 1988, Steve Jackson Games published a solo adventure titled GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River |
Conan: The Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2004-2010 | Hyborian Age | One of the role-playing games in the Mongoose Publishing OGL System series |
The Confederate Rangers | |||||
Conspiracy X | Eden Studios, Inc. | extraterrestrials, UFOs, and government coverups | |||
C°ntinuum | Time travel adventure | ||||
Core Command | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Corporation the Roleplaying Game | Core Games Publishing | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||
CORPS | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||
Corum | An addendum to the Stormbringer RPG (aka Elric!) | ||||
Creeks and Crawdads | |||||
Crime Fighter | |||||
Crimefighters | TSR | 1981 | |||
Crystalicum (Polish) | |||||
CthulhuTech | Wildfire | H.P. Lovecraft's horror with Mecha and Anime influences | |||
Cursed Empire | Chris Loizou | Dark fantasy | Formerly known as Crimson Empire | ||
Cutthroat: The Shadow Wars | |||||
Cybergeneration | R. Talsorian Games | Alternate setting for Cyberpunk 2020 | |||
Cyberpunk 2013 | R. Talsorian Games | Out-of-print and superseded by Cyberpunk 2020 | |||
Cyberpunk 2020 | R. Talsorian Games | ||||
Cyberspace | Iron Crown Enterprises | ||||
Cyborg Commando | New Infinities, Inc. |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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D6 Adventure | West End Games | ||||
D6 Fantasy | West End Games | ||||
D6 Space | West End Games | ||||
D6 System | West End Games | In-house system, based on the Star Wars RPG | |||
d20 Future | Wizards of the Coast[1] | d20 System | Generic futuristic | ||
d20 Modern | Wizards of the Coast[2] | d20 System | Generic modern | ||
d20 Past | Wizards of the Coast[3] | d20 System | Generic historical | ||
d20 System | Wizards of the Coast[4] | Based on Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules | |||
Dallas | |||||
Danger International | Hero Games | espionage adventure | |||
Dangerous Journeys by E. Gary Gygax | Game Designers' Workshop | ||||
Daredevils | Pulp era mystery | ||||
Dark Ages | White Wolf Publishing | Series of RPGs, including Vampire: The Dark Ages, Dark Ages: Werewolf, Dark Ages: Mage, Dark Ages: Fae, and Dark Ages: Inquisitor | |||
Dark Champions | |||||
Dark Conspiracy | Game Designers' Workshop | ||||
Dark Dungeons | |||||
The Dark Eye | Most popular German RPG,[5] known in Germany as Das Schwarze Auge | ||||
Dark Heresy, the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay Game | Originally by Black Industries, now developed by Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
Dark Streets | |||||
Darwin's World | RPGObjects | Post-apocalyptic RPG | |||
Dawning Star | |||||
DC Adventures | Green Ronin | ||||
DC Heroes | Mayfair Games | ||||
DC Universe Roleplaying Game | West End Games | ||||
De Profundis | |||||
Dead Inside | A small-press RPG where the characters attempt to rebuild their lost souls through selfless and noble actions (and get superhuman powers along the way) | ||||
Dead Reign | Palladium Books | ||||
Deadlands: Hell on Earth | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | ||||
Deadlands: Lost Colony | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | ||||
Deadlands: The Weird West | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | GURPS version by SJGames | |||
Deathwatch | |||||
Deliria: Faerie Tales for the New Millennium by Phil Brucato | Laughing Pan Productions | ||||
Delta Force: America Strikes Back! | |||||
Degenesis: Rebirth | SIXMOREVODKA | Katharsys | Primal Punk | ||
Demon City Shinjuku Role-Playing Game | |||||
Demon Hunters Role Playing Game | |||||
Demon: The Fallen | White Wolf | (Original World of Darkness) | |||
Demon's Lair | Lasalion Games | ||||
Deryni Adventure Game | |||||
Diana: Warrior Princess | By Marcus Rowland | ||||
Diaspora | VSCA Publishing | FATE | 2009 | Hard science fiction | |
Dice & Glory | |||||
Dinky Dungeons | 1985 | ||||
Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex | |||||
Diomin | OtherWorld Creations | ||||
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple | |||||
The Doctor Who Role Playing Game | FASA | Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | |||
Doctor Who - Adventures In Time And Space: the roleplaying game | Cubicle 7 Entertainment | Based on the 2005–present run of the BBC television series | |||
Doctor Who - Time Lord (role-playing game) | Virgin Publishing | Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | |||
Dogs in the Vineyard | Lumpley Games | Loosely based on the Mormon State of Deseret in pre-statehood Utah | |||
Domination | |||||
Dominion Rules | An open-source fantasy twelve-sided-die-based RPG encouraging innovative combat system | ||||
The Dominion Tank Police Role-Playing Game | Guardians of Order | Tri-Stat System | 1999 | ||
Domicile | Subcellar Games | 2015 | A Narrative Roleplaying Game of Supernatural Mystery | ||
Donjon | Clinton R. Nixon, Donjon Anvilwerks | ||||
Don't Let Them Take You Alive | First United Church of Cthulhu[6] | d100 | 2017 | action horror in the Modern Cthulhu Mythos | based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft |
Don't Look Back | Mind Ventures | 1994 | |||
Don't Rest Your Head | Evil Hat Productions | ||||
Double Cross | Superhero | (Japanese) | |||
Drací doupe | Loosely based on Dungeons & Dragons | The most popular Czech fantasy RPG system[citation needed] | |||
Dragon Age | Green Ronin | ||||
Dragon Ball Z - Anime Adventure Game | https://web.archive.org/web/20021120023158/http://www.talsorian.com/ | ||||
Dragonlance: Fifth Age | |||||
Dragon Lords of Melniboné | |||||
DragonMech | A cross between fantasy and mecha | ||||
DragonQuest | A now out-of-print RPG, suppressed by TSR | ||||
DragonRaid | A Christian RPG | ||||
Dragonroar | |||||
Dragonscales | Fireside Creations | Ward Card System | Fantasy | Designed by Stephen A Lee and James M. Ward | |
Dragonstar | Where science fiction and fantasy blend | ||||
Dragon Storm | |||||
Dragon Warriors | An easy-to-use RPG system published in paperback format | ||||
Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons) | Swedish fantasy RPG | ||||
Dread RPG | |||||
Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium | Rafael Chandler | ||||
Dream Craft | |||||
Dream Park: The Roleplaying Game | |||||
The Dresden files | A variant of the FATE game | Urban fantasy | Based on the books by Jim Butcher | ||
Droids | |||||
Duendez | Oscar Iglesias | 2015 | Fairy tales | Non violent zero-prep collaborative RPG | |
Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium | Last Unicorn | 2000 | Supposedly limited to 3000 copies | ||
Dungeons & Dragons | Created by Dave Arneson and E. Gary Gygax, further editions by TSR, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast | ||||
Dungeon World | Sage Kobold Productions | Powered by the Apocalypse | Dungeon fantasy | ||
Durance | |||||
Dust Devils | |||||
Dying Earth | Based on the stories of Jack Vance | ||||
Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields) | Set in 17th century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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EABA | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | A generic RPG system | aka End All Be All | ||
Earth 2020 | Self-published | 1983 | role-playing game | by Stephen Kyffin | |
Earthdawn | FASA | 1993-2015 | Fantasy post-apocalypse; ambiguously a predecessor in the timeline of the Shadowrun setting. | ||
Eclipse Phase | Posthuman Studios | d100 | 2009 | Sci-fi | |
Eden: the Deceit | |||||
El-Hazard Role-Playing Game | |||||
Eldritch Role-Playing System | |||||
Element Masters | |||||
Elemental Axes | Crosstime Games | ||||
Elfquest | Chaosium | Based on the works of Richard Pini and Wendy Pini | |||
Elfs | |||||
By George F. Rice[7] | |||||
Elric! | Chaosium | Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné stories | |||
Empire of the Petal Throne | TSR, Inc | Set in M. A. R. Barker's world of Tékumel | |||
En Garde! | Game Designers' Workshop and SFC Press | Duelists from 17th century France | |||
The End | Scapegoat Games | 1995 | Banned from Gen Con by TSR | ||
Enforcers | 1987 | ||||
Engel | |||||
Impact Engine | A superhero RPG | ||||
Eon | Swedish fantasy game | ||||
Epic Role Playing | Dark Matter Studios | ||||
Erdor | |||||
The Esoterrorists | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2006 | Horror | |
Espionage! | Hero Games | Based on Second Edition Champions | |||
Eternal Soldier | 1985 | Free Universal Role-Playing system | |||
Etherscope | Goodman Games | ||||
The Everlasting | Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc | ||||
EverQuest Role-Playing Game | White Wolf Publishing | Pencil & paper version of the popular MMORPG | |||
Everway | |||||
Plug-and-Play System with multiple complexity tiers for all skill levels. | |||||
Open game system | |||||
Ex Machina | Scifi, Cyberpunk | ||||
Exalted | White Wolf Publishing | Epic fantasy; potential pre-history of World of Darkness | |||
Exodus: Post Apocalyptic RPG | |||||
Ediciones Sombra | Spanish | ||||
Expendables | |||||
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Ediciones Sombra | A storytelling RPG based on the stories about Baron Munchausen | By James Wallis |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Fading Suns | Holistic Design | ||||
Firefly Games | An interactive storytelling game of fairy folklore suitable for younger players | ||||
RPC54 | 2015 | Hard science fiction | |||
Fanhunter | Spanish game based on the series of comics of the same name | ||||
Fantasy Craft | Crafty Games | Mastercraft | |||
Fantasy Earth | Zody Games | 1994 | Includes Fantasy Earth: Basic Rules, Fantasy Earth: The Book of Magic, and The Essential Fantasy Earth | ||
D20 | |||||
Fantasy Hero | |||||
Fantasy Imperium | An interactive storytelling game of historical fantasy | ||||
The Fantasy Trip | Steve Jackson, published by Metagaming Concepts | The precursor to GURPS | |||
A Player's Guidebook for | |||||
Fantasy Wargaming | A project by dissatisfied British Dungeons & Dragons players, it was considered incomplete and insufficient yet featured noteworthy elements and qualities that are still yet unseen in most role-playing games[citation needed] | ||||
Fantasy West Adventures | Oscar Iglesias | Custom PbtA | 2015 | Adventures in a fantasy wild west setting | |
Farscape Roleplaying Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | ||||
Twisted Confessions (Alexander Cherry) |
Roulette | 2004+ | Generic Dissipation | The first role-playing game designed around the roulette wheel. | |
F.A.T.A.L. | Byron Hall | Custom | 2001-2004 | Fantasy | Adult-oriented role-playing. "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery" |
Fate Core | Evil Hat | Fate System | Generic | Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment based on the FUDGE engine. No longer an acronym.[8] There are other games that use the Fate engine. | |
Fate of the Norns | Runic Game System (RGS) - Previous editions used a 2D10 based system | Viking Historical/Fantasy | |||
Fates Worse than Death | Vajra Enterprises | cyberpunk-influenced game set in Manhattan in 2080 | |||
Fear Itself | |||||
Feng Shui | Hong Kong martial arts movies | ||||
Fiasco | Bully Pulpit Games | Custom | 2009 | Various | |
Field Guide to Encounters | |||||
Fifth Cycle | |||||
A role-playing game designed for people who haven't played before | |||||
Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-Playing Game | Based on the Fighting Fantasy book series. | ||||
Fireborn | Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
Firefly | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex+ | 2014-2015 | Firefly | A separate game from Serenity due to licensing issues despite the same company producing both at different times. |
Firelight | 2017 | World of 'Firelight' | A card-based role-playing game due for launch on Kickstarter in July 2017 and wide release in 2018. Attempts to simplify traditional RPG mechanics in order to make the genre more accessible. | ||
Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo | |||||
Flashing Blades | |||||
Flor de Lyss | Tarot cards | 2020 | Dark Fantasy | Adventure with its own setting and rules | |
Forbidden Kingdoms | |||||
Forgotten Futures | Marcus L Rowland | ||||
Freedom Fighters | |||||
Fragged Empire | Design Ministries | 2015 | Post-Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi. | ||
Fringeworthy | Tri Tac Games | ||||
FTL:2448 | Tri Tac Games | ||||
FUDGE | Steffan O'Sullivan | FUDGE | "Free, Universal, Do-it-Yourself Gaming Engine" | ||
Furry Pirates | |||||
Near Future | A Danish RPG | ||||
Future Worlds | |||||
Fuzion | R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games | Modified from R. Talsorian's Interlock System and Hero Games' Hero System | A simple and customizable generic open gaming system |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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A Game of Thrones | A Game of Thrones | ||||
Gamma World | TSR, Inc. | Modified D&D | Different versions are based on different versions of D&D | ||
Gangbusters | TSR, Inc. | 1930s urban crime adventure | |||
Gangster! | |||||
Gatecrasher | A tongue-in-cheek science-fiction & fantasy setting | ||||
Based on the novel Gatecrash | |||||
G-Core | Dilly Green Bean Games | G-Core | Superhero Rules | Modernized version of classic Marvel FASERIP with well over 200 releases. Versions: G-Core, G-Core Deluxe, G-Core PRIME, and G-Core X (Current). Launched in 2010 and still going. | |
Gear Antique | |||||
Gear Krieg | |||||
Geist: The Sin-Eaters | White Wolf | Storytelling | New World of Darkness | ||
Genesis - The Role Playing Game | Inkeptum Ultra Visio | 1986, 1990, 2021 | Future, 2193 ce | Small-press former makers of the science fiction RPG Genesis. The First version was produced in 1986 and sold only 200 copies mostly around Calgary. The Second version was mass-produced in 1990 and sold all 2000 copies. The Third unreleased version has sat on shelves / in boxes / in a garage for the past 13 years. Version 3 has been remastered, and is now being hosted at theengine.com | |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | |||||
Ghostbusters | West End Games | Ghostbusters film series | First RPG to use a dice pool system. | ||
Ghosts of Albion | Eden Studios | Based on the Ghosts of Albion animations and novels by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden. | |||
Ghoulash: The Last Game on Earth | |||||
Godlike | Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press | ||||
Golden Heroes | Games Workshop | ||||
Based on the Gossip Girl TV series | |||||
d20 | A Christian RPG | ||||
Grey Ranks | Jason Morningstar | ||||
Grimm | |||||
GUMSHOE System | |||||
Gunslingers and Gamblers | The American Wild West of 1876 | ||||
Wild West theme set in an alternate historical timeline | Guns of Santa Torina | ||||
GURPS | Steve Jackson Games | GURPS | Generic | Gurps is an acronym for"Generic Universal Role Playing System" |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Habitica | (formerly HabitRPG) | ||||
HackMaster | Kenzer & Company | based on the comic Knights of the Dinner Table | |||
by Tim Peare | |||||
Halcyon | Neuwerld Studios | ||||
Happy Birthday, Robot! | |||||
HârnMaster/Hârn | Columbia Games | ||||
the "Hugely Adaptable (action/anime) Role-Playing Engine", Free and quite adaptable | |||||
Haven: City of Violence | |||||
Hawkmoon | an addendum to the Stormbringer RPG (aka Elric!) | ||||
Post-human cyberpunk. | |||||
Heaven & Earth | |||||
Heavy Gear | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Hercules & Xena Roleplaying Game | |||||
modern-day horror | |||||
Heresiarcas | Oscar Iglesias | 2016 | Rebels against the gods | GM-less, dice-less, zero-prep RPG | |
Hero System | Hero Games | ||||
HeroQuest/Hero Wars | |||||
Heroes | |||||
Heroes of Olympus | |||||
Heroes Unlimited | Palladium Books | ||||
Hidden Kingdom | |||||
High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game | |||||
High Adventure Role Playing (HARP) | Iron Crown Enterprises | ||||
High Colonies | |||||
High Fantasy | |||||
Hillfolk | |||||
Hol | |||||
Hollow Earth Expedition | Exile Games Studio | 1930's style pulp adventure | |||
Hollyworld | |||||
Hong Kong Action Theater | |||||
Houses of the Blooded | |||||
How We Came To Live Here | |||||
Hunter Planet | |||||
Hunter: The Reckoning | (original World of Darkness) | ||||
Hunters Dark | (2015 built by endless void studios) | ||||
Hunter: The Vigil | New World of Darkness | ||||
Kale Co. | |||||
Hyborian War | Reality Simulations Inc. | 1984 | Hyborian Age | Based on the world of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Icar by | a free science-fiction game | ||||
Immortal: The Invisible War | Ran Valerhon | ||||
Ironhedge | |||||
In Dark Alleys | Vajra Enterprises | ||||
In Nomine | based on In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | ||||
In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | Croc (Siroz) | satiric gang/spy wars involving angels and demons in the contemporary world | (French) | ||
Incursion | Tri Tac Games | ||||
Infernum | |||||
Infinity | |||||
Inner City | |||||
Inou Tsukai | |||||
Haphazard Projects | uses the in-house DPS System | ||||
Even V. Røssland / NEVR | |||||
InSpectres | Memento Mori Theatricks | ||||
Ironclaw | |||||
Iron Kingdoms | Privateer Press | ||||
Ironhedge | |||||
Iron Heroes | d20 system | based on making D&D playable without magic | |||
It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show | |||||
It Was a Mutual Decision |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Jadeclaw | |||||
- Are You a Jail Lord or a Jail Fish? | |||||
James Bond 007: Role-Playing in Her Majesty's Secret Service | Victory Games, a branch of Avalon Hill | 1983 | |||
Jeremiah: The Roleplaying Game | based on the TV series | ||||
John Carter, Warlord of Mars | |||||
Jorune (or Skyrealms of Jorune) | |||||
Jovian Chronicles | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game | Games Workshop | 1985-1989 | |||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2002 | ||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | Traveller | 2009 | ||
Justice, Inc. | Hero Games[9] | 1930s Pulp fiction oriented adventure | |||
Justifiers | Play as human/animal hybrids (Betas) that are owned by the Corporation; locate new resources, eliminate threats, and buy your freedom. |
K[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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KABAL | |||||
(set in Mark E. Rogers fictional world for his Zorachus series of books) | |||||
kill puppies for satan (sic) | Lumpley Games | ||||
Killer | Steve Jackson Games | (live action) | |||
Kindred of the East | White Wolf | Storytelling System | Old World of Darkness | (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade) | |
Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom | White Wolf | Storytelling System | Old World of Darkness | (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade) | |
Galileo Games | |||||
Knights and Magick | |||||
Knights of the Round Table | |||||
Kobolds Ate My Baby! | |||||
Krysztaly Czasu | (Polish, ) | ||||
Kult | Swedish game based on Gnostic concepts with some Kabbalistic undertones |
L[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labyrinth Lord | |||||
Lace and Steel | published originally by TAGG and re-released by Pharos Press | an Australian RPG set in a world of civilised Centaurs and Harpies with a musketeers/swashbuckling feel | |||
Land of the Rising Sun | Fantasy Games Unlimited | Chivalry & Sorcery | Samurai and Ninjas | ||
Lands of Adventure | |||||
The Laundry | |||||
Legacy | |||||
Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | Asian-themed RPG | |||
French | |||||
set in Ancient Egypt | French RPG | ||||
fantasy RPG | |||||
Wintertree | fantasy, based around plastic dice device | ||||
Legends of Anglerre | |||||
Legionnaire | FASA | standalone role-playing game for the Renegade Legion universe | |||
Lejendary Adventure | Hekaforge Productions | created by Gary Gygax | |||
Leverage | Cortex+ System | based on the Leverage TV series | game written by Cam Banks and | ||
Instant Fuzion | an overtly generic space opera RPG | by | |||
Little Fears - The Role-playing Game of Childhood Terror | Key 20 Publishing | ||||
a post UN invasion RPG written by an Army officer and Iraq veteran | |||||
Living Steel | Leading Edge Games | futuristic game on the world of Rhand | |||
Lone Wolf | Mongoose Publishing | d20 | a series of gamebooks and Lone Wolf: The Roleplaying Game; also a second game by Mongoose, the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book | ||
Lord of the Rings Adventure Game | Iron Crown Enterprises | 1991-1999 | based on the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game | Decipher, Inc. | 2002-2006 | based on the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
Lords of Creation | Avalon Hill |
M[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mach: The First Colony | |||||
Macho Women with Guns | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||
Macross II: The Role-Playing Game | Palladium | ||||
Malls and Morons | indie publication | "Silly modern role-playing in the malls of America" | by Orion Cooper | ||
Maelstrom | Puffin Books | ||||
Mage: The Ascension | White Wolf Publishing (1st, 2nd and revised editions)
Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) |
Storytelling System | 1993
1995 2000 2015 |
set in the original World of Darkness | |
Mage: The Awakening | White Wolf Publishing | set in the new World of Darkness 2.0 | |||
Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade | |||||
Hungarian | |||||
modern-day alien conspiracy game | |||||
Malefices | French | ||||
Man, Myth & Magic | Yaquinto | RPG drawing on 4000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. Earth legends | |||
Manhunter | |||||
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex+ system | |||
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game | TSR | ||||
Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game | TSR, Inc. | ||||
Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game | Marvel Publishing Group | ||||
Masterbook | |||||
The Masters of the Universe Role Playing Game | |||||
a game based on Anime Mecha science fiction | |||||
Mechamorphosis | Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
Mechanical Dream | |||||
The Mechanoid Invasion | Palladium | ||||
MechWarrior | |||||
- les Messagers Galactiques | parallel universe | French | |||
MEGA Role-Playing System | |||||
Megaverse | Palladium Books | ||||
members of tiny kingdom's court explore dungeons | Japanese | ||||
Mekton | R. Talsorian Games | based on Anime Mecha science fiction | |||
Melanda: Land of Mystery | |||||
Men In Black: The Roleplaying Game | |||||
MERC | Fantasy Games Unlimited | A Modern Role Playing Game of Counter Insurgency | |||
Merc 2000 | Twilight 2000 updated for the post-Cold War '90s | ||||
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes | Flying Buffalo | ||||
The Metabarons Roleplaying Game | West End Games | ||||
Metamorphosis Alpha | 1976 | ||||
Michtim: Fluffy Adventures | 2012 | ||||
Microscope | Lame Mage Productions | 2011 | Cooperative world-building | ||
Middle Earth Role Play | Iron Crown Enterprises | based on the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | |||
Midgard | the oldest German fantasy RPG[citation needed] | ||||
Midnight | A fantasy world were the bad guys have won | ||||
Midnight at the Well of Souls Role-Playing System | |||||
Crusades and knights Templar | French | ||||
Millennium's End | Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment | ||||
Mind Games RPG | |||||
M.I.S.S.I.O.N. | by Deiron e Yangsmoth | ||||
Mistborn Adventure Game | |||||
Company | A Player's Guidebook | ||||
Mojo | Polymancer Studios, Inc. | ||||
Monastyr | Polish, Monastery | ||||
a very tongue in cheek basic fantasy role play system | by James Herbert Brennan | ||||
Monsterhearts | Powered by the Apocalypse system | a game about the messy lives of teenage monsters by Joe Mcdaldno | |||
Monsters! Monsters! | |||||
Monsters and Other Childish Things | |||||
Mordheim | Games Workshop | ||||
Morpheus | |||||
The Morrow Project | Timeline Ltd | Post apocalypse USA 150 years after WW III. | |||
Morton's List | |||||
The Mountain Witch | |||||
Mouse Guard | a version of the Burning Wheel engine | by Luke Crane | |||
Multiverser | Valdron, Inc. | by and | |||
Mummy: The Resurrection | original World of Darkness | ||||
Murphy's World | Peregrine Creative Services | ||||
Mutant | Target Games | ||||
Mutant Chronicles | Modiphius | ||||
Mutant City Blues | Pelgrane Press | Robin Laws GUMSHOE System | superhero detectives | ||
Mutant Future | |||||
Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare | by Järnringen Förlag AB | ||||
Mutants & Masterminds | Green Ronin Publishing | ||||
Mutazoids | |||||
My Life with Master | Half Meme Press | ||||
by Varg Vikernes | |||||
Myrskyn aika | by Mike Pohjola | ||||
_The Role Playing Game | |||||
Mythworld |
N[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nastrand | Oscar Iglesias | Custom FitD | 2018 | Earth after Ragnarök | |
The | previously released in 1996, new edition in 2011 | adventure between 13 alternate Earths while avoiding insanity | |||
Neighborhood | |||||
Bards and Sages | |||||
Krypteia Estúdio Criativo | a setting of Greek Mythology | in Portuguese | |||
Nephilim | Chaosium | modern occult | |||
Neuroshima | Polish | ||||
Nexus: The Infinite City | |||||
Nicotine Girls | by Paul Czege | ||||
Nightbane | |||||
Nightlife | Stellar Games | ||||
Night of the Ninja | |||||
Night's Black Agents | |||||
Ætheric Dreams | |||||
Night Wizard! | wizards in contemporary | Japanese | |||
Ninja Burger | Steve Jackson Games | ||||
Ninjas and Superspies | Palladium Books | martial arts and espionage adventure | |||
Nobilis | by R. Sean Borgstrom | ||||
by | |||||
Archon Gaming, Inc. | |||||
a Dada/ergodic role-playing game | by and | ||||
Noctum | |||||
Northern Crown | |||||
FATE | 2013 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||
Novus | |||||
Numenera |
O[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | SciFi, Post-apocalypse, Horror | ||||
Odysseus | |||||
The Official Superhero Adventure Game | |||||
Old Dragon | Redbox Editora | the first old school RPG in Brazil | |||
Omnigon | |||||
The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild | |||||
Only War | |||||
Ops and Tactics | |||||
Ork! The Roleplaying Game | |||||
Orkworld | |||||
Orpheus | White Wolf Publishing | (original World of Darkness) | 2003 | Contemporary, Horror | Wraith: The Oblivion spinoff. Stand-alone setting, divorced from the generic World of Darkness, with a finished metaplot, published across six books. |
OSRIC | |||||
Other Suns | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
Outime | |||||
Over the Edge' | Atlas Games | ||||
P[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game | Palladium Books | ||||
Pandemonium! | MIB Productions | roleplaying in the world of tabloid news | |||
Pantheon | |||||
a series of illustrated roleplaying games with simple rules and a complex universe. Any gaming session played by anyone at any time is added to the overall storyline and considered canon. | |||||
Paranoia | originally by West End Games, later by Mongoose Publishing | a satire of dystopian futures | |||
Pathfinder | Paizo Publishing | 2009 | fantasy role-playing game | ||
Pax Draconis | Technicraft Design | a detailed rules heavy space opera with a percentile system | |||
Passion Play | |||||
Fading Suns | live action role-playing game | ||||
Pendragon (or King Arthur Pendragon) | Arthurian legend | ||||
A Penny for My Thoughts | |||||
Phantasia | |||||
Phantasy Conclave | |||||
Phase VII | |||||
Phoenix Command | Leading Edge Games | ||||
Pirates and Plunder | |||||
Polaris (1997) | |||||
Polaris | 2005 | ||||
modern-day Action movie game | |||||
Cumberland Games and Diversions | |||||
Powers and Perils | Avalon Hill | ||||
Praedor | based on the eponymous comics by Petri Hiltunen | ||||
The Price of Freedom | West End Games | America loses the Cold War and is occupied, but resistance is in their blood | |||
The Primal Order | |||||
Prime Directive | Task Force Games | ||||
Primetime Adventures | |||||
Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game | Chaosium | ||||
Privateers and Gentlemen | Fantasy Games Unlimited | naval adventure in the Napoleonic era | |||
Project A-ko: The Roleplaying Game | |||||
Promethean: The Created | White Wolf Publishing | new World of Darkness | |||
Psiworld | Fantasy Games Unlimited | SF adventures with a focus on psi abilities | |||
High Adventure Gaming cinematic style | |||||
Puppetland |
Q[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
QAGS | |||||
Qin | |||||
Quest of the Ancients | |||||
Quill: Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player | Trollish Delver Games | 2016 | A solo RPG, about writing letters. | Translated in 2016 in French by the editorial house 500NDG and in 2018 in Portuguese by a fan. |
R[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
by | |||||
T. Julian Bell & Raex games publishing | |||||
Rapture: The Second Coming | by William Spencer-Hale, Quintessential Mercy | ||||
The Realm of Yolmi | |||||
Recon | Palladium Books | Vietnam War adventure | |||
Red Dragon | Japanese | ||||
based on BBC comedy Red Dwarf | |||||
Reich Star | Creative Encounters | 1991 | fight Nazis in space | by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson | |
Reign | 2007 | by Greg Stolze | |||
Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros | by (French, Rêve de Dragon) | ||||
The Riddle of Steel | |||||
Rifts | Palladium Games | crossover system | |||
Rifts Chaos Earth | Palladium Games | ||||
Ringworld | Chaosium | ||||
Risus | |||||
Robot Warriors | |||||
Robotech | Palladium Games | based on the Robotech anime television series | |||
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Role-Playing Game | Palladium Games | ||||
Rogue Trader | FFG[10] | ||||
RMSS (Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing) | Iron Crown Enterprises | fully expandable and customizable rules system | |||
Paradigm Concepts | Post apocalyptic super hero zombies | ||||
Interactivities Ink | generic customizable live action rules system, with expansions for horror and fantasy | ||||
Rune | |||||
"Magic and religion clash in a ruined world" | by | ||||
RuneQuest[11] | Chaosium, versions also by Avalon Hill and Mongoose Publishing | ||||
RuneSlayers | |||||
Kotodama Heavy Industries | 2015 | "Natural fantasy for stories of travel, exploration, and adventure." | by |
S[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
fantasy | Swedish | ||||
SAGA System | |||||
Sanctum Polis - Rest Eternal Memory | indie anthropomorphic | ||||
Sandman: Map of Halaal | |||||
Satasupe | (Japanese) | ||||
Savage Worlds | |||||
Company | A Player's Guidebook | ||||
Scion: Hero | White Wolf Publishing | Modern day children of the gods | |||
(The role-playing game of lawyers in animal city) | Nick Smith and Jake Richmond | ||||
Second Dawn | |||||
Sengoku | Historical fantasy set in feudal Japan | ||||
notorious for its blatant encouragement of munchkinism | |||||
El Séquito | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2015 | Spanish Golden Age scifi | ||
Margaret Weis Productions | 2005-2009 | Serenity film | (The Firefly (television series) is getting its own RPG also from MWP due to licensing). | ||
Seventh Sea | |||||
The Shab-al-Hiri Roach | |||||
Alderac Entertainment Group | a setting for Spycraft | ||||
Shadow Lords | about epic Heroes, Immortals, Titans, Angels and Demons. | ||||
Horror, Scifi, Fantasy | |||||
Shadow of the Demon Lord | Schwalb Entertainment | 2015 | Fantasy, Dark fantasy, Horror | ||
The Shadow of Yesterday | |||||
Shadowrun | cyberpunk fantasy | ||||
Shatterzone | |||||
Shock: Social Science Fiction | |||||
Silver Age Sentinels | Guardians of Order | ||||
Simian Conquest | |||||
a simple and customizable generic open gaming system similar to Fuzion and the | |||||
Dashing Inventor Games | |||||
Sine Requie | horror | Italian role-playing game | |||
Skulduggery | |||||
Skull and Crossbones: Roleplay on the Spanish Main | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
Skyrealms of Jorune | SkyRealms Publishing, later Chessex | ||||
SLA Industries | Nightfall Games[12] | ||||
Sláine: The Roleplaying Game of Celtic Heroes | Mongoose Publishing | ||||
S/lay w/Me | |||||
The Slayers d20 | d20 System | ||||
Smallville | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Classic | based on the Smallville television series | ||
Randall C Ellis | |||||
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying | |||||
Sorcerer | Ron Edwards | ||||
Sovereign Stone | |||||
Space 1889 | GDW | Victorian Era Sci-Fi (steampunk) | |||
Space Dragon | Redbox Editora | pulp sci fi | |||
German crossover between military science fiction, space opera and horror | |||||
Space Infantry | |||||
Space Opera | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
Spacemaster | SF adaptation of Rolemaster | ||||
a tongue-in-cheek anime game | |||||
Space Quest | |||||
Spaceship Zero | Green Ronin Publishing | ||||
SpaceTime | |||||
The Spawn of Fashan | |||||
Sphinx | Sphinx is a historical/fantasy system set in ancient Egypt. The rules cover character professions (over 50), individual and mass combat, magic, reincarnation, dreaming, insanity, and dealing with the gods. Sphinx was published by in 1984 as a 100-page book.[13] | ||||
Spione: Story Now in Cold War Berlin | |||||
Spirit of the Century | Evil Hat Productions | FATE system | a pulp game | ||
Splicers | |||||
Splittermond | Uhrwerk-Verlag | Lorakis | German Fantasy RPG | ||
Spycraft | Alderac Entertainment Group | espionage adventure | |||
Day Dreamer Interactive | |||||
intelligent archosaurs in another star system | |||||
Stalking the Night Fantastic | |||||
Standard RPG System | |||||
Star Ace | |||||
Starblazer Adventures | |||||
StarCraft Adventures | TSR, Inc. | ||||
Star*Drive | TSR, Inc. | ||||
Starfaring | Flying Buffalo | ||||
Starfinder Roleplaying Game | Paizo Publishing | d20 System | |||
Starfleet Voyages | |||||
Star Frontiers | TSR | ||||
Stargate SG-1 | AEG | Spycraft/d20 System | 2003-2004 | ||
Star Hero | Fantasy Hero | SF adaptation of Hero System | |||
Star Legend | (Japanese) | ||||
Star Patrol | |||||
Star Riders | Ianus Games | parody of space opera | |||
Star Rovers | |||||
Starship Troopers (RPG) | Mongoose Publishing | ||||
Starships & Spacemen | |||||
Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier | Heritage | 1978 | |||
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Role Playing Game | Last Unicorn | 1999-2000 | |||
Star Trek Role Playing Game | Last Unicorn | 1999 | |||
Star Trek Roleplaying Game | Decipher | 2002-2005 | |||
Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game | Last Unicorn | 1998-1999 | |||
Star Trek: The Role Playing Game | FASA | 1983-1988 | |||
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game | West End Games | D6 System | 1987-1999 | ||
Star Wars Roleplaying Game | Fantasy Flight | 2012- | |||
Star Wars Roleplaying Game | Wizards of the Coast | D20 System | 2000-2010 | ||
Star Wreck Roleplaying Game | Mike Pohjola | parody game based on the Star Wreck movie franchise | |||
Steampunk, Neo-Victorian | |||||
Steve Perrin's Quest Rules | |||||
modern-day generic system | |||||
Stormbringer | Chaosium | based on Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné stories | |||
Storytelling System | |||||
Pirate/West Indies | |||||
The Strange | |||||
Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game | |||||
Over-the-top science fiction | |||||
Strontium Dog | Mongoose Publishing | 2009 | |||
multi-genre game system | |||||
modern-day super hero system | |||||
Super Powers Unlimited, LLC | |||||
Super Squadron | Super-Hero game | Australian | |||
Supergame | |||||
Superhero 2044 | |||||
Supernatural | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Classic | 2009-2010 | based on The CW's Supernatural television series. | |
Supervillains | |||||
Superworld | Chaosium | ||||
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies | |||||
Swordbearer | Heritage Games and Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
Swords & Wizardry | Mythmere Games | A free 'clone' of the original version of Dungeons & Dragons. | |||
Sword World RPG | (Japanese) | ||||
Synnibarr (aka The World Of Synnibarr) | Craig McCracken | Notorious for a nonsensical, poorly explained game-world and huge power-levels granted to beginning player characters. | |||
Systems Failure | Palladium Books |
T[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tagmar | fantasy game | Brazilian | |||
Tales from the Floating Vagabond | Avalon Hill | ||||
Talislanta | Bard Games | ||||
Taste My Steel! | |||||
Dream Machine Productions | 2011, 2019 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | By Jeremy Keller | ||
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness | Palladium Books | based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books | |||
Teenagers from Outer Space | anime based RPG | ||||
Tékumel: Empire of the Petal Throne | |||||
a free "universal" system distributed under a Creative Commons license | |||||
Tenchi Muyo! | |||||
Tenra War | Japanese | ||||
Tephra: The Steampunk RPG | |||||
TerraDrive | |||||
Terra Incognita | |||||
Terra Primate | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||
Terra the Gunslinger | western and steampunk, use playing cards instead of dice | Japanese | |||
game set during the End Times | |||||
Theatrix | Backstage Press | 1993 | |||
Thieves' Guild | |||||
Thieves' World | |||||
Tibet: The Roleplaying Game | Vajra Enterprises | historical fantasy set in Tibet | |||
Time & Time Again | |||||
Time Lord — Adventures through Time and Space | a Doctor Who RPG based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | ||||
Timelords | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||
Timemaster | Pacesetter Ltd; Goblinoid Games | 1984; 2011 | |||
Timeship | Yaquinto | ||||
To Challenge Tomorrow | |||||
Tokyo NOVA | cyberpunk | Japanese | |||
Toon | Steve Jackson Games | cartoon adventure inspired by the classic cartoon series from Warner Brothers and MGM | |||
Top Secret | TSR, Inc. | espionage adventure | |||
TORG | West End Games | ||||
Total Eclipse RPG | Shrapnel Games | by - Smart phone optimized role playing game | |||
Trail of Cthulhu | Pelgrane Press | ||||
Transhuman Space | Steve Jackson Games | ||||
Chroniques d'Outre-Monde | contemporary police and counter-terrorism adventures | French | |||
Traveller | GDW | by Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren K. Wiseman. | |||
Traveller: 2300 | |||||
Brazilian game about other worlds | |||||
Tri-Stat dX | |||||
Tribe 8 | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Steve Jackson Games | |||||
Thrilling Tales | Pulp Amazing Stories | ||||
Trinity | White Wolf Publishing | ||||
Trollbabe | |||||
True20 | |||||
Truth & Justice | |||||
Tunnels and Trolls | Flying Buffalo | ||||
TWERPS | Lou Zocchi | ||||
Twilight 2000 | GDW | 1984 | |||
Twilight Imperium: The Role-Playing Game |
U[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
by Sean Gomes | |||||
Underground | Mayfair Games | ||||
' | Urban fantasy set in modern day New York | ||||
The Unexplained | |||||
Eos Press | |||||
Unisystem | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||
Universalis | |||||
Universe | SPI | subtitle The Role-Playing Game of the Future | |||
Unknown Armies | |||||
a free and universal RPG Rules System | |||||
Usagi Yojimbo | based on the comic book series, Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai | ||||
a new and different RPG | |||||
Uuhraah! |
V[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Valley of the Pharaohs | Palladium Books | ||||
Vampire: The Dark Ages | White Wolf Publishing | ||||
Vampire: The Masquerade | White Wolf Publishing (1st, 2nd and revised editions)
Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) Modiphius Entertainment(5th edition) |
Storytelling System | 1991
1992 1998 2011 2018 |
World of Darkness | |
Vampire: The Requiem | (new World of Darkness) | ||||
Sane Studios | |||||
Victorian Adventure | SKS Distribution | ||||
Victorian Age: Vampire | White Wolf | ||||
Victoriana - 2nd edition | Cubicle 7 Entertainment | ||||
Victorian Gothic | 2020 | Gothic Horror | A dark world of the penny dreadful. | ||
Villains and Vigilantes | Fantasy Games Unlimited, | ||||
Violence | Hogshead Publishing | ||||
VixeM, Villanos por el Mundo | Oscar Iglesias | 2014 | Second line villains trying to save the world |
W[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Warcraft the Roleplaying Game | White Wolf Publishing | roleplaying game book based on the popular computer game by Blizzard | |||
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay | Games Workshop | ||||
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Games Workshop[14] | ||||
Warheads: Medieval Tales | a comically based tabletop roleplaying war game | ||||
WARS Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | ||||
Wayfarers | |||||
Weapons of the Gods | Eos Press | a wuxia-style game based on the manhua comic of the same name | |||
Weird Wars | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | ||||
Werewolf: The Apocalypse | original World of Darkness | ||||
Werewolf: The Forsaken | 2.0 | ||||
Werewolf: The Wild West by White Wolf | |||||
What Price Glory?! | |||||
The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game | TSR, Inc. | d20 System | based on The Wheel of Time novel series by author Robert Jordan | ||
When Worlds Collide | |||||
The Whispering Vault | an RPG about god-hunting | ||||
MAG | Polish | ||||
Wild Talents | Arc Dream Publishing | ||||
Wild West | |||||
Witchcraft | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||
Witch Hunt | |||||
Witch Hunter: The Invisible World | |||||
With Great Power... | |||||
Wizards' Realm | |||||
Wizards' World | |||||
Woof meow (role-playing game) | 1988 | ||||
World Action And Adventure | |||||
World of Darkness (original) and the World of Darkness (new) "2.0" | White Wolf Publishing | product line | |||
The World of Indiana Jones | West End Games | ||||
Fantasy RPG | |||||
World of Synnibarr | WonderWorld Press | ||||
World Tree | roleplaying in a high-magic, highly civilized world populated by many sentient species, none of them human | ||||
Worlds Beyond | |||||
Worlds of Wonder | Chaosium | ||||
Wraith: The Great War | |||||
Wraith: The Oblivion | original World of Darkness | ||||
Dan Bayn released under the Creative Commons license. | |||||
Key 20 Publishing |
X[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Y[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
written by Zach Owens and Jeremy Sanecki. This is a strategic role-playing game. | |||||
Year of the Phoenix | |||||
D20 Modern | |||||
Ysgarth | written by Timothy Willard |
Z[]
Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Traveller | Scifi, Cyberpunk | By Paul Elliot | |||
Zen and the Art of Mayhem | |||||
(French) by Siroz (satiric gang wars in the contemporary suburbs) | |||||
The Zorcerer of Zo | |||||
Zweihänder | Grim & Perilous Studios | (Written by Daniel Fox. Deliberately similar in tone and rules mechanics to Warhammer FRP) |
See also[]
List of role-playing game designers, annotated with a few significant games to which each designer has contributed.
References[]
- ^ Ryan, Michael. "Author". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "d20 Modern website". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "d20 Past website". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "d20 System website". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
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- ^ ISBN 1979905711
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External links[]
- A longer list can be found at http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/
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