List of tabletop role-playing games
This is a list of notable tabletop 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Cutting Edge Games | 1990 | |||
| Agone (French) | Multisim Editions | 1999 | Edited in French by Multisim Editions and translated in English by Multisim Editions | ||
| 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 | Afterthought Images | 1991 | |||
| Alma Mater | Oracle Games | 1982 | Comic high school | ||
| Alshard (Japanese) | Far East Amusement Research / Enterbrain | 2002, 2005 | Fantasy with mecha like Final Fantasy | ||
| 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Coriolis | Free League Publishing | SciFi Roleplaying in the Third Horizon | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Cyberpunk RED | R. Talsorian Games | ||||
| Cyberspace | Iron Crown Enterprises | ||||
| Cyborg Commando | New Infinities, Inc. |
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| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Doc's Games | 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 | |||
| Dragon Age | Green Ronin | ||||
| Dragon Ball Z - Anime Adventure Game | |||||
| 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 | Dick Wulf | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
| Elven Fire | 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 | 21st Century Games | 1987 | |||
| Engel | |||||
| Enhanced: Humans and Heroes | Impact Engine | A superhero RPG | |||
| Eon | NeoGames | Swedish fantasy game | |||
| Epic Role Playing | Dark Matter Studios | ||||
| ERA | Clinica TBF | ||||
| Erdor | |||||
| E-RPG System | Ironwood Omnimedia | ||||
| The Esoterrorists | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2006 | Horror | |
| Espionage! | Hero Games | Based on Second Edition Champions | |||
| Eternal Soldier | Tai-Gear Simulations | 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 | |||||
| Evolve Gaming System | Inkwell Gaming | Plug-and-Play System with multiple complexity tiers for all skill levels. | |||
| EW-System | Extraordinary Worlds Studio | Open game system | |||
| Ex Machina | Scifi, Cyberpunk | ||||
| Exalted | White Wolf Publishing | Epic fantasy; potential pre-history of World of Darkness | |||
| Exodus: Post Apocalyptic RPG | Glutton Creeper Games | ||||
| EXO | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fading Suns | Holistic Design | ||||
| Faery's Tale | Firefly Games | An interactive storytelling game of fairy folklore suitable for younger players | |||
| Faith: the Sci-Fi RPG | Burning Games LTD | RPC54 | 2015 | Hard science fiction | |
| Faldon | Illusory Studios | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Fantasy Heartbreaker Roleplaying Game | SubCellar Games | D20 | |||
| Fantasy Hero | |||||
| Fantasy Imperium | Shadowstar Games, Inc. | An interactive storytelling game of historical fantasy | |||
| The Fantasy Trip | Steve Jackson, published by Metagaming Concepts | The precursor to GURPS | |||
| The Fantasy Sagas | E-RPG System | A Player's Guidebook for Ironwood Omnimedia | |||
| Fantasy Wargaming | |||||
| Fantasy West Adventures | Oscar Iglesias | Custom PbtA | 2015 | Adventures in a fantasy wild west setting | |
| Farscape Roleplaying Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | ||||
| Fastlane | 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 | Andrew Valkauskas | 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 | |||||
| Fight the Evil Power | 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 | HobbyHorse Games, LLC | 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. | ||
| Friendly Wars | Undecided Studios | ||||
| Fringeworthy | Tri Tac Games | ||||
| FTL:2448 | Tri Tac Games | ||||
| FUBAR | Vulpinoid Studio | ||||
| FUDGE | Steffan O'Sullivan | FUDGE | "Free, Universal, Do-it-Yourself Gaming Engine" | ||
| Furry Outlaws | |||||
| Furry Pirates | |||||
| Fusion | Høst og Søn | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G-Core | Dilly Green Bean Games | Modified FASERIP | 2010 | Superhero Rules | Modernized version of classic Marvel FASERIP with more than 200 supplements. Versions: G-Core, G-Core Deluxe, G-Core PRIME, and G-Core X. |
| 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 | |||
| Ganghedge | Empire Wargames | ||||
| Gangster! | |||||
| Gatecrasher | A tongue-in-cheek science-fiction & fantasy setting | ||||
| Gaterunner | Based on the novel Gatecrash | ||||
| 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 by Noel W. Clarke and Kevin D. Clarke | |
| 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. | |||
| Godbound | |||||
| Ghoulash: The Last Game on Earth | |||||
| Godlike | Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press | ||||
| Golden Heroes | Games Workshop | ||||
| Gossip Beverly Hills | Based on the Gossip Girl TV series | ||||
| The Great Commission | d20 | A Christian RPG | |||
| Grey Ranks | Jason Morningstar | ||||
| Grimm | |||||
| Guardians | StarChilde Publications | ||||
| GUMSHOE System | |||||
| Gunslingers and Gamblers | The American Wild West of 1876 | ||||
| Guns Of Santa Torina | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HackMaster | Kenzer & Company | based on the comic Knights of the Dinner Table | |||
| Hakobune | by Tim Peare | ||||
| Halcyon | Neuwerld Studios | ||||
| Happy Birthday, Robot! | |||||
| HardNova II | |||||
| HârnMaster | Columbia Games | Hârn | |||
| HARPE | 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!) | ||||
| Hc Svnt Dracones | Weapons Grade Funk | Post-human cyberpunk. | |||
| Heaven & Earth | |||||
| Heavy Gear | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
| Hercules & Xena Roleplaying Game | |||||
| Heretics | Wasteland Games | 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 | ||||
| Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icar by Rob Lang | a free science-fiction game | ||||
| Imagine Role Playing | |||||
| Immortal: The Invisible War | Ran Valerhon | ||||
| Ironhedge | Empire Wargames | ||||
| 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 | Inner City Games | ||||
| Inou Tsukai | |||||
| InSaNiTy the role-playing game | Haphazard Projects | uses the in-house DPS System | |||
| Insight RPG System | Even V. Røssland / NEVR | ||||
| InSpectres | Memento Mori Theatricks | ||||
| Invisible Sun | Monte Cook Games | related to Cypher System | 2018-2020 | The Actuality, comprising eight worlds arranged in the Path of Suns | surreal fantasy where the players take the roles of powerful magic-users |
| Ironclaw | Sanguine Productions Ltd | ||||
| Iron Kingdoms | Privateer Press | ||||
| Iron Gauntlets: Heroic Fantasy Roleplaying | |||||
| Ironhedge | |||||
| Iron Heroes | d20 system | based on making D&D playable without magic | |||
| It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show | Stellar Games | ||||
| It Was a Mutual Decision | |||||
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| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jadeclaw | Sanguine Productions Ltd | ||||
| Jags | |||||
| JailLords - 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 | StarChilde Publications | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KABAL | |||||
| Khymir | Daes Irae Press | (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) | |
| Kingdom of Nothing | Galileo Games | ||||
| Knights and Magick | |||||
| Knights of the Round Table | |||||
| Kobolds Ate My Baby! | 9th Level Games | ||||
| Krysztaly Czasu | MAG | (Polish, Crystals of Time) | |||
| 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 | |||
| Lamentations of the Flame Princess | |||||
| 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 | |||
| Légendes Celtiques | French | ||||
| Légendes de la Vallée des rois | set in Ancient Egypt | French RPG | |||
| Legendy Armandie | fantasy RPG | Skaven | |||
| Legends and Loot | 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 Rob Donahuge | ||
| Lightspeed | Instant Fuzion | an overtly generic space opera RPG | by Christian Conkle | ||
| Little Fears - The Role-playing Game of Childhood Terror | Key 20 Publishing | ||||
| Live Free or Die, the Game of Suburban Insurgency | 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 | |||||
| M.A.G.U.S. | Hungarian | ||||
| Maji | Wasteland Games | 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 | |||||
| Mashou Denki La Valeur | |||||
| Mecha | a game based on Anime Mecha science fiction | ||||
| Mechamorphosis | Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
| Mechanical Dream | |||||
| The Mechanoid Invasion | Palladium | ||||
| MechWarrior | |||||
| Mega - les Messagers Galactiques | parallel universe | French | |||
| MEGA Role-Playing System | |||||
| Megaverse | Palladium Books | ||||
| Meikyu kingdom | 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 | ||||
| Metal Magic and Lore | 5th Epoch Publishing | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Midnight | A fantasy world were the bad guys have won | ||||
| Midnight at the Well of Souls Role-Playing System | |||||
| Miles Christi | 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 | |||||
| The Modern Sagas | Ironwood Omnimedia Company | E-RPG System | A Player's Guidebook | ||
| Mojo | Polymancer Studios, Inc. | ||||
| Monastyr | Portal | Polish, Monastery | |||
| The Monster Horror Show | 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 E.R. Jones and M. Joseph Young | |||
| 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 RYMD | |||||
| Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare | by Järnringen Förlag AB | ||||
| Mutants & Masterminds | Green Ronin Publishing | ||||
| Mutazoids | |||||
| My Life with Master | Half Meme Press | ||||
| MYFAROG - Mythic Fantasy Role-playing Game | by Varg Vikernes | ||||
| Myrskyn aika | by Mike Pohjola | ||||
| Mystic Realms | |||||
| Mystic Quests | |||||
| _The Role Playing Game | |||||
| Mythworld | |||||
N
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nastrand | Oscar Iglesias | Custom FitD | 2018 | Earth after Ragnarök | |
| The Nearside Project | Greymalkin Designs | previously released in 1996, new edition in 2011 | adventure between 13 alternate Earths while avoiding insanity | ||
| Necroscope | |||||
| Neighborhood | |||||
| Neiyar: Land of Heaven and the Abyss | Bards and Sages | ||||
| NeoKosmos | Krypteia Estúdio Criativo | a setting of Greek Mythology | in Portuguese | ||
| Nephilim | Chaosium | modern occult | |||
| Neuroshima | Portal | Polish | |||
| Nexus: The Infinite City | |||||
| Nicotine Girls | by Paul Czege | ||||
| Nightbane | |||||
| Nightlife | Stellar Games | ||||
| Night of the Ninja | |||||
| Night's Black Agents | |||||
| Nights of the Crusades | 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 Mischa L. Thomas | |||||
| Noir | Archon Gaming, Inc. | ||||
| Normality | a Dada/ergodic role-playing game | by Hugh Dingwall and Vishãla Jekic | |||
| Noctum | |||||
| Northern Crown | |||||
| Nova Praxis | Void Star Studios | FATE | 2013 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |
| Novus | Firehawk Games | ||||
| Now Playing | Carnivore Games | ||||
| Numenera | Monte Cook Games | ||||
O
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsidian - The Age of Judgement | Apophis Consortium | 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 | Modified 3d6 | 2011-Present | Contemporary, Modern Fantasy, Near-Future Sci-Fi | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Outbreak: Undead | Hunters Books | ||||
| Outime | |||||
| Over the Edge' | Atlas Games | ||||
| Over Arms | Rookie Jet Studio | ||||
P
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paladin | |||||
| Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game | Palladium Books | ||||
| Pandemonium! | MIB Productions | roleplaying in the world of tabloid news | |||
| Pantheon | |||||
| Path of the Oracle role playing game | |||||
| Paper Computer Games | 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! | |||||
| Plüsch, Power & Plunder (German) | |||||
| Pirates and Plunder | |||||
| Polaris (1997) | |||||
| Polaris | 2005 | ||||
| Point Blank | Wasteland Games | modern-day Action movie game | |||
| The Pokéthulhu Adventure Game | Cumberland Games and Diversions | ||||
| The Pool | |||||
| PowerGame | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Project: Paradigm | Eschaton Media Inc | ||||
| Promethean: The Created | White Wolf Publishing | new World of Darkness | |||
| Psiworld | Fantasy Games Unlimited | SF adventures with a focus on psi abilities | |||
| Pulp Adventure | Planet Pulp Productions | High Adventure Gaming cinematic style | |||
| Puppetland | |||||
Q
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q10 | |||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rangers of Taradoin | by Sean-Robert Shaw | ||||
| Raex: The roleplaying adventure experience | 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 | ||||
| Red Dwarf: The Role Playing Game | deep 7 | 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 Denis Gerfaud (French, Rêve de Dragon) | ||||
| The Riddle of Steel | Driftwood Publishing | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Rotted Capes | Paradigm Concepts | Post apocalyptic super hero zombies | |||
| Rules to Live By | Interactivities Ink | generic customizable live action rules system, with expansions for horror and fantasy | |||
| Rune | |||||
| Rune Striders | |||||
| Runebearer | "Magic and religion clash in a ruined world" | by Chris Magoun | |||
| RuneQuest[11] | Chaosium, versions also by Avalon Hill and Mongoose Publishing | ||||
| RuneSlayers | |||||
| Ryuutama | Kotodama Heavy Industries | 2015 | "Natural fantasy for stories of travel, exploration, and adventure." | by Atsuhiro Okada |
S
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saga | fantasy | Swedish | |||
| SAGA System | |||||
| Sanctum Polis - Rest Eternal Memory | indie anthropomorphic | ||||
| Sandman: Map of Halaal | |||||
| Satasupe | (Japanese) | ||||
| Savage Worlds | |||||
| The Sci-Fi Sagas | Ironwood Omnimedia Company | E-RPG System | A Player's Guidebook | ||
| Scion: Hero | White Wolf Publishing | Modern day children of the gods | |||
| Sea Dracula (The role-playing game of lawyers in animal city) | Nick Smith and Jake Richmond | ||||
| Second Dawn | |||||
| Sengoku | Gold Rush Games | Historical fantasy set in feudal Japan | |||
| SenZar | notorious for its blatant encouragement of munchkinism | ||||
| El Séquito | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2015 | Spanish Golden Age scifi | ||
| Serenity | Margaret Weis Productions | 2005-2009 | Serenity film | (The Firefly (television series) is getting its own RPG also from MWP due to licensing). | |
| Seventh Sea | Alderac Entertainment Company | ||||
| The Shab-al-Hiri Roach | |||||
| Shadowforce Archer | Alderac Entertainment Group | a setting for Spycraft | |||
| Shadow Lords | about epic Heroes, Immortals, Titans, Angels and Demons. | ||||
| Shadow Nations | Obsidian Europe | 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 | |||||
| Simply Roleplaying! | Microtactix | a simple and customizable generic open gaming system similar to Fuzion and the Action! System | |||
| Simple System | 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 | ||
| Sojourner's Quest: A Fantasy Role Playing Game | 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 | |||
| Space Gothic | German crossover between military science fiction, space opera and horror | ||||
| Space Infantry | |||||
| Space Opera | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
| Spacemaster | SF adaptation of Rolemaster | ||||
| SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO | Crucible Design | a tongue-in-cheek anime game | |||
| Space Quest | |||||
| Spaceship Zero | Green Ronin Publishing | ||||
| SpaceTime | |||||
| The Spawn of Fashan | |||||
| Sphinx | Sphinx is a historical fantasy role-playing game taking place in ancient Egypt. Sphinx was published by Seventh Scarab 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 | |||
| The Squared Circle | Day Dreamer Interactive | ||||
| Squawk | Game Arts Guild | 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 | ||
| Starhedge | Empire Wargames | ||||
| Star Hero | Fantasy Hero | SF adaptation of Hero System | |||
| Star Legend | (Japanese) | ||||
| Star Patrol | |||||
| Star Riders | Ianus Games | parody of space opera | |||
| Star Rovers | |||||
| StarRun | QaEG | ||||
| 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 | |||
| SteamCraft | Perilous Journeys Publishing | Steampunk, Neo-Victorian | |||
| Steve Perrin's Quest Rules | |||||
| STOCS | Wasteland Games | modern-day generic system | |||
| Stormbringer | Chaosium | based on Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné stories | |||
| Storytelling System | |||||
| St. Palmer's | Pirate/West Indies | ||||
| The Strange | Monte Cook Games | Cypher System | |||
| Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game | |||||
| Strike Legion | Legionnaire Games | Over-the-top science fiction | |||
| Strontium Dog | Mongoose Publishing | Traveller | 2009 | ||
| Sundered Epoch: Generations | Randal Snyder | multi-genre game system | |||
| Super Crusaders | Lee Walser | modern-day super hero system | |||
| Super Powers Unlimited | 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
U
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncharted Worlds | by Sean Gomes | ||||
| Underground | Mayfair Games | ||||
| Underworld | Synister Creative Systems | Urban fantasy set in modern day New York | |||
| The Unexplained | Carnivore Games | ||||
| Unhallowed Metropolis | Eos Press | ||||
| Unisystem | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||
| Universalis | |||||
| Universe | SPI | subtitle The Role-Playing Game of the Future | |||
| Unknown Armies | |||||
| URPG | a free and universal RPG Rules System | ||||
| Usagi Yojimbo | based on the comic book series, Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai | ||||
| USS Infinity | a new and different RPG | ||||
| Uuhraah! | |||||
V
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaesen | Free League Publishing | Nordic Horror Roleplaying | |||
| 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) | ||||
| Vanishing Point (role-play game) | Sane Studios | ||||
| Victorian Adventure | SKS Distribution | ||||
| Victorian Age: Vampire | White Wolf | ||||
| Victoriana - 2nd edition | Cubicle 7 Entertainment | ||||
| Victorian Gothic | Arcanus Press | Epic Dice System | 2020 | Gothic Horror | A dark world of the penny dreadful. |
| Villains and Vigilantes | Fantasy Games Unlimited, Monkey House Games | ||||
| Violence | Hogshead Publishing | ||||
| VixeM, Villanos por el Mundo | Oscar Iglesias | 2014 | Second line villains trying to save the world | ||
W
X
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xcrawl | |||||
Y
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-Modus | Dark Juju Games | written by Zach Owens and Jeremy Sanecki. This is a strategic role-playing game. | |||
| Year of the Phoenix | |||||
| Year of the Zombie | UKGames Publishing | D20 Modern | |||
| Ysgarth | written by Timothy Willard | ||||
Z
| Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaibatsu | Traveller | Scifi, Cyberpunk | By Paul Elliot | ||
| Zen and the Art of Mayhem | |||||
| Zone | (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
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- "d20 Past website". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
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