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  2. Role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, [1][2] or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character ...

  3. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    TRPGs. v. t. e. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that ...

  4. Basic Role-Playing - Wikipedia

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    1980, 1982, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2023. Genres. Universal. Basic Role-Playing (BRP) is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the BRP standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of RuneQuest. Greg Stafford and Lynn Willis are credited as the authors.

  5. Top Secret (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

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    The original version of Top Secret was designed by Merle M. Rasmussen, [2] and allows players and gamemasters to build their own espionage story settings. The original boxed set of the game included a 64-page rule book and a sample adventure, "Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle". The TSR Product Code for the original boxed set is TSR-7006. [3]

  6. Grand Theft Auto IV - Wikipedia

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    Single-player, multiplayer. Grand Theft Auto IV is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sixth main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and the eleventh entry overall. Set in the fictional Liberty City, based on New York City, the ...

  7. List of tabletop role-playing games - Wikipedia

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    a.k.a. 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 Eat the Reich: Rowan, Rook and Decard 2023 World War II, horror: A one-shot game of heroic vampires sucking the blood of Nazis, esigned ...

  8. History of role-playing games - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of role-playing games begins with an earlier tradition of role-playing, which combined with the rulesets of fantasy wargames in the 1970s to give rise to the modern role-playing game. [1] A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories.

  9. Tactical role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    Role-playing video games. Tactical role-playing games[1][2][3][4] (abbreviated TRPGs), also known as strategy role-playing games[5][6] and in Japan as simulation RPGs[a] (both abbreviated SRPGs), are a video game genre that combines core elements of role-playing video games with those of tactical (turn-based or real-time) strategy video games.