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This is a list of notable tabletop role-playing games. It does not include computer role-playing games, MMORPGs, play-by-mail/email games, 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.
The following is a timeline of tabletop role-playing games. For computer role-playing games see here. The publication year listed here is the year of the first edition in the original country. Additional editions, translations or adaptations for use in other countries are not included in this list.
Within the rules, players have the freedom to improvise, and their choices shape the direction and outcome of the game. [2] Neither pen and paper nor a table are strictly necessary for a game to count as a TTRPG; rather, the terms pen-and-paper and tabletop are typically used to distinguish this format of RPG from role-playing video games or ...
Knights of Pen & Paper is a turn-based RPG with the twist that the game itself exists in the imaginations of a group of Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing game players, who are also shown. [3] The player can control not only the players of the in-universe game, but also the Dungeon Master, allowing them to choose which battles to fight. [3]
The gameplay of Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is similar to the first game in the series. It is a turn-based RPG in which the player controls a group of role-playing game players during a Dungeons & Dragons-style game session, as well as their Dungeon Master. [1] The gameplay was streamlined from the first game, requiring less grinding, but is also ...
Glutton Creeper Games obtained a license from Interplay to create a Fallout pen and paper role-playing game based on the d20 Modern system in 2006. Legal complications arose in mid-2007, when Bethesda Softworks' lawyers claimed Interplay was unable to license a role-playing game, and annulled the license deal.
Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of is a sword and sorcery pen-and-paper role-playing game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, the fictional Hyborian Age. Both the character and the setting were first imagined by author Robert E. Howard .
Pen-and-paper games like Dungeons & Dragons frequently make use of verbal depictions given by dungeon masters to suggest to players what is of interest in a setting. Similarly, in Temple of Apshai the player matches an on-screen room number to its entry in the manual that accompanies the game.