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  2. Tabletop role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes movements.

  3. Role-playing game theory - Wikipedia

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    Role-playing game theory is the study of role-playing games (RPGs) as a social or artistic phenomenon, also known as ludology.RPG theories seek to understand what role-playing games are, how they function, and how the gaming process can be refined in order to improve the play experience and produce better game products.

  4. Play-by-post role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    An example of a play-by-post roleplaying game. A play-by-post role-playing game (or sim) is an online text-based role-playing game in which players interact with each other and a predefined environment via text. It is a subset of the online role-playing community which caters to both gamers and creative writers.

  5. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    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 character's actions.

  6. Storytelling game - Wikipedia

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    Collaborative fiction is a form of storytelling which uses collaborative writing as the primary medium. A group of authors share creative control of a story. Exquisite Corpse, a Surrealist parlour game, is an example of a collaborative writing game. [1] [2] [3] The parlour game Consequences is similar. [4]

  7. Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) [2] is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. [3] [4] [5] The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). [5] It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997.

  8. History of role-playing games - Wikipedia

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    The new D&D rules became known as the d20 system, and a System Reference Document was published, containing all the rules needed to write a supplement or run a one-off game, but lacking the character advancement rules necessary for long-term play. [53]

  9. Role-playing game terms - Wikipedia

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    Adventure: A set of game sessions united by characters and by narrative sequence, setting or goal. [1] [2]Armor Class (or AC): The difficulty to hit a specified target, abstracted from its dodging capacity and armor.