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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.
Quest is a rules-light, fantasy tabletop role-playing game designed to welcome beginners to the hobby. [1] It was created in 2019 by T.C. Sottek, executive editor at The Verge . [ 2 ] It was published by Sottek's indie publishing company , the Adventure Guild, after a Kickstarter campaign raised $153,614. [ 3 ]
During quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has allowed a variety of real life games to transition online, facilitating RPGs in an online space. In July 2022, it was announced that Roll20 would merge with OneBookShelf to become a new company. In June 2024, Roll20 purchased the digital tabletop role-playing toolset company Demiplane.
Since role-playing games originally developed from wargames, there are many historical and alternate-history RPGs based on Earth. The settings for such games are excluded from this list, unless they include significant fictional elements. Many RPG campaign settings are based on fictional universes from books, comics, video games, or films.
This is a list of companies that have produced tabletop role-playing games in English, listed in order of the year that the company published its first role-playing game-related product (game, supplement, or magazine). Also listed is the years the company was active, and a list of notable role-playing games the company has produced.
The set of rules of a role-playing game is known as its game system; the rules themselves are known as game mechanics. Although there are game systems which are shared by many games, for example, the d20 system, many games have their own, custom rules system. Game rules determine the success or failure of a character's actions, or adjudicate ...
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.
Connor Hogg for GameRant called Dread a "beautifully unique RPG system" and recommended it for "a slasher one-shot session or a horror-themed campaign." [ 11 ] Writing for Play Unplugged , Paul Carboni commented, " Dread ' s flexibility is a product of its simple and surprisingly innovative character creation and conflict resolution systems."