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List of role-playing games


This is a list of notable 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
Pelgrane
13th Age d20 2013 Fantasy By Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo
Press
Game Future of the
1989
2300 AD Designers' Twilight 2000 Originally called Traveller 2300AD
-
Workshop universe
Editora
Talismã
3D&T (formerly A Brazilian generic system, turned to anime-style campaigns
Trama
Editorial)
Alderac
Entertainment
1999, Pirates /
7th Sea Group / John Designed by John Wick (game designer)
2016 Swashbuckling
Wick
Presents
Fireside Ward Card Post apocalyptic
77 Worlds Designed by Stephen A Lee & James M. Ward
Creations System Earth
9th
Generation

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Modified Super-hero
White Wolf Storyteller
Aberrant 1999 characters in Part of the Trinity series
Publishing
d20 the near future

Academia Oscar Hich School


2021 QSR in the author's site (http://psilan.net/academiatitan/)
TITÁN Iglesias Mecha Panic
Aces &
Eights: Kenzer and A Western role-
2007
Shattered Company playing game.
Frontier
Precis
Active
Intermedia 2002
Exploits
Gaming
Advanced
Dungeons & TSR, Inc. (See also Dungeons & Dragons)
Dragons
Advanced
Fighting Cubicle 7
Fantasy
Adventure! 1985
White Wolf Modified A pulp
Adventure! 2001 Part of the Trinity series
Publishing Storyteller adventure
Line of "generic
Adventurers' Adventurers' The Adventurers' Guild Bestiary, Adventurers' Guild Bounty Hunters'
1987 fantasy"
Guild Guild Handbook, Adventurers' Guild Sage's Tome, The Adventurers' Guild Tome
supplements
Adventures
in Fantasy
The
Adventures
of Indiana
TSR, Inc. 1984
Jones Role-
Playing
Game
Adventures
in Middle- Cubicle 7 d20 2016 fantasy Based upon The One Ring RPG
earth
After The Palladium 1986,
Bomb Books 2001
Fantasy
Aftermath! Games 1981
Unlimited
Age of the
Tempest
Cutting Edge
Age of Ruin 1990
Games
Agone Multisim Edited in French by Multisim Editions and translated in English by Multisim
1999
(French) Editions Editions
Based on the
Thoughts & furry comic
Albedo Images, 1988, 1993 book series,
Chessex Erma Felna by
Steve Gallacci
Aliens
Leading Edge
Adventure 1990 Science Fiction
Games
Game
All Flesh
Eden Studios, 1999, Zombie survival
Must Be Unisystem
Inc. 2003 horror game
Eaten
All-Star Afterthought
1991
Wrestling Images
Oracle Comic high
Alma Mater 1982
Games school
Alshard Far East 2002, Fantasy with
(Japanese) Amusement 2005 mecha like

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Research / Final Fantasy
Enterbrain
Alshard Gaia Alshard A contemporary
2006
(Japanese) system fantasy
Alternity TSR, Inc. 1998 SciFi
Amazing
TSR, Inc. 1993
Engine
Amber Based on the
Diceless Phage Press Diceless 1991 works of Roger
Roleplaying Zelazny
Anima:
Edge 2005, Spanish RPG, a collaboration of Eastern and Western developers RPG
Beyond
Entertainment 2010 with anime-style artworks
Fantasy
Eden Studios, Cinematic
Angel 2003 Urban fantasy A spin-off of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game
Inc. Unisystem
A post-
Apocalypse Lumpley apocalyptic Created by D. Vincent Baker. First RPG using the Powered by the
PbtA 2010
World Games RPG of politics Apocalypse (PbtA) system
and survival
Arcana Malhavoc
D20 OGL 2003 Fantasy Developed by Monte Cook
Unearthed Press
Archaeron
Archaeron 1980
Games
Grimoire
Games, 1977-
The first cross-
Arduin Emperors 1980, Designed by David A. Hargrave
genre RPG
Choice 1992
Games
Aria
Arianrhod
RPG 2004 Japanese MMORPG-like
(Japanese)
Armageddon:
2089
Armageddon:
Mongoose Mek-based
The End D20 OGL 2003
Publishing warfare
Times
Armored
SciFi game
Trooper
based on the
VOTOMS: R. Talsorian
Fuzion 1997 Armored
The Games
Trooper Votoms
Roleplaying
anime
Game
Army of
Darkness Eden Studios, Cinematic
2005 Zombie horror
Roleplaying Inc. Unisystem
Game
Lion Rampant
(editions 1 &
2)
White Wolf
Ars Magica Publishing Fantasy
(edition 3)
Atlas Games
(editions 4 &
5)
Artesia:
Adventures
Based on the Comic/Graphic Novels by Mark Smylie
in the Known
World
Gritty
Pelgrane GUMSHOE
Ashen Stars 2011 investigative
Press System
Space Opera
Atlantis
Attack of the

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Humans
The Authority
Role-Playing
Game
modified
d20 modern Fantasy setting
Morbidgames
Ave Molech with 3.5 with Steampunk
Publishing
edition technology
races

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


2003,
Mongoose d20 (2nd 2006
Babylon 5 Based on the Babylon 5 TV franchise
Publishing ed.) (2nd
ed.)
Bardos y
Baladas (htt
Epic Bard English version available too in author's site (http://psilan.net/bardos-y-bal
p://psilan.net/
adventures adas/)
bardos-y-bala
das/)
BASH!
Barony
Basic Fantasy
RPG
Basic Role-
Chaosium Role-playing game system
Playing
Batman Role-
Playing Game
Spartacus
BattleDragons Play as dragons in a fantasy world
Publishing
Battlelords of
the 23rd SSDC, Inc.
Century
Battlestar
Margaret
Galactica
Weis 2007 Based on the SciFi TV series
Role Playing
Productions
Game
Behind
Enemy Lines
Beyond the
Palladium Modern Day Horrors
Supernatural
Bifrost Skytrex Ltd. 1982
Big Bang
Comics RPG
Big Eyes, Guardians
Anime-based RPG
Small Mouth of Order
Black
Crusade
Blackwatch
Blade of
Arcana
Powered by
Blades in the Evil Hat
the 2017 Urban fantasy
Dark Productions
Apocalypse
Blood Dawn SSDC, Inc.
Blood of
Heroes
Bloodlust
Edited by Asmodée Editions
(French)
2nd Edition by Fantasy Flight
Biohazard
Blue Planet
Games proposed 3rd Edition by Biohazard Games

Green
Blue Rose
Ronin
Boot Hill TSR, Inc. 1975 Wild West adventure
Brave New
World
Breaking the
Ice
Bubblegum Scifi, Cyberpunk
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Crisis
Buccaneer
Buck Rogers 1990-
TSR, Inc.
XXVC 1992
Buffy the
Eden
Vampire Unisystem 2002 Based on the TV show of the same name
Studios, Inc.
Slayer
Bullwinkle
and Rocky
Role-Playing
Party Game
Steve
Bunnies and
Jackson Out of print
Burrows
Games
Bureau 13:
Stalking the Tri Tac
Night Games
Fantastic
Burn Bryte Roll20 2020 science fantasy Design tailored to be played on a virtual tabletop platform
Burning
Empires
The Burning
High fantasy
Wheel
Fantasy
Bushido Games Samurai RPG set in Feudal Japan
Unlimited
Ragnarok
By the Gods 1986
Enterprises

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Cadillacs and Game Designer's
Dinosaurs 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 & OGL
Troll Lord Games Fantasy RPG
Crusades System
Castle Steampunk
Falkenstein fantasy
The Castle
Perilous
Cazadores (htt
Monster
p://psilan.net/ca Oscar Iglesias 2017
hunters
zadores/)
Challengers
The Challenges
Game System
Champions Hero Games
White Wolf (1st and 2nd
editions) 1995

Changeling: The Onyx Path Publishing Storytelling 1997 (Original World


Dreaming System of Darkness)
( 20th anniversary
2017
edition)

Changeling: The (New World of


Lost Darkness)
Children of the
Misguided Games
Sun
Chill
Chivalry &
Sorcery
Chronicles of
White Silver
Ramlar
French RPG of
Les Chroniques oneiric fantasy
Edited by Boite a Polpette
d'Erdor using a 54 card
deck
The tabletop companion to the City of
City of Heroes Eden Studios, Inc.
Heroes MMORPG
A noir (detective) RPG set in a
City of Mist (htt modern-day city where once-ordinary
Son of Oak Game Studio
p://cityofmist.co) people hold the power ancient myths
and legends.
Commando
"ZeFRS"
(Zeb's
Conan Role- The official TSR Conan role-playing
TSR Fantasy 1985 Hyborian Age
Playing Game game, finally published in 1985
Roleplaying
System)
Conan: Modiphius Entertainment 2d20 2017 Hyborian Age Conan: Adventures in an Age
Adventures in system Undreamed Of was developed by a
team of game designers, writers and

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an Age artists, all led by Chris Birch of
Undreamed Of Modiphius Entertainment. The rights
to publish this derivative work were
licensed from Conan Properties
International.
A year before the release of the core
rulebook, in 1988, Steve Jackson
GURPS Conan Steve Jackson Games GURPS 1989 Hyborian Age Games published a solo adventure
titled GURPS Conan: Beyond
Thunder River
Conan: The One of the role-playing games in the
d20
Roleplaying Mongoose Publishing 2004-2010 Hyborian Age Mongoose Publishing OGL System
System
Game series
The
Confederate
Rangers
extraterrestrials,
UFOs, and
Conspiracy X Eden Studios, Inc.
government
coverups
Time travel
C°ntinuum
adventure
Core Command Dream Pod 9
Corporation the
Scifi,
Roleplaying Core Games Publishing
Cyberpunk
Game
Blacksburg Tactical
CORPS
Research Center
An addendum to the Stormbringer
Corum
RPG (aka Elric!)
Creeks and
Crawdads
Crime Fighter
Crimefighters TSR 1981
Crystalicum
(Polish)
H.P. Lovecraft's
horror with
CthulhuTech Wildfire Mecha and
Anime
influences
Cursed Empire Chris Loizou Dark fantasy Formerly known as Crimson Empire
Cutthroat: The
Shadow Wars
Alternate
setting for
Cybergeneration R. Talsorian Games
Cyberpunk
2020
Out-of-print and superseded by
Cyberpunk 2013 R. Talsorian Games
Cyberpunk 2020
Cyberpunk 2020 R. Talsorian Games
Cyberspace Iron Crown Enterprises
Cyborg
New Infinities, Inc.
Commando

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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
In-house
system,
D6 System West End Games based on
the Star
Wars RPG
Wizards of the Generic
d20 Future d20 System
Coast[1] futuristic

Wizards of the Generic


d20 Modern d20 System
Coast[2] modern

Wizards of the Generic


d20 Past d20 System
Coast[3] historical

Based on
Wizards of the Dungeons &
d20 System
Coast[4] Dragons 3rd
Edition rules
Dallas
Danger espionage
Hero Games
International adventure
Dangerous
Journeys by Game Designers'
E. Gary Workshop
Gygax
Pulp era
Daredevils
mystery
Series of RPGs, including Vampire: The Dark Ages, Dark Ages:
White Wolf
Dark Ages Werewolf, Dark Ages: Mage, Dark Ages: Fae, and Dark Ages:
Publishing
Inquisitor
Dark
Champions
Dark Game Designers'
Conspiracy Workshop
Dark
Dungeons

The Dark Eye Most popular German RPG,[5] known in Germany as Das Schwarze
Auge
Dark Heresy,
Originally by
the
Black Industries,
Warhammer
now developed by
40,000
Fantasy Flight
Roleplay
Games
Game
Dark Streets
Post-
Darwin's
RPGObjects apocalyptic
World
RPG
Dawning Star
DC
Green Ronin
Adventures
DC Heroes Mayfair Games
DC Universe
Roleplaying West End Games
Game
De Profundis
Dead Inside A small-press
RPG where the
characters
attempt to
rebuild their

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lost souls
through
selfless and
noble actions
(and get
superhuman
powers along
the way)
Dead Reign Palladium Books
Pinnacle
Deadlands:
Entertainment
Hell on Earth
Group
Pinnacle
Deadlands:
Entertainment
Lost Colony
Group
Deadlands: Pinnacle
The Weird Entertainment GURPS version by SJGames
West Group
Deathwatch
Deliria: Faerie
Tales for the
Laughing Pan
New
Productions
Millennium by
Phil Brucato
Delta Force:
America
Strikes Back!
Degenesis:
SIXMOREVODKA Katharsys Primal Punk
Rebirth
Demon City
Shinjuku
Role-Playing
Game
Demon
Hunters Role
Playing Game
Demon: The (Original World
White Wolf
Fallen of Darkness)
Demon's Lair Lasalion Games
Deryni
Adventure
Game
Diana: Warrior
By Marcus Rowland
Princess
Hard science
Diaspora VSCA Publishing FATE 2009
fiction
Dice & Glory
Dinky
Doc's Games 1985
Dungeons
Dinosaur
Planet:
Broncosaurus
Rex
OtherWorld
Diomin
Creations
Do: Pilgrims
of the Flying
Temple
The Doctor
Who Role FASA Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series
Playing Game
Doctor Who - Cubicle 7 Based on the 2005–present run of the BBC television series
Adventures In Entertainment
Time And
Space: the

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roleplaying
game
Doctor Who -
Time Lord
Virgin Publishing Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series
(role-playing
game)
Loosely based
on the Mormon
Dogs in the
Lumpley Games State of
Vineyard
Deseret in pre-
statehood Utah
Domination
An open-
source
fantasy
twelve-
Dominion sided-die-
Rules based RPG
encouraging
innovative
combat
system
The Dominion
Tank Police Guardians of Tri-Stat
1999
Role-Playing Order System
Game
Domicile Subcellar Games 2015 A Narrative Roleplaying Game of Supernatural Mystery
Clinton R. Nixon,
Donjon Donjon
Anvilwerks

Don't Let First United action horror in


Them Take Church of d100 2017 the Modern based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft
You Alive Cthulhu[6] Cthulhu Mythos

Don't Look
Mind Ventures 1994
Back
Don't Rest Evil Hat
Your Head Productions
Double Cross Superhero (Japanese)
Loosely
based on
Drací doupe The most popular Czech fantasy RPG system
Dungeons &
Dragons
Dragon Age Green Ronin
Dragon Ball Z
- Anime
https://web.archive.org/web/20021120023158/http://www.talsorian.com/
Adventure
Game
Dragonlance:
Fifth Age
Dragon Lords
of Melniboné
A cross
between
DragonMech
fantasy and
mecha
DragonQuest A now out-of-print RPG, suppressed by TSR
A Christian
DragonRaid Dick Wulf
RPG
Dragonroar
Ward Card
Dragonscales Fireside Creations Fantasy Designed by Stephen A Lee and James M. Ward
System
Where science
Dragonstar fiction and
fantasy blend
Dragon Storm

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An easy-to-
use RPG
Dragon system
Warriors published in
paperback
format
Drakar och
Demoner Swedish
(Dragons and fantasy RPG
Demons)
Dread RPG
Dread: The
First Book of Rafael Chandler
Pandemonium
Dream Craft
Dream Park:
The
Roleplaying
Game
A variant of
The Dresden
the FATE Urban fantasy Based on the books by Jim Butcher
files
game
Droids
Duendez (htt
p://psilan.net/ Oscar Iglesias 2015 Fairy tales Non violent zero-prep collaborative RPG
duendez/)
Dune:
Chronicles of Last Unicorn 2000 Supposedly limited to 3000 copies
the Imperium
Created by Dave
Arneson and E.
Gary Gygax,
Dungeons &
further editions by
Dragons
TSR, Inc. and
Wizards of the
Coast
Powered by
Dungeon Sage Kobold Dungeon
the
World Productions fantasy
Apocalypse
Durance
Dust Devils
Dying Earth Based on the stories of Jack Vance
Set in 17th
Dzikie Pola century Polish–
(Wild Fields) Lithuanian
Commonwealth

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Blacksburg
Tactical A generic RPG
EABA aka End All Be All
Research system
Center
Self- role-playing
Earth 2020 1983 by Stephen Kyffin
published game
Fantasy post-
apocalypse;
ambiguously a
1993-
Earthdawn FASA predecessor in
2015
the timeline of
the Shadowrun
setting.
Eclipse Posthuman
d100 2009 Sci-fi
Phase Studios
Eden: the
Deceit
El-Hazard
Role-Playing
Game
Eldritch Role-
Playing
System
Element
Masters
Elemental Crosstime
Axes Games
Based on the
works of
Elfquest Chaosium
Richard Pini
and Wendy Pini
Elfs

Elven Fire By George F. Rice[7]


Based on
Michael
Elric! Chaosium Moorcock's Elric
of Melniboné
stories
Set in M. A. R.
Empire of the
TSR, Inc Barker's world
Petal Throne
of Tékumel
Game
Designers' Duelists from
En Garde! Workshop 17th century
and SFC France
Press
Scapegoat
The End 1995 Banned from Gen Con by TSR
Games
21st Century
Enforcers 1987
Games
Engel
Enhanced:
Impact A superhero
Humans and
Engine RPG
Heroes
Swedish
Eon NeoGames
fantasy game
Epic Role Dark Matter
Playing Studios
ERA Clinica TBF
Erdor
E-RPG Ironwood
System Omnimedia

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The Pelgrane GUMSHOE 2006 Horror
Esoterrorists Press System
Espionage! Hero Games Based on Second Edition Champions
Free Universal
Eternal Tai-Gear
1985 Role-Playing
Soldier Simulations
system
Goodman
Etherscope
Games
Visionary
The
Entertainment
Everlasting
Studios Inc
Pencil & paper
EverQuest
White Wolf version of the
Role-Playing
Publishing popular
Game
MMORPG
Everway
Plug-and-Play
System with
Evolve
Inkwell multiple
Gaming
Gaming complexity tiers
System
for all skill
levels.
Extraordinary
EW-System Open game system
Worlds Studio
Scifi,
Ex Machina
Cyberpunk
Epic fantasy;
White Wolf potential pre-
Exalted
Publishing history of World
of Darkness
Exodus: Post Glutton
Apocalyptic Creeper
RPG Games
Ediciones
EXO Spanish
Sombra
Expendables
The A storytelling
Extraordinary RPG based on
Ediciones
Adventures the stories By James Wallis
Sombra
of Baron about Baron
Munchausen Munchausen

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Holistic
Fading Suns
Design
An interactive storytelling game of fairy folklore suitable for younger
Faery's Tale Firefly Games
players
Faith: the Burning Hard science
RPC54 2015
Sci-Fi RPG Games LTD fiction
Illusory
Faldon
Studios
Fanhunter Spanish game based on the series of comics of the same name
Fantasy
Crafty Games Mastercraft
Craft
Fantasy Includes Fantasy Earth: Basic Rules, Fantasy Earth: The Book of Magic,
Zody Games 1994
Earth and The Essential Fantasy Earth
Fantasy
Heartbreaker SubCellar
D20
Roleplaying Games
Game
Fantasy
Hero
Fantasy Shadowstar
An interactive storytelling game of historical fantasy
Imperium Games, Inc.
Steve
Jackson,
The Fantasy
published by The precursor to GURPS
Trip
Metagaming
Concepts
The Fantasy E-RPG
A Player's Guidebook for Ironwood Omnimedia
Sagas System
A project by dissatisfied British Dungeons & Dragons players, it was
Fantasy
considered incomplete and insufficient yet featured noteworthy elements
Wargaming
and qualities that are still yet unseen in most role-playing games
Fantasy
West
Adventures Adventures in a
Oscar Custom
(http://psilan. 2015 fantasy wild
Iglesias PbtA
net/fantasy- west setting
west-advent
ures/)
Farscape Alderac
Roleplaying Entertainment
Game Group
Twisted
Confessions
Generic
Fastlane Roulette 2004+ The first role-playing game designed around the roulette wheel.
(Alexander Dissipation
Cherry)
2001-
F.A.T.A.L. Byron Hall Custom Fantasy Adult-oriented role-playing. "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery"
2004
Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment based on the FUDGE
Fate
Fate Core Evil Hat
System
Generic engine. No longer an acronym.[8] There are other games that use the Fate
engine.
Runic
Game
System
(RGS) -
Fate of the Andrew
Previous Viking Historical/Fantasy
Norns Valkauskas
editions
used a
2D10 based
system
cyberpunk-
influenced game
Fates Worse Vajra
set in
than Death Enterprises
Manhattan in
2080
Fear Itself

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Feng Shui Hong Kong


martial arts
movies
Bully Pulpit
Fiasco Custom 2009 Various
Games
Field Guide
to
Encounters
Fifth Cycle
Fight the Evil
A role-playing game designed for people who haven't played before
Power
Fighting
Fantasy: The
Introductory Based on the Fighting Fantasy book series.
Role-Playing
Game
Fantasy
Fireborn
Flight Games
Margaret
2014- A separate game from Serenity due to licensing issues despite the same
Firefly Weis Cortex+ Firefly
2015 company producing both at different times.
Productions
A card-based role-playing game due for launch on Kickstarter in July 2017
HobbyHorse World of
Firelight 2017 and wide release in 2018. Attempts to simplify traditional RPG mechanics
Games, LLC 'Firelight'
in order to make the genre more accessible.
Flash
Gordon &
the Warriors
of Mongo
Flashing
Blades
Flor de Lyss
(http://psilan.
Tarot cards 2020 Dark Fantasy Adventure with its own setting and rules
net/flor-de-ly
ss/)
Forbidden
Kingdoms
Forgotten Marcus L
Futures Rowland
Freedom
Fighters
Post-Post-
Fragged Design
2015 Apocalyptic Sci-
Empire Ministries
Fi.
Friendly Undecided
Wars Studios
Tri Tac
Fringeworthy
Games
Tri Tac
FTL:2448
Games
Vulpinoid
FUBAR
Studio
Steffan
FUDGE FUDGE "Free, Universal, Do-it-Yourself Gaming Engine"
O'Sullivan
Furry
Outlaws
Furry Pirates
Fusion Høst og Søn Near Future A Danish RPG
Future
Worlds
Fuzion R. Talsorian Modified A simple and
Games and from R. customizable
Hero Games Talsorian's generic open
Interlock gaming system

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System and
Hero
Games'
Hero
System

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


A Game of A Game of
Thrones Thrones
Gamma Modified
TSR, Inc. Different versions are based on different versions of D&D
World D&D
1930s urban
Gangbusters TSR, Inc.
crime adventure
Empire
Ganghedge
Wargames
Gangster!
A tongue-in-
cheek science-
Gatecrasher
fiction & fantasy
setting
Based on the
Gaterunner
novel Gatecrash
Dilly Green Modernized version of classic Marvel FASERIP with well over 200
G-Core Bean G-Core Superhero Rules releases. Versions: G-Core, G-Core Deluxe, G-Core PRIME, and G-Core
Games X (Current). Launched in 2010 and still going.
Gear Antique
Gear Krieg
Geist: The New World of
White Wolf Storytelling
Sin-Eaters Darkness
Genesis -
Small-press former makers of the science fiction RPG Genesis. The First
The Role
Inkeptum version was produced in 1986 and sold only 200 copies mostly around
Playing 1986,
Ultra Visio Calgary. The Second version was mass-produced in 1990 and sold all
Game (http 1990, Future, 2193 ce
(https://thee 2000 copies. The Third unreleased version has sat on shelves / in boxes /
s://genesis.th 2021
ngine.com/) in a garage for the past 13 years. Version 3 has been remastered, and is
eengine.co
now being hosted at theengine.com
m/)
Ghost Dog:
The Way of
the Samurai
West End Ghostbusters film
Ghostbusters First RPG to use a dice pool system.
Games series
Based on the
Ghosts of Albion
animations and
Ghosts of Eden
novels by Amber
Albion Studios
Benson and
Christopher
Golden.
Godbound
Ghoulash:
The Last
Game on
Earth
Hawthorn
Godlike Hobgoblynn
Press
Golden Games
Heroes Workshop
Based on the
Gossip
Gossip Girl TV
Beverly Hills
series
The Great
d20 A Christian RPG
Commission
Jason
Grey Ranks
Morningstar
Grimm
StarChilde
Guardians
Publications
GUMSHOE

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System
Gunslingers The American
and Wild West of
Gamblers 1876
Wild West theme
Guns Of Guns of Santa Torina (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/297736/Guns
set in an alternate
Santa Torina -Of-Santa-Torina/)
historical timeline
Steve
GURPS Jackson GURPS Generic Gurps is an acronym for"Generic Universal Role Playing System"
Games

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Habitica (formerly HabitRPG)
Kenzer &
HackMaster based on the comic Knights of the Dinner Table
Company
Hakobune by Tim Peare
Neuwerld
Halcyon
Studios
Happy Birthday,
Robot!
HardNova II
Columbia
HârnMaster/Hârn
Games
the "Hugely Adaptable (action/anime) Role-Playing Engine", Free and
HARPE
quite adaptable
Haven: City of
Violence
an addendum
to the
Hawkmoon Stormbringer
RPG (aka
Elric!)
Hc Svnt Weapons Post-human
Dracones Grade Funk cyberpunk.
Heaven & Earth
Dream Pod
Heavy Gear
9
Hercules & Xena
Roleplaying
Game
Wasteland modern-day
Heretics
Games horror
Heresiarcas (htt Rebels
Oscar
p://psilan.net/her 2016 against the GM-less, dice-less, zero-prep RPG
Iglesias
esiarcas/) gods
Hero
Hero System
Games
HeroQuest/Hero
Wars
Heroes
Heroes of
Olympus
Palladium
Heroes Unlimited
Books
Hidden Kingdom
High Adventure
Cliffhangers
Buck Rogers
Adventure Game
High Adventure
Iron Crown
Role Playing
Enterprises
(HARP)
High Colonies
High Fantasy
Hillfolk
Hol
Exile 1930's style
Hollow Earth
Games pulp
Expedition
Studio adventure
Hollyworld

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Hong Kong
Action Theater
Houses of the
Blooded
How We Came
To Live Here
Hunter Planet
(original
Hunter: The
World of
Reckoning
Darkness)
Hunters Dark (htt (2015 built
ps://mattcintron. by endless
wixsite.com/hunt void
ersdark) studios)
New World
Hunter: The Vigil
of Darkness
Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft & Kale Co.
Wizardry
Reality
Hyborian War Simulations 1984 Hyborian Age Based on the world of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
Inc.

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Icar by Rob
a free science-fiction game
Lang
Imagine
Role
Playing
Immortal:
The Ran
Invisible Valerhon
War
Empire
Ironhedge
Wargames
In Dark Vajra
Alleys Enterprises
based on In
Nomine
In Nomine Satanis /
Magna
Veritas
satiric gang/spy
In Nomine wars involving
Satanis / angels and
Croc (Siroz) (French)
Magna demons in the
Veritas contemporary
world
Tri Tac
Incursion
Games
Infernum
Infinity
Inner City
Inner City
Games
Inou Tsukai
InSaNiTy
uses the in-
the role- Haphazard
house DPS
playing Projects
System
game
Even V.
Insight RPG
Røssland /
System
NEVR
Memento
InSpectres Mori
Theatricks
Sanguine
Ironclaw Productions
Ltd
Iron Privateer
Kingdoms Press
Iron
Gauntlets:
Heroic
Fantasy
Roleplaying
Ironhedge
Iron Heroes d20 system based on making D&D playable without magic

It Came
From The Stellar
Late, Late, Games
Late Show
It Was a
Mutual
Decision

J
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Sanguine
Jadeclaw Productions
Ltd
Jags
JailLords -
Are You a
Jail Lord or
a Jail Fish?
James
Bond 007:
Role- Victory
Playing in Games, a
1983
Her branch of
Majesty's Avalon Hill
Secret
Service
Jeremiah:
The
based on the TV series
Roleplaying
Game
John Carter,
Warlord of
Mars
Jorune (or
Skyrealms
of Jorune)
Jovian Dream Pod
Chronicles 9
Judge
Dredd: The
Games 1985-
Role-
Workshop 1989
Playing
Game
The Judge
Dredd Mongoose
d20 System 2002
Roleplaying Publishing
Game
The Judge
Dredd Mongoose
Traveller 2009
Roleplaying Publishing
Game
Hero
Justice, Inc. 1930s Pulp fiction oriented adventure
Games[9]
StarChilde Play as human/animal hybrids (Betas) that are owned by the Corporation;
Justifiers
Publications locate new resources, eliminate threats, and buy your freedom.

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KABAL
Daes Irae
Khymir (set in Mark E. Rogers fictional world for his Zorachus series of books)
Press
kill puppies
Lumpley
for satan
Games
(sic)
Steve
Killer Jackson (live action)
Games
Kindred of Storytelling Old World of
White Wolf (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade)
the East System Darkness
Kindred of
Storytelling Old World of
the Ebony White Wolf (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade)
System Darkness
Kingdom
Kingdom of Galileo
Nothing Games
Knights and
Magick
Knights of
the Round
Table
Kobolds Ate 9th Level
My Baby! Games
Krysztaly
MAG (Polish, Crystals of Time)
Czasu
Swedish game based on Gnostic concepts with some Kabbalistic
Kult
undertones

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Labyrinth
Lord
published
originally by
Lace and an Australian RPG set in a world of civilised Centaurs and Harpies with a
TAGG and re-
Steel musketeers/swashbuckling feel
released by
Pharos Press
Lamentations
of the Flame
Princess
Fantasy
Land of the Chivalry &
Games Samurai and Ninjas
Rising Sun Sorcery
Unlimited
Lands of
Adventure
The Laundry
Legacy
Legend of
the Five Alderac
Rings Role- Entertainment Asian-themed RPG
Playing Group
Game
Légendes
French
Celtiques
Légendes de
set in Ancient
la Vallée des French RPG
Egypt
rois
Legendy
fantasy RPG Skaven
Armandie
Legends and
Wintertree fantasy, based around plastic dice device
Loot
Legends of
Anglerre
standalone role-
playing game
Legionnaire FASA for the
Renegade
Legion universe
Lejendary Hekaforge
created by Gary Gygax
Adventure Productions
based on the
Cortex+
Leverage Leverage TV game written by Cam Banks and Rob Donahuge
System
series
an overtly
Instant
Lightspeed generic space by Christian Conkle
Fuzion
opera RPG
Little Fears -
The Role-
playing Key 20
Game of Publishing
Childhood
Terror
Live Free or
Die, the
Game of a post UN invasion RPG written by an Army officer and Iraq veteran
Suburban
Insurgency
futuristic game
Leading Edge
Living Steel on the world of
Games
Rhand
Mongoose a series of gamebooks and Lone Wolf: The Roleplaying Game; also a
Lone Wolf d20
Publishing second game by Mongoose, the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book
Lord of the Iron Crown 1991- based on the
Rings Enterprises 1999 fantasy works

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Adventure of J. R. R.
Game Tolkien
The Lord of based on the
the Rings 2002- fantasy works
Decipher, Inc.
Roleplaying 2006 of J. R. R.
Game Tolkien
Lords of
Avalon Hill
Creation

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Mach: The First
Colony
Macho Women Blacksburg Tactical
with Guns Research Center
Macross II: The
Role-Playing Palladium
Game
"Silly
modern
Malls and
indie publication role-playing by Orion Cooper
Morons
in the malls
of America"
Maelstrom Puffin Books
1993
White Wolf Publishing (1st,
2nd and revised editions)
1995 set in the
Mage: The Onyx Path Publishing Storytelling original
Ascension
(20th anniversary
System 2000 World of
Darkness
edition)
2015

set in the
Mage: The new World
White Wolf Publishing
Awakening of Darkness
2.0
Mage: The
Sorcerer's
Crusade
M.A.G.U.S. Hungarian
modern-day
alien
Maji Wasteland Games
conspiracy
game
Malefices French
RPG
drawing on
Man, Myth & 4000 B.C.
Yaquinto
Magic to 1000
A.D. Earth
legends
Manhunter
Marvel Heroic Margaret Weis Cortex+
Roleplaying Productions system
Marvel Super
Heroes TSR
Adventure Game
Marvel Super
Heroes Role- TSR, Inc.
Playing Game
Marvel Universe
Roleplaying Marvel Publishing Group
Game
Masterbook
The Masters of
the Universe
Role Playing
Game
Mashou Denki
La Valeur
Mecha a game
based on
Anime
Mecha

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science
fiction
Mechamorphosis Fantasy Flight Games
Mechanical
Dream
The Mechanoid
Palladium
Invasion
MechWarrior
Mega - les
parallel
Messagers French
universe
Galactiques
MEGA Role-
Playing System
Megaverse Palladium Books
members of
tiny
kingdom's
Meikyu kingdom Japanese
court
explore
dungeons
based on
Anime
Mekton R. Talsorian Games Mecha
science
fiction
Melanda: Land
of Mystery
Men In Black:
The Roleplaying
Game
A Modern Role Playing Game of Counter
MERC Fantasy Games Unlimited
Insurgency
Twilight
2000
updated for
Merc 2000
the post-
Cold War
'90s
Mercenaries,
Spies and Flying Buffalo
Private Eyes
The Metabarons
Roleplaying West End Games
Game
Metal Magic and
5th Epoch Publishing
Lore
Metamorphosis
1976
Alpha
Michtim: Fluffy
2012
Adventures
Cooperative
Microscope Lame Mage Productions 2011 world-
building
based on
the fantasy
Middle Earth
Iron Crown Enterprises works of J.
Role Play
R. R.
Tolkien
Midgard the oldest German fantasy RPG
A fantasy
world were
Midnight the bad
guys have
won
Midnight at the

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Well of Souls
Role-Playing
System
Crusades
Miles Christi and knights French
Templar
Chameleon Eclectic
Millennium's End
Entertainment
Mind Games
RPG
M.I.S.S.I.O.N. by Deiron e Yangsmoth
Mistborn
Adventure Game
The Modern Ironwood Omnimedia E-RPG
A Player's Guidebook
Sagas Company System
Mojo Polymancer Studios, Inc.
Monastyr Portal Polish, Monastery
a very
tongue in
The Monster
cheek basic by James Herbert Brennan
Horror Show
fantasy role
play system
Powered by
the a game about the messy lives of teenage
Monsterhearts
Apocalypse monsters by Joe Mcdaldno
system
Monsters!
Monsters!
Monsters and
Other Childish
Things
Mordheim Games Workshop
Morpheus
Post
apocalypse
The Morrow
Timeline Ltd USA 150
Project
years after
WW III.
Morton's List
The Mountain
Witch
a version of the Burning
Mouse Guard by Luke Crane
Wheel engine
Multiverser Valdron, Inc. by E.R. Jones and M. Joseph Young
original
Mummy: The
World of
Resurrection
Darkness
Peregrine Creative
Murphy's World
Services
Mutant Target Games
Mutant
Modiphius
Chronicles
Robin Laws
Mutant City
Pelgrane Press GUMSHOE superhero detectives
Blues
System
Mutant Future
Mutant RYMD
Mutant:
Undergångens by Järnringen Förlag AB
Arvtagare
Mutants & Green Ronin Publishing

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Masterminds
Mutazoids
My Life with
Half Meme Press
Master
MYFAROG -
Mythic Fantasy
by Varg Vikernes
Role-playing
Game
Myrskyn aika by Mike Pohjola
Mystic Realms
Mystic Quests
_The Role
Playing Game
Mythworld

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Nastrand (htt
Oscar Custom Earth after
p://psilan.net/ 2018
Iglesias FitD Ragnarök
nastrand/)
previously adventure
released between 13
The Nearside Greymalkin in 1996, alternate
Project Designs new Earths while
edition in avoiding
2011 insanity
Necroscope
Neighborhood
Neiyar: Land
of Heaven Bards and
and the Sages
Abyss
Krypteia a setting of
NeoKosmos Estúdio Greek in Portuguese
Criativo Mythology
modern
Nephilim Chaosium
occult
Neuroshima Portal Polish
Nexus: The
Infinite City
Nicotine Girls by Paul Czege
Nightbane
Stellar
Nightlife
Games
Night of the
Ninja
Night's Black
Agents
Nights of the Ætheric
Crusades Dreams
wizards in
Night Wizard! Japanese
contemporary
Steve
Ninja Burger Jackson
Games
martial arts
Ninjas and Palladium and
Superspies Books espionage
adventure
Nobilis by R. Sean Borgstrom
by Mischa L. Thomas
Archon
Noir Gaming,
Inc.
a
Dada/ergodic
Normality by Hugh Dingwall and Vishãla Jekic
role-playing
game
Noctum
Northern
Crown
Void Star Scifi,
Nova Praxis FATE 2013
Studios Cyberpunk
Firehawk
Novus
Games
Carnivore
Now Playing
Games

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Numenera Monte Cook
Games

O
Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes
Obsidian - SciFi, Post-
Apophis
The Age of 1999 apocalypse,
Consortium
Judgement Horror
Odysseus
The Official
Superhero
Adventure
Game
Redbox
Old Dragon the first old school RPG in Brazil
Editora
Omnigon
The One
Ring:
Adventures
over the
Edge of the
Wild
Only War
Ops and
Tactics
Ork! The
Roleplaying
Game
Orkworld
(original Wraith: The Oblivion spinoff. Stand-alone setting, divorced from the
White Wolf Contemporary,
Orpheus World of 2003 generic World of Darkness, with a finished metaplot, published across six
Publishing Horror
Darkness) books.
OSRIC
Fantasy
Other Suns Games
Unlimited
Outbreak: Hunters
Undead Books
Outime
Over the Atlas
Edge' Games
Rookie Jet
Over Arms
Studio

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Paladin
Palladium
Palladium
Fantasy Role-
Books
Playing Game
roleplaying in
MIB
Pandemonium! the world of
Productions
tabloid news
Pantheon
Path of the
Oracle role
playing game
Paper a series of illustrated roleplaying games with simple rules and a complex
Computer universe. Any gaming session played by anyone at any time is added to
Games the overall storyline and considered canon.
originally by
West End
a satire of
Games,
Paranoia dystopian
later by
futures
Mongoose
Publishing
Paizo fantasy role-
Pathfinder 2009
Publishing playing game
a detailed rules
heavy space
Technicraft
Pax Draconis opera with a
Design
percentile
system
Passion Play
Fading Suns live action role-playing game
Pendragon (or
Arthurian
King Arthur
legend
Pendragon)
A Penny for
My Thoughts
Phantasia
Phantasy
Conclave
Phase VII
Leading
Phoenix
Edge
Command
Games
Pirates!
Plüsch, Power
& Plunder
(German)
Pirates and
Plunder
Polaris (1997)
Polaris 2005
modern-day
Wasteland
Point Blank Action movie
Games
game
The
Cumberland
Pokéthulhu
Games and
Adventure
Diversions
Game
The Pool
PowerGame
Powers and
Avalon Hill
Perils

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Praedor based on the eponymous comics by Petri Hiltunen
America loses
the Cold War
The Price of West End and is
Freedom Games occupied, but
resistance is in
their blood
The Primal
Order
Prime Task Force
Directive Games
Primetime
Adventures
Prince Valiant:
The Story- Chaosium
Telling Game
Fantasy naval adventure
Privateers and
Games in the
Gentlemen
Unlimited Napoleonic era
Project A-ko:
The
Roleplaying
Game
Project: Eschaton
Paradigm Media Inc
Promethean: White Wolf new World
The Created Publishing of Darkness
Fantasy SF adventures
Psiworld Games with a focus on
Unlimited psi abilities
High Adventure
Pulp Planet Pulp
Gaming
Adventure Productions
cinematic style
Puppetland

Q
Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes
Q10
QAGS
Qin
Quest of the
Ancients
Quill: Quill:
A Letter-
Writing Trollish
A solo RPG, about Translated in 2016 in French by the editorial house 500NDG and in 2018
Roleplaying Delver 2016
writing letters. in Portuguese by a fan.
Game for a Games
Single
Player

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Rangers of
by Sean-Robert Shaw
Taradoin
Raex: The T. Julian Bell
roleplaying & Raex
adventure games
experience publishing
Rapture: The
Second by William Spencer-Hale, Quintessential Mercy
Coming
The Realm of
Yolmi
Palladium
Recon Vietnam War adventure
Books
Red Dragon Japanese
Red Dwarf: based on BBC
The Role deep 7 comedy Red
Playing Game Dwarf
Creative fight Nazis in
Reich Star 1991 by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson
Encounters space
Reign 2007 by Greg Stolze
Rêve: the
Dream by Denis Gerfaud (French, Rêve de Dragon)
Ouroboros
The Riddle of Driftwood
Steel Publishing
Palladium crossover
Rifts
Games system
Rifts Chaos Palladium
Earth Games
Ringworld Chaosium
Risus
Robot
Warriors
based on the
Robotech
Palladium
Robotech anime
Games
television
series
Robotech:
The Shadow
Palladium
Chronicles
Games
Role-Playing
Game

Rogue Trader FFG[10]


fully
RMSS
expandable
(Rolemaster Iron Crown
and
Fantasy Role Enterprises
customizable
Playing)
rules system
Post
Paradigm apocalyptic
Rotted Capes
Concepts super hero
zombies
generic
customizable
live action rules
Rules to Live Interactivities
system, with
By Ink
expansions for
horror and
fantasy
Rune
Rune Striders

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Runebearer "Magic and by Chris Magoun
religion clash in
a ruined world"
Chaosium,
versions also
by Avalon
RuneQuest[11]
Hill and
Mongoose
Publishing
RuneSlayers
"Natural
fantasy for
Kotodama stories of
Ryuutama Heavy 2015 travel, by Atsuhiro Okada
Industries exploration,
and
adventure."

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Saga fantasy Swedish
SAGA System
Sanctum Polis - Rest
Eternal Memory (http:// indie
www.sanctumpolis.co anthropomorphic
m:)
Sandman: Map of
Halaal
Satasupe (Japanese)
Savage Worlds
Ironwood
E-RPG
The Sci-Fi Sagas Omnimedia A Player's Guidebook
System
Company
Modern day
White Wolf
Scion: Hero children of the
Publishing
gods
Sea Dracula (The role- Nick Smith
playing game of and Jake
lawyers in animal city) Richmond
Second Dawn
Historical
Gold Rush
Sengoku fantasy set in
Games
feudal Japan
SenZar notorious for its blatant encouragement of munchkinism
Powered by
El Séquito (http://psila Spanish Golden
the 2015
n.net/el-sequito/) Age scifi
Apocalypse
Margaret
(The Firefly (television series) is getting its own RPG also from
Serenity Weis 2005-2009 Serenity film
MWP due to licensing).
Productions
Alderac
Seventh Sea Entertainment
Company
The Shab-al-Hiri
Roach
Alderac
Shadowforce Archer Entertainment a setting for Spycraft
Group
Shadow Lords about epic Heroes, Immortals, Titans, Angels and Demons.
Obsidian Horror, Scifi,
Shadow Nations
Europe Fantasy
Shadow of the Demon Schwalb Fantasy, Dark
2015
Lord Entertainment fantasy, Horror
The Shadow of
Yesterday
cyberpunk
Shadowrun
fantasy
Shatterzone
Shock: Social Science
Fiction
Guardians of
Silver Age Sentinels
Order
Simian Conquest
a simple and customizable generic open gaming system similar
Simply Roleplaying! Microtactix
to Fuzion and the Action! System
Dashing
Simple System Inventor
Games
Sine Requie horror Italian role-playing game

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Skulduggery
Skull and Crossbones: Fantasy
Roleplay on the Games
Spanish Main Unlimited
SkyRealms
Skyrealms of Jorune Publishing,
later Chessex
Nightfall
SLA Industries
Games[12]
Sláine: The
Mongoose
Roleplaying Game of
Publishing
Celtic Heroes
S/lay w/Me
The Slayers d20 d20 System
Margaret based on the
Cortex
Smallville Weis Smallville
Classic
Productions television series
Sojourner's Quest: A
Randall C
Fantasy Role Playing
Ellis
Game
A Song of Ice and Fire
Roleplaying
Sorcerer Ron Edwards
Sovereign Stone
Victorian Era
Space 1889 GDW Sci-Fi
(steampunk)
Redbox
Space Dragon pulp sci fi
Editora
German
crossover
between military
Space Gothic
science fiction,
space opera and
horror
Space Infantry
Fantasy
Space Opera Games
Unlimited
SF adaptation
Spacemaster
of Rolemaster
a tongue-in-
SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis Crucible
cheek anime
XDO Design
game
Space Quest
Green Ronin
Spaceship Zero
Publishing
SpaceTime
The Spawn of Fashan
Sphinx is a historical/fantasy system set in ancient Egypt. The
rules cover character professions (over 50), individual and
Sphinx mass combat, magic, reincarnation, dreaming, insanity, and
dealing with the gods. Sphinx was published by Seventh
Scarab in 1984 as a 100-page book.[13]
Spione: Story Now in
Cold War Berlin
Evil Hat FATE
Spirit of the Century a pulp game
Productions system
Splicers
Uhrwerk-
Splittermond Lorakis German Fantasy RPG
Verlag

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Spycraft Alderac espionage
Entertainment adventure
Group
Day Dreamer
The Squared Circle
Interactive
intelligent
Game Arts archosaurs in
Squawk
Guild 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 Paizo
d20 System
Game Publishing
Starfleet Voyages
Star Frontiers TSR
Spycraft/d20 2003-
Stargate SG-1 AEG
System 2004
Empire
Starhedge
Wargames
SF
adaptation
Star Hero Fantasy Hero
of Hero
System
Star Legend (Japanese)
Star Patrol
parody of space
Star Riders Ianus Games
opera
Star Rovers
StarRun QaEG
Starship Troopers Mongoose
(RPG) Publishing
Starships & Spacemen
Star Trek: Adventure
Gaming in the Final Heritage 1978
Frontier
Star Trek: Deep Space
1999-
Nine Role Playing Last Unicorn
2000
Game
Star Trek Role Playing
Last Unicorn 1999
Game
Star Trek Roleplaying 2002-
Decipher
Game 2005
Star Trek: The Next
1998-
Generation Role- Last Unicorn
1999
playing Game
Star Trek: The Role 1983-
FASA
Playing Game 1988
Star Wars: The West End 1987-
D6 System
Roleplaying Game Games 1999
Star Wars Roleplaying Fantasy
2012-
Game Flight
Star Wars Roleplaying Wizards of 2000-
D20 System
Game the Coast 2010

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Star Wreck Mike Pohjola parody game
Roleplaying Game based on the
Star Wreck
movie franchise
Perilous
Steampunk,
SteamCraft Journeys
Neo-Victorian
Publishing
Steve Perrin's Quest
Rules
Wasteland modern-day
STOCS
Games generic system
based on
Michael
Stormbringer Chaosium Moorcock's Elric
of Melniboné
stories
Storytelling System
Pirate/West
St. Palmer's
Indies
Monte Cook Cypher
The Strange
Games System
Street Fighter: The
Storytelling Game
Legionnaire Over-the-top
Strike Legion
Games science fiction
Mongoose
Strontium Dog Traveller 2009
Publishing
Sundered Epoch: Randal multi-genre
Generations Snyder game system
modern-day
Super Crusaders Lee Walser super hero
system
Super
Super Powers Powers
Unlimited Unlimited,
LLC
Super-Hero
Super Squadron Australian
game
Supergame
Superhero 2044
based on The
Margaret
Cortex 2009- CW's
Supernatural Weis
Classic 2010 Supernatural
Productions
television series.
Supervillains
Superworld Chaosium
Swashbucklers of the 7
Skies
Heritage
Games and
Swordbearer Fantasy
Games
Unlimited
Mythmere
Swords & Wizardry A free 'clone' of the original version of Dungeons & Dragons.
Games
Sword World RPG (Japanese)
Synnibarr (aka The Craig Notorious for a nonsensical, poorly explained game-world and
World Of Synnibarr) McCracken huge power-levels granted to beginning player characters.
Palladium
Systems Failure
Books

T
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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Tagmar fantasy game Brazilian
Tales from
the Floating Avalon Hill
Vagabond
Bard
Talislanta
Games
Taste My
Steel!
Dream
2011,
Technoir Machine Scifi, Cyberpunk By Jeremy Keller
2019
Productions
Teenage
based on the
Mutant Ninja
Palladium Teenage Mutant
Turtles and
Books Ninja Turtles
Other
comic books
Strangeness
Teenagers
from Outer anime based RPG
Space
Tékumel:
Empire of
the Petal
Throne
a free "universal"
Ten
system distributed
Thousand
under a Creative
Worlds
Commons license
Tenchi
Muyo!
Tenra War Japanese
Tephra: The
Steampunk
RPG
TerraDrive
Terra
Incognita
Terra Eden
Primate Studios, Inc.
western and
Terra the steampunk, use
Japanese
Gunslinger playing cards
instead of dice
Testament
Late game set during
(role-playing
Gaming the End Times
game)
Backstage
Theatrix 1993
Press
Thieves'
Guild
Thieves'
World
Tibet: The
Vajra historical fantasy
Roleplaying
Enterprises set in Tibet
Game
Time &
Time Again
Timehunter Red Axe
Time Lord a Doctor Who
— RPG based on the
Adventures 1963–89 run of
through the BBC television
Time and series
Space

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Blacksburg
Tactical
Timelords
Research
Center
Pacesetter
Ltd;
Timemaster 1984; 2011
Goblinoid
Games
Timeship Yaquinto
To
Challenge
Tomorrow
Tokyo
cyberpunk Japanese
NOVA
cartoon adventure
inspired by the
Steve
classic cartoon
Toon Jackson
series from
Games
Warner Brothers
and MGM
espionage
Top Secret TSR, Inc.
adventure
West End
TORG
Games
by Steve N.
Total
Shrapnel Jackson - Smart
Eclipse
Games phone optimized
RPG
role playing game
Trail of Pelgrane
Cthulhu Press
Steve
Transhuman
Jackson
Space
Games
contemporary
Chroniques
police and
Trauma d'Outre- French
counter-terrorism
Monde
adventures
by Marc Miller,
Frank Chadwick,
Traveller GDW John Harshman,
and Loren K.
Wiseman.
Traveller:
2300
Trevas Brazilian game about other worlds
Tri-Stat dX
Dream Pod
Tribe 8
9
Steve
Tribes Jackson
Games
Thrilling Pulp Amazing
Tales Stories
White Wolf
Trinity
Publishing
Trollbabe
True20
Truth &
Justice
Tab
Trystell
Creations
Tunnels and Flying

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Trolls Buffalo
TWERPS Lou Zocchi
Twilight
GDW 1984
2000
Twilight
Imperium:
The Role-
Playing
Game

U
Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes
Uncharted
by Sean Gomes
Worlds
Mayfair
Underground
Games
Urban
fantasy set
' in modern
day New
York
The Carnivore
Unexplained Games
Unhallowed
Eos Press
Metropolis
Eden
Unisystem
Studios, Inc.
Universalis
Universe SPI subtitle The Role-Playing Game of the Future
Unknown
Armies
URPG a free and universal RPG Rules System
Usagi
based on the comic book series, Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai
Yojimbo
USS Infinity a new and different RPG
Uuhraah!

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Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes


Valley of the
Palladium Books
Pharaohs
Vampire:
The Dark White Wolf Publishing
Ages
White Wolf Publishing (1st,
2nd and revised editions) 1991

Onyx Path Publishing 1992


Vampire: (20th anniversary
Storytelling 1998 World of
The edition)
System Darkness
Masquerade
2011
Modiphius
Entertainment(5th 2018
edition)

Vampire: (new World


The of
Requiem Darkness)
Vanishing
Point (role- Sane Studios
play game)
Victorian
SKS Distribution
Adventure
Victorian
Age: White Wolf
Vampire
Victoriana -
Cubicle 7 Entertainment
2nd edition
Victorian Epic Dice Gothic
Arcanus Press 2020 A dark world of the penny dreadful.
Gothic System Horror
Villains and Fantasy Games Unlimited,
Vigilantes Monkey House Games
Violence Hogshead Publishing
Second
VixeM,
line
Villanos por
villains
el Mundo (ht Oscar Iglesias 2014
trying to
tp://psilan.n
save the
et/vixem/)
world

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Warcraft the
White Wolf
Roleplaying roleplaying game book based on the popular computer game by Blizzard
Publishing
Game
Warhammer
Games
40,000
Workshop
Roleplay
Warhammer Games
Fantasy
Workshop[14]
Roleplay
Warheads:
Urban
Medieval a comically based tabletop roleplaying war game
Mammoth
Tales
WARS
Mongoose
Roleplaying
Publishing
Game
Manticore
Waste
Productions
World
Ltd
Ye Olde
Wayfarers Gaming
Companye
Weapons of
Eos Press a wuxia-style game based on the manhua comic of the same name
the Gods
Pinnacle
Weird Wars Entertainment
Group
Werewolf: original
The World of
Apocalypse Darkness
Werewolf: World of
The Darkness
Forsaken 2.0
Werewolf:
The Wild
West by
White Wolf
Empire
Westhedge
Wargames
What Price
Glory?!
based on The
The Wheel
Wheel of Time
of Time
TSR, Inc. d20 System novel series by
Roleplaying
author Robert
Game
Jordan
When
Worlds
Collide
The
Whispering an RPG about god-hunting
Vault
Wiedźmin MAG Polish
Arc Dream
Wild Talents
Publishing
Wild West
Eden Studios,
Witchcraft
Inc.
Witch Hunt
Witch
Hunter: The
Invisible
World
With Great

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Power...
Wizards'
Realm
Wizards'
World
Woof meow
Game
(role-playing 1988
Systems
game)
World
Action And
Adventure
World of
Darkness
(original)
White Wolf
and the product line
Publishing
World of
Darkness
(new) "2.0"
The World
West End
of Indiana
Games
Jones
The World
Fantasy RPG
of Kystrel
World of WonderWorld
Synnibarr Press
roleplaying in a high-magic, highly civilized world populated by many
World Tree
sentient species, none of them human
Worlds
Beyond
Worlds of
Chaosium
Wonder
Wraith: The
Great War
original
Wraith: The
World of
Oblivion
Darkness
Wushu Dan Bayn released under the Creative Commons license.
WWE:
Know Your
Role
Wyrd is Key 20
Bond Publishing

X
Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes
Xcrawl

Y
Game Publisher System Dates Setting Notes
Dark Juju written by Zach Owens and Jeremy Sanecki. This is a strategic role-
Y-Modus
Games playing game.
Year of the
Phoenix
Year of the UKGames
D20 Modern
Zombie Publishing
Ysgarth written by Timothy Willard

Z
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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
Grim &
(Written by Daniel Fox. Deliberately similar in tone and rules mechanics to
Zweihänder Perilous
Warhammer FRP)
Studios

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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2. "d20 Modern website" (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20modern/). Retrieved 6 February 2012.
3. "d20 Past website" (http://community.wizards.com/modern_d20/wiki/D20_Past/). Retrieved 6 February 2012.
4. "d20 System website" (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/welcome/). Retrieved 6 February 2012.
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schwarze-auge). Ulisses Spiele. 2012. Archived from the original (http://www.ulisses-spiele.de/sortiment/rollenspiele/das-sch
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9. "Justice, Inc" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120207144635/http://www.herogames.com/home.htm). Archived from the
original (http://www.herogames.com/home.htm/) on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
10. "Rogue Traders website" (http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=78/). Retrieved 6 February 2012.
11. Maranci, Peter. "The History of RuneQuest" (https://web.archive.org/web/20011109053652/http://www.maranci.net/rqpast.ht
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External links
A longer list can be found at http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/

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