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.
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13th Age | Pelgrane Press | Modified d20 OGL ("The Archmage Engine") | 2013 | High fantasy | Designed by Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo | ||||||
2300 AD | Game Designers' Workshop | 1989 | Hard science fiction future of the Twilight 2000 universe | Designed by Frank Chadwick, Timothy B. Brown, Lester W. Smith, Marc W. Miller, originally called Traveller 2300AD | |||||||
3D&T | Editora Talismã (formerly Trama Editorial) | 1994 | A Brazilian generic system, turned to anime-style campaigns | ||||||||
7th Sea | Alderac Entertainment Group / John Wick Presents | Roll-and-Keep system, d20 System | 1999, 2016 | Pirates, swashbuckling | Designed by John Wick (game designer) | ||||||
Aberrant | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 1999 | Superhero characters in the near future | Part of the Trinity series | ||||||
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Active Exploits | Precis Intermedia Gaming | 2002 | |||||||||
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons | TSR, Inc. | 1977-2000 | (See also Dungeons & Dragons) | ||||||||
Advanced Fighting Fantasy | Cubicle 7 | 1989 | Based on the Fighting Fantasy and Sorcery! gamebooks | ||||||||
Adventure! | Tori Bergquist | 1985 | |||||||||
Adventure! | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 2001 | Pulp adventure | Part of the Trinity series | ||||||
Adventurers Guild | Adventurers Guild | 1987 | Line of "generic fantasy" supplements | Consists of The Adventurers' Guild Bestiary, Adventurers' Guild Bounty Hunters' Handbook, Adventurers' Guild Sage's Tome, The Adventurers' Guild Tome | |||||||
Adventures in Fantasy | Excalibre Games | 1979 | |||||||||
The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game | TSR, Inc. | 1984 | |||||||||
Adventures in Middle-earth | d20 | 2016 | Epic high fantasy | Designed by Dominic McDowall-Thomas et al., based on The One Ring RPG | |||||||
After The Bomb | Palladium Books | 1986, 2001 | Post-apocalyptic science fiction | ||||||||
Aftermath! | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1981 | Post-apocalypse | Designed by Paul Hume and Robert N. Charrette | |||||||
Age of the Tempest | Tactic | 2013 | |||||||||
Age of Ruin | Cutting Edge Games | 1990 | |||||||||
Agone (French) | Multisim Editions | 1999 | Edited in French by Multisim Editions and translated in English by Multisim Editions | ||||||||
Albedo | Thoughts & Images, Chessex | 1988, 1993 | Furry, science fiction | Designed by Craig Hilton and Paul Kidd, based on the comic book series Erma Felna by Steve Gallacci | |||||||
Alice is Missing | Hunters Entertainment | 2020 | Designed by Spenser Starke | ||||||||
Free League | 2019 | Science fiction, survival horror | |||||||||
Aliens Adventure Game | Leading Edge Games | 1990 | Science Fiction | ||||||||
All Flesh Must Be Eaten | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 1999, 2003 | Zombie survival horror game | Designed by George Vasilakos | ||||||
All-Star Wrestling | Afterthought Images | 1991 | |||||||||
Alma Mater | Oracle Games | 1982 | Comic high school | ||||||||
Alshard (Japanese) | Far East Amusement Research / Enterbrain | Standard RPG System | 2002, 2005 | Fantasy with mecha like Final Fantasy | Far East Amusement Research / Enterbrain | ||||||
Alshard Gaia (Japanese) | Standard RPG System | 2006 | Contemporary fantasy | ||||||||
Alternity | TSR, Inc. | 1998 | Science fiction | Designed by Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker | |||||||
Amazing Engine | TSR, Inc. | 1993 | |||||||||
Amber Diceless Roleplaying | Phage Press | Custom diceless | 1991 | Based on The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny | Created and written by Erick Wujcik | ||||||
Edge Entertainment | 2005, 2010 | Spanish RPG, a collaboration of Eastern and Western developers RPG with anime-style artworks | |||||||||
Angel | Eden Studios, Inc. | Cinematic Unisystem | 2003 | Urban fantasy | A spin-off of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game | ||||||
Apocalypse Keys | Evil Hat Productions | PbtA | 2023 | ||||||||
Apocalypse World | Lumpley Games | PbtA | 2010 | A post-apocalyptic RPG of politics and survival | Created by D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker. First RPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) system | ||||||
Arcana Unearthed | Malhavoc Press | d20 OGL | 2003 | Fantasy | Developed by Monte Cook | ||||||
Archaeron | Archaeron Games | 1980 | |||||||||
Arduin | Grimoire Games, Emperors Choice Games | 1977-1980, 1992 | The first cross-genre RPG | Designed by David A. Hargrave | |||||||
Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth | Last Unicorn Games | 1994 | |||||||||
Arianrhod RPG (Japanese) | Fujimi Shobo | 2004 | Japanese MMORPG-like | ||||||||
Mongoose Publishing | 2003 | ||||||||||
Myrmidon Press (first edition); Eden Studios, Inc. (second edition) | d20 OGL | 2003 | Mek-based warfare | ||||||||
R. Talsorian Games | Fuzion | 1997 | SciFi game based on the Armored Trooper Votoms anime | ||||||||
Army of Darkness Roleplaying Game | Eden Studios, Inc. | Cinematic Unisystem | 2005 | Zombie horror | Designed by Shane Lacy Hensley, based on the film of the same name. | ||||||
Ars Magica | Lion Rampant (editions 1 & 2) | 1987,1989,1992, 1996, 2004 | Medieval fantasy | Originally developed by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, who originated the term "troupe-style play" for it.[1] | |||||||
White Wolf Publishing (edition 3) | |||||||||||
Atlas Games (editions 4 & 5) | |||||||||||
Modified Fuzion system | 2005 | Written and illustrated by Mark Smylie, based on his comic book series of the same name. | |||||||||
Ashen Stars | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2011 | Gritty investigative Space Opera | Designed by Robin D. Laws | ||||||
Atlantis | Bard Games | 1984,1985,1996,2014,2019 | Historical fantasy, sword and sorcery | Designed by Stephan Michael Sechi, Vernie Taylor, Steven Cordovano, J. Andrew Keith | |||||||
Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game | Evil Hat Productions | Fate system | 2014 | Sci-fi pulp | Based on the comic book of the same name. | ||||||
Attack of the Humans | Rapport Games | 1990 | |||||||||
The Authority Role-Playing Game | Guardians of Order | 2004 | |||||||||
Avatar Legends: the Roleplaying Game | Magpie Games | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2022 | ||||||||
Babylon 5 | Mongoose Publishing | d20 (2nd ed.) | 2003, 2006 (2nd ed.) | Based on the Babylon 5 TV franchise | |||||||
BASH! | Basic Action Games | 2005 | |||||||||
Barony | Better Games | 1990 | |||||||||
Basic Fantasy RPG | Chris Gonnerman | 2006 | One of the first Old School Revival retro-clones | ||||||||
Basic Role-Playing | Chaosium | 1980,1982,2002,2004,2008 | Generic role-playing game system designed by Greg Stafford and Lynn Willis | ||||||||
Batman Role-Playing Game | Mayfair Games | 1989 | |||||||||
BattleDragons | Spartacus Publishing | 2002 | Play as dragons in a fantasy world | ||||||||
Battlelords of the 23rd Century | SSDC, Inc. | 1990,1991,1992,1993,2000,2019 | |||||||||
Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex System | 2007 | Based on the SciFi TV series | |||||||
Behind Enemy Lines | FASA | 1982 | The first tabletop RPG set during World War II | ||||||||
Beyond the Supernatural | Palladium Books | 1987,2005 | Modern Day Horrors | ||||||||
Bifrost | Skytrex Ltd. | 1982 | |||||||||
Big Bang Comics RPG | Pisces All Media | 2006 | |||||||||
Big Eyes, Small Mouth | Guardians of Order | 1997,2001,2007,2020 | Anime-based RPG | ||||||||
Black Crusade | Fantasy Flight Games | Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay | 2011 | ||||||||
Blade of Arcana | Enterbrain, Game Field | 1999,2001,2006 | High fantasy | Japanese-language RPG | |||||||
Blades in the Dark | Evil Hat Productions | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2017 | Urban fantasy | |||||||
Blood Dawn | SSDC, Inc. | 1996 | |||||||||
Blood of Heroes | Pulsar Games | 1998,2000 | |||||||||
Blue Planet | Biohazard Games | 1997,2000,2012 | 2nd Edition by Fantasy Flight Proposed 3rd Edition by Biohazard Games | ||||||||
Blue Rose | Green Ronin | 2005,2017 | |||||||||
Bluebeard's Bride | Magpie Games | PbtA | 2017 | Gothic horror based on the Bluebeard folktale | Designed by Whitney "Strix" Beltrán, Marissa Kelly, and Sarah Richardson | ||||||
Boot Hill | TSR, Inc. | 1975 | Wild West adventure | ||||||||
Brave New World | Pinnacle Entertainment, Alderac Entertainment Group | 1999 | |||||||||
Breaking the Ice | Black & Green Games | 2005 | |||||||||
Brindlewood Bay | Gauntlet Publishing | 2022 | Murder mystery about elderly women amateur detectives | Inspired by Murder, She Wrote and H. P. Lovecraft | |||||||
Bubblegum Crisis | R. Talsorian Games | Fuzion | 1996 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||||||
Buccaneer | Adversary Games | 1979 | Pirate-themed RPG | ||||||||
Buck Rogers XXVC | TSR, Inc. | 1990-1992 | |||||||||
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 2002 | Designed by C. J. Carella, based on the TV show of the same name | |||||||
Bullwinkle and Rocky Role-Playing Party Game | 1988 | ||||||||||
Bunnies and Burrows | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1976 | Player characters are rabbits | The first game to encourage players to have non-humanoid roles, and the first to have detailed martial arts and skill systems. | |||||||
Tri Tac Games | 1992 | ||||||||||
Burn Bryte | Roll20 | 2020 | Science fantasy | Design tailored to be played on a virtual tabletop platform | |||||||
Burning Empires | 2006 | ||||||||||
The Burning Wheel | 2002 | High fantasy | |||||||||
Bushido | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1979,1980,1981 | Samurai RPG set in Feudal Japan | ||||||||
By the Gods | Ragnarok Enterprises | 1986 | |||||||||
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | Game Designer's Workshop | 1990 | Designed by Frank Chadwick, based on the comic Xenozoic Tales | ||||||||
Cadwallon | Rackham | 2006 | |||||||||
Call of Cthulhu | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1981 | Designed by Sandy Petersen, based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft | |||||||
Capes | Muse of Fire Games | 2005 | |||||||||
Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul | Spectrum Games | 2010 | |||||||||
Cartoon Action Hour | Spectrum Games | 2002 | |||||||||
Car Wars | Steve Jackson Games | 1980 | |||||||||
Cassiopean Empire | Norton Games | 1982 | |||||||||
Castles & Crusades | Troll Lord Games | OGL System | 2004 | Fantasy RPG | |||||||
Castle Falkenstein | R. Talsorian Games | 1994 | Steampunk fantasy | ||||||||
The Castle Perilous | West Wind Simulations | 1980 | |||||||||
Challengers | Ragnarok Enterprises | 1985 | |||||||||
Champions | Hero Games | Hero System | 1981 | ||||||||
White Wolf (1st and 2nd editions) Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) | Storyteller System | 1995 1997 2017 | Original World of Darkness | ||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storytelling System | 2007 | New World of Darkness | ||||||||
Children of the Sun | Misguided Games | Token System | 2002 | Dieselpunk fantasy | |||||||
Chill | Pacesetter Ltd
| 1984 | Horror | ||||||||
Chivalry & Sorcery | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1977 | |||||||||
Chronicles of Ramlar | Whitesilver Publishing | The A/B System | 2006 | ||||||||
City of Mist | Son of Oak Game Studio, Modiphius Entertainment | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2017 | Urban fantasy, neo-noir | A noir (detective) RPG set in a modern-day city where once-ordinary people hold the power of ancient myths and legends | ||||||
Commando | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1979 | |||||||||
Conan Role-Playing Game | TSR | "ZeFRS" (Zeb's Fantasy Roleplaying System) | 1985 | Hyborian Age | The official TSR Conan role-playing game, finally published in 1985 | ||||||
Modiphius Entertainment | 2d20 system | 2017 | Hyborian Age | ||||||||
GURPS Conan | Steve Jackson Games | GURPS | 1989 | Hyborian Age | A year before the release of the core rulebook, in 1988, Steve Jackson Games published a solo adventure titled GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River | ||||||
Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2004-2010 | Hyborian Age | One of the role-playing games in the Mongoose Publishing OGL System series | |||||||
The Confederate Rangers | SoLar-Way Games | 1989 | |||||||||
Conspiracy X | Eden Studios, Inc. | 1996 | Extraterrestrials, UFOs, and government coverups | ||||||||
Continuum | Aetherco; Dreamcatcher | 1999 | Time travel adventure | ||||||||
Core Command | Dream Pod 9 | Silhouette game engine | 2003 | Science fiction, space opera | |||||||
Corporation the Roleplaying Game | Core Games Publishing | Brutal Engine | 2006 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||||||
CORPS | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | 1990 | |||||||||
Creeks and Crawdads | Crustacium Games | 1986 | |||||||||
Crime Fighter | Task Force Games | 1988 | |||||||||
Crimefighters | 1981 | ||||||||||
Crystalicum (Polish) | 2006 | ||||||||||
CthulhuTech | Wildfire | Framewerk | 2007 | Horror in the style of H.P. Lovecraft but with mecha and anime influences | |||||||
StormWorld Games | d20; D12 | 1988 | |||||||||
Cybergeneration | R. Talsorian Games | 1993 | Alternate setting for Cyberpunk 2020 | ||||||||
Cyberpunk 2013 | R. Talsorian Games | 1988 | An alternate cyberpunk version of the USA, specifically in 2013 | Out of print and superseded by Cyberpunk 2020 | |||||||
Cyberpunk 2020 | R. Talsorian Games | 1990 | An alternate cyberpunk version of the USA, specifically in 2020 | ||||||||
Cyberpunk RED | R. Talsorian Games | 2020 | A sequel to Cyberpunk 2020 and prequel to Cyberpunk 2077 | ||||||||
Cyberspace | Iron Crown Enterprises | Spacemaster system | 1989 | ||||||||
Cyborg Commando | New Infinities, Inc. | 1987 | |||||||||
D6 Adventure | West End Games | 2004 | |||||||||
D6 Fantasy | West End Games | 2004 | |||||||||
D6 Space | West End Games | 2004 | |||||||||
D6 System | West End Games | In-house system, based on the Star Wars RPG | 1996 | ||||||||
d20 Future | Wizards of the Coast[2] | d20 System | 2004 | Generic futuristic | |||||||
d20 Modern | Wizards of the Coast[3] | d20 System | 2002 | Generic modern | |||||||
d20 Past | Wizards of the Coast[4] | d20 System | 2005 | Generic historical | |||||||
d20 System | Wizards of the Coast[5] | Based on Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules | 2000 | ||||||||
Dallas | Simulations Publications, Inc. | 1980 | Based on the popular television soap opera Dallas. | ||||||||
Danger International | Hero Games | 1985 | Espionage adventure | ||||||||
Dangerous Journeys | Game Designers' Workshop | 1992 | Fantasy | Designed by E. Gary Gygax, eventually discontinued because of lawsuits by TSR [6] | |||||||
Daredevils | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1982 | Pulp-era mystery | ||||||||
Dark Ages | White Wolf Publishing | 1996,2002,2003 | Series of RPGs, including , , , , and | ||||||||
Dark Champions | Hero Games | Hero System | 1993,2004 | Designed by Steven S. Long | |||||||
Dark Conspiracy | Game Designers' Workshop | 1991 | Cyberpunk, near-future dystopia, horror, urban fantasy | Designed by Lester W. Smith | |||||||
Dark Dungeons | 2010 | Retroclone | |||||||||
The Dark Eye | Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH and Droemer Knaur Verlag, Fantasy Productions, Ulisses Spiele GmbH | 1984,1988,1993,2001,2006,2015 | High fantasy | Created by Ulrich Kiesow, the most popular German RPG,[7] known in Germany as Das Schwarze Auge | |||||||
Dark Heresy, the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay Game | Originally by Black Industries, now developed by Fantasy Flight Games | 2008 | |||||||||
Dark Streets | Cakebread & Walton | 2012 | |||||||||
Darwin's World | RPGObjects | 2001,2003,2005 | Post-apocalyptic RPG | ||||||||
Dawning Star | d20 System | 2005 | |||||||||
DC Adventures | Green Ronin | Mutants & Masterminds | 2010 | ||||||||
DC Heroes | Mayfair Games | Mayfair Exponential Game System | 1985,1989,1993 | ||||||||
DC Universe Roleplaying Game | West End Games | D6 System | 1999 | ||||||||
De Profundis | Michał Oracz | 2001 | |||||||||
Dead Inside | Atomic Sock Monkey Press | PDQ | 2003 | A small-press RPG where the characters attempt to rebuild their lost souls through selfless and noble actions (and get superhuman powers along the way) | |||||||
Dead Reign | Palladium Books | Megaversal | 2008 | ||||||||
Pinnacle Entertainment Group | 1998 | ||||||||||
Pinnacle Entertainment Group | 2002 | ||||||||||
Deadlands The Weird West | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | 1996,1999,2006 | GURPS version by SJGames | ||||||||
Deathwatch | Fantasy Flight | Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay | 2010 | ||||||||
Deliria: Faerie Tales for the New Millennium by Phil Brucato | Laughing Pan Productions | 2003 | |||||||||
Task Force Games | 1986 | Modern military, espionage | Designed by William H. Keith Jr. | ||||||||
Delta Green | Arc Dream Publishing | Call of Cthulhu, d100 "Misery Engine", GUMSHOE | 1996, 2016 | Modern Lovecraftian horror and conspiracy | |||||||
Degenesis: Rebirth | SIXMOREVODKA | KatharSys | 2014 | Primal Punk | |||||||
Demon City Shinjuku Role-Playing Game | 1999 | Based on the novel and anime series of the same name | |||||||||
Demon Hunters Role Playing Game | Cortex System | 2008 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 2002 | Original World of Darkness | ||||||||
Demon's Lair | Lasalion Games | 1997 | |||||||||
Deryni Adventure Game | Grey Ghost Games | Fudge RPG | 2005 | ||||||||
Steve Jackson Games | 2003 | By Marcus Rowland | |||||||||
Diaspora | VSCA Publishing | FATE | 2009 | Hard science fiction | |||||||
Dinky Dungeons | Doc's Games | 1985 | |||||||||
Goodman Games | d20 System | 2001 | |||||||||
Diomin | OtherWorld Creations | d20 System | 2000 | ||||||||
Evil Hat Productions | 2011 | ||||||||||
The Doctor Who Role Playing Game | FASA | 1985 | Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | ||||||||
Doctor Who – Adventures In Time And Space: The Roleplaying Game | Cubicle 7 Entertainment | Vortex | 2009 | Based on the 2005–present run of the BBC television series | |||||||
Doctor Who – Time Lord (role-playing game) | Virgin Publishing | 1991 | Based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | ||||||||
Dogs in the Vineyard | Lumpley Games | 2004,2005 | Loosely based on the Mormon State of Deseret in pre-statehood Utah | Designed by D. Vincent Baker | |||||||
Domination | StarChilde Publications | 1989 | |||||||||
Dominion Rules | An open-source fantasy twelve-sided-die-based RPG encouraging innovative combat system | 1999 | |||||||||
The Dominion Tank Police Role-Playing Game | Guardians of Order | Tri-Stat System | 1999 | ||||||||
Donjon | Clinton R. Nixon, Donjon Anvilwerks | 2002 | |||||||||
Don't Look Back | Mind Ventures | 1994 | |||||||||
Don't Rest Your Head | Evil Hat Productions | 2006 | |||||||||
Drací doupe | ALTAR | Loosely based on Dungeons & Dragons | 1990,2004,2011 | The most popular Czech fantasy RPG system | |||||||
Dragon Age | Green Ronin | 2010 | Based on the Dragon Age video game series by BioWare. | ||||||||
TSR | SAGA System | 1996 | Dragonlance | ||||||||
Dragon Lords of Melniboné | d20 System | 2001 | |||||||||
DragonMech | Goodman Games | A cross between fantasy and mecha | 2004 | ||||||||
DragonQuest | Simulations Publications | 1980,1982,1989 | A now out-of-print RPG, suppressed by TSR[''[[Wikipedia:Please clarify|clarification needed]]] | ||||||||
DragonRaid | Dick Wulf | 1984 | A Christian RPG | ||||||||
Dragonroar | Standard Games | 1985 | |||||||||
Dragonstar | Fantasy Flight Games | d20 | 2001 | "Where science fiction and fantasy blend" | |||||||
Dragon Storm | Black Dragon Press | 1996 | |||||||||
Dragon Warriors | Corgi Books | An easy-to-use RPG system published in paperback format | 1985 | ||||||||
Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons) | Target Games | 1982 | Swedish fantasy RPG | ||||||||
Dread RPG | The Impossible Dream | 2005 | Uses a Jenga tower for action resolution | ||||||||
Rafael Chandler | 2002,2007 | ||||||||||
R. Talsorian Games | 1992 | Based on the 1981 novel Dream Park, which is itself about a live-action role-playing game amusement park. | |||||||||
The Dresden Files | Evil Hat Productions | A variant of the FATE game | 2010 | Urban fantasy | Based on the books by Jim Butcher | ||||||
Droids | Integral Games | 1983 | |||||||||
Last Unicorn Games | 2000 | Supposedly limited to 3000 copies[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]] | |||||||||
Dungeons & Dragons | Created by Dave Arneson and E. Gary Gygax, further editions by TSR, Inc. and Wizards of the Coast | 1974–present | |||||||||
Dungeon Crawl Classics | Goodman Games | Based on System Reference Document | 2012 | Old school fantasy | An OGL system that cross-breeds Appendix N with a streamlined version of 3E[''[[Wikipedia:Please clarify|clarification needed]]] | ||||||
Dungeon Squad | Jason Morningstar | 2005 | |||||||||
Dungeon World | Sage Kobold Productions | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2012 | Dungeon fantasy | |||||||
Durance | Bully Pulpit Games | 2012 | |||||||||
Dust Devils | Chimera Creative | 2002,2007 | |||||||||
Dying Earth | Pelgrane Press | 2001 | Designed by Robin D. Laws, based on the stories of Jack Vance | ||||||||
Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields) | Wydawnictwo MAG | 1997,2005 | Set in 17th century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | ||||||||
EABA | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | 2003 | A generic RPG system | 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 | ||||||||
Eclipse Phase | Posthuman Studios | d100 | 2009 | Sci-fi | |||||||
El-Hazard Role-Playing Game | Guardians of Order | 2001 | |||||||||
Eldritch Role-Playing System | Goodman Games | 2008 | |||||||||
Element Masters | Escape Ventures | 1983 | |||||||||
Elfquest | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1984 | Based on the works of Richard Pini and Wendy Pini | |||||||
Elfs | Adept Press | 2001 | |||||||||
Elric! | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1993 | Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné stories | |||||||
Empire of the Petal Throne | TSR, Inc | 1974,1987,2005 | Set in M. A. R. Barker's world of Tékumel | ||||||||
En Garde! | Game Designers' Workshop and SFC Press | 1975,1977,1988,2005 | Duelists from 17th century France | ||||||||
The End | Scapegoat Games | 1995 | Banned from Gen Con by TSR[8] | ||||||||
Enforcers | 21st Century Games | 1987 | |||||||||
Engel | Feder & Schwert | d20 System | 2002 | ||||||||
Eon | Neogames | 1996 | Swedish fantasy game | ||||||||
The Esoterrorists | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2006 | Occult, investigative horror | Designed by Robin D. Laws | ||||||
Espionage! | Hero Games | 1983 | Designed by George MacDonald and Steve Peterson, based on Second Edition Champions | ||||||||
Eternal Soldier | Tai-Gear Simulations | 1985 | Free Universal Role-Playing system | ||||||||
Etherscope | Goodman Games | d20 Modern | |||||||||
The Everlasting | Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc | 1997 | |||||||||
EverQuest Role-Playing Game | White Wolf Publishing | d20 System | 2002 | Fantasy | Pencil & paper version of the popular MMORPG series of the same name, designed by Owen K.C. Stephens et al. | ||||||
Everway | 1995 | ||||||||||
Ex Machina | Guardians of Order | Tri-Stat d8, d20 System | 2004 | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||||||
Exalted | White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 2001,2006,2016 | Epic fantasy; potential pre-history of World of Darkness | |||||||
Glutton Creeper Games | d20 | 2008 | |||||||||
Expendables | Stellar Games | 1987 | |||||||||
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Hogshead Publishing | 1998 | A storytelling RPG based on the stories about Baron Munchausen | Created by James Wallis | |||||||
Fading Suns | Holistic Design | d20 System | 1996,1999,2001,2007,2012 | ||||||||
Fabula Ultima | Need Games | 2023 | Inspired by Japanese role-playing video games such as the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series | ||||||||
Fanhunter | Gusa Comics/Farsa's Wagon | 1992 | Spanish game based on the series of comics of the same name | ||||||||
Fantasy Craft | Crafty Games | Mastercraft | 2009 | ||||||||
Fantasy Earth | Zody Games | 1994 | Includes Fantasy Earth: Basic Rules, , and The Essential Fantasy Earth | ||||||||
Fantasy Hero | Hero Games | Hero System | 2003 | ||||||||
The Fantasy Trip | Steve Jackson, published by Metagaming Concepts | 1977,2019 | The precursor to GURPS | ||||||||
Fantasy Wargaming | Patrick Stephens Limited | 1981 | |||||||||
Farscape Roleplaying Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | d20 System | 2002 | ||||||||
F.A.T.A.L. | Byron Hall | Custom | 2001-2004 | Fantasy | Adult-oriented role-playing. "Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery" | ||||||
Fate Core | Evil Hat | Fate system | 2003,2006,2013 | Generic | Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment based on the FUDGE engine. No longer an acronym.[9] There are other games that use the FATE engine | ||||||
Fate of the Norns | Andrew Valkauskas | Runic Game System (RGS) – Previous editions used a 2D10 based system | 1993,2002,2006,2012 | Viking fantasy | |||||||
Fates Worse than Death | Vajra Enterprises | Cyberpunk-influenced game set in Manhattan in 2080 | |||||||||
F'Dech Fo's Tomb | Judges Guild | 1981 | |||||||||
Fear Itself | Pelgrane Press | Gumshoe System | 2007 | Horror | Designed by Robin D. Laws | ||||||
Feng Shui | Daedalus Entertainment, Atlas Games | 1996,1999,2015 | Hong Kong martial arts movies | Designed by Robin D. Laws | |||||||
Fiasco | Bully Pulpit Games | Custom | 2009 | Various | Designed by Jason Morningstar | ||||||
Field Guide to Encounters | Judges Guild | 1982 | |||||||||
Fifth Cycle | Shield Games | 1990 | |||||||||
Puffin Books | 1982 | Created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, based on the Fighting Fantasy book series | |||||||||
Fireborn | Fantasy Flight Games | 2004 | |||||||||
Firefly | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex+ | 2014-2015 | Based on the television series Firefly | Designed by Monica Valentinelli and Cam Banks, a separate game from Serenity due to licensing issues, despite the same company producing both at different times | ||||||
Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1977 | The first role-playing game to be based on a pre-existing media property. | ||||||||
Flashing Blades | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1984 | |||||||||
Forbidden Kingdoms | OtherWorld Creations | d20 System | 2001,2006 | ||||||||
Forgotten Futures | Marcus L. Rowland | 1993,1998,2005 | |||||||||
Freedom Fighters | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1986 | |||||||||
Fringeworthy | Tri Tac Games | 1982,1984,1992,2009 | |||||||||
Tri Tac Games | 1982,1985,1990 | ||||||||||
FUDGE | Steffan O'Sullivan | FUDGE | 1992 | "Free, Universal, Do-it-yourself Gaming Engine" | |||||||
Furry Pirates | Atlas Games | 1999 | |||||||||
Future Worlds | Stellar Gaming Workshop | 1987 | |||||||||
Fuzion | R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games | Modified from R. Talsorian's Interlock System and Hero Games' Hero System | 1998 | A simple and customizable generic open gaming system | |||||||
A Game of Thrones | Guardians of Order | d20 | 2005 | A Game of Thrones | |||||||
Gamma World | TSR, Inc., Wizards of the Coast, Sword and Sorcery Studios | Custom (1st–4th edition)Alternity (5th edition) d20 System (6th–7th edition) | 1978,1983,1986,1992,2000,2003,2010 | Post-apocalypse science fantasy | Originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, with different editions based on different versions of D&D | ||||||
Gangbusters | TSR, Inc. | 1982,1990,2019 | 1920s American Prohibition-era urban crime adventure | ||||||||
Gangster! | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1979 | |||||||||
Gatecrasher | Grey Ghost Press | 1996 | A tongue-in-cheek science-fiction & fantasy setting | ||||||||
Gear Krieg | Dream Pod 9 | 2001 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storytelling System | 2009 | New World of Darkness | ||||||||
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Guardians of Order | Tri-Stat System | 2000 | ||||||||
Ghostbusters: A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying Game | West End Games | Precursor to D6 System | 1986,1989 | Created by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis, and Greg Stafford, based on the Ghostbusters film series | First RPG to use a dice pool system[10] | ||||||
Ghosts of Albion | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 2008,2011 | Based on the Ghosts of Albion animations and novels by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden | |||||||
Mike Suchcicki | 1982 | ||||||||||
Godlike | Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press | One-Roll Engine | 2001 | ||||||||
Golden Heroes | Games Workshop | 1984 | |||||||||
Good Society | Storybrewers | 2018 | Regency romance | Based on the Regency era novels of Jane Austen | |||||||
Grey Ranks | Bully Pulpit Games | 2007 | |||||||||
Grimm | Fantasy Flight Games | Linear D6 | 2004 | ||||||||
GUMSHOE System | Pelgrane Press | Gumshoe System | 2007 | By Robin D. Laws | |||||||
Gunslingers and Gamblers | FJGaming | 2006 | The American Wild West of 1876 | ||||||||
GURPS | Steve Jackson Games | GURPS | 1985,1986,1988,2004 | Generic | Gurps is an acronym for "Generic Universal Role Playing System" | ||||||
HackMaster | Kenzer & Company | Custom, derived from AD&D system | 2001,2009,2011 | Based on the comic Knights of the Dinner Table | |||||||
Halcyon | Neuwerld Studios | Prodigy System | 2008 | ||||||||
Happy Birthday, Robot! | Evil Hat Productions | 2010 | |||||||||
HârnMaster | Columbia Games | 1986,1996,2002 | Hârn | ||||||||
Louis Porter Jr. Design | d20 System | 2003 | |||||||||
Hawkmoon | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1986 | An addendum to the Stormbringer RPG (a.k.a. Elric!) | By Kerie Campbell-Robson, based on Michael Moorcock's The History of the Runestaff | ||||||
Rowan, Rook & Decard | 2020 | Dark fantasy | Designed by Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor | ||||||||
Heaven & Earth | Event Horizon Productions | Tri-Stat System | 1998 | ||||||||
Heavy Gear | Dream Pod 9 | 1994 | |||||||||
Hercules & Xena Roleplaying Game | West End Games | D6 System | 1998 | Based on the syndicated action series and | |||||||
Hero System | Hero Games | 1990,2002,2004,2009 | |||||||||
HeroQuest/Hero Wars | Issaries, Inc. | Narrative | 2000,2003,2009,2015,2020 | ||||||||
Heroes | Tabletop Games (UK) | 1979 | |||||||||
Heroes of Olympus | Task Force Games | 1981 | |||||||||
Heroes Unlimited | Palladium Books | Megaversal system | 1984,1987,1993,1998 | ||||||||
Hidden Kingdom | New Rules Inc. | 1985 | |||||||||
High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game | TSR, Inc. | 1993 | |||||||||
High Adventure Role Playing (HARP) | Iron Crown Enterprises | 2003 | |||||||||
High Colonies | Waterford Publishing House, Ltd. | 1988 | |||||||||
High Fantasy | Fantasy Productions, Reston Publishing | 1978,1981 | |||||||||
Hillfolk | Pelgrane Press | Dramasystem | 2013 | Designed by Robin D. Laws | |||||||
Hol | Black Dog Game Factory | 1994,2002 | |||||||||
Hollow Earth Expedition | Exile Games Studio | 2006 | 1930's style pulp adventure | ||||||||
Hollyworld | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | 2005 | |||||||||
Honey Heist | Rowan, Rook & Decard | Modified Lasers & Feelings | 2017 | Comedy heist | Designed by Grant Howitt | ||||||
Hong Kong Action Theater | Event Horizon Productions | 1996,2001 | |||||||||
Houses of the Blooded | 2008 | ||||||||||
How We Came To Live Here | Galileo Games | 2010 | |||||||||
Hunter Planet | H-PAC | 1986 | |||||||||
White Wolf PublishingRenegade Game Studios | Storyteller System | 1999,2022 | World of Darkness personal horror | Designed by Andrew Bates, Phil Brucato, Ken Cliffe, Jess Heinig, Mike Tinney, Stewart Wieck, et al. | |||||||
White Wolf Publishing, Onyx Path Publishing | Storytelling System | 2008,2022 | Chronicles of Darkness personal horror | Designed by Justin Achilli, Rich Thomas, and Chuck Wendig (1st ed.), and Monica Valentinelli (2nd ed.) | |||||||
Hyborian War | Reality Simulations Inc. | 1984 | Hyborian Age | Based on the world of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard | |||||||
Ran Valerhon | 1993 | ||||||||||
In Dark Alleys | Vajra Enterprises | 2007 | |||||||||
In Nomine | Steve Jackson Games | Based on In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | 1997 | ||||||||
In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | Croc (Siroz) | 1989,1993,1997,2003,2015 | Satiric gang/spy wars involving angels and demons in the contemporary world | French | |||||||
Incursion | Tri Tac Games | 1992 | |||||||||
Infernum | Mongoose Publishing | ||||||||||
Infinity | The Infinity Company | 1979 | |||||||||
Inner City | Inner City Games | 1982 | |||||||||
Inou Tsukai | Enterbrain | ||||||||||
InSpectres | Memento Mori Theatricks | 2002 | |||||||||
Invisible Sun | Monte Cook Games | Related to Cypher System | 2018-2020 | The Actuality, comprising eight worlds arranged in the Path of Suns | Surreal fantasy where the players take the roles of powerful magic-users | ||||||
Iron Kingdoms | Privateer Press | d20 System | 2004 | ||||||||
Ironhedge | Empire Wargames | 1979 | |||||||||
Iron Heroes | Fiery Dragon Productions | d20 system | 2005 | Based on making D&D playable without magic[''[[Wikipedia:Please clarify|clarification needed]]] | |||||||
Ironsworn | Shawn Tomkin | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2018 | ||||||||
It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show | Stellar Games | 1989 | |||||||||
It Was a Mutual Decision | Ron Edwards | 2006 | |||||||||
Jadeclaw | Sanguine Productions Ltd | 2002 | |||||||||
James Bond 007: Role-Playing in Her Majesty's Secret Service | Victory Games, a branch of Avalon Hill | 1983 | The world of the James Bond franchise | ||||||||
Mongoose Publishing | Based on the TV series | ||||||||||
Wet Ink Games / Game and a Curry | 2021 | Designed by Banana Chan and Sen-Foong Lim | |||||||||
John Carter, Warlord of Mars | Heritage Models | 1978 | |||||||||
Jorune (or Skyrealms of Jorune) | SkyRealms Publishing | 1984 | |||||||||
Jovian Chronicles | Dream Pod 9 | 1997 | |||||||||
Games Workshop | 1985-1989 | Set in the world of Judge Dredd from the British comics 2000 AD | |||||||||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2002 | Set in the world of Judge Dredd from the British comics 2000 AD | |||||||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | Traveller | 2009 | Set in the world of Judge Dredd from the British comics 2000 AD | New edition of the previous 2002 game, with different rules. | ||||||
Justice, Inc. | Hero Games[11] | Hero System | 1984 | 1930s Pulp fiction oriented adventure | |||||||
Justifiers | StarChilde Publications | 1988 | Play as human/animal hybrids (Betas) that are owned by "the Corporation"; locate new resources, eliminate threats, and buy your freedom | ||||||||
KABAL | Kabal Gaming Systems | 1982 | |||||||||
Kids on Bikes | Hunters Entertainment | 2019 | |||||||||
kill puppies for satan (sic) | Lumpley Games | 2001 | Designed by D. Vincent Baker | ||||||||
Killer | Steve Jackson Games | 1981 | Live action role-playing game | ||||||||
Kindred of the East | White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 1998 | Old World of Darkness | Spinoff of | ||||||
Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom | White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 2003 | Old World of Darkness | Spinoff of | ||||||
Knights and Magick | 1980 | ||||||||||
Knights of the Round Table | Little Soldier Games | 1976 | Set in Camelot | ||||||||
Kobolds Ate My Baby! | 9th Level Games | 1999,2001,2005 | |||||||||
Krysztaly Czasu | MAG | 1993 | Polish, Crystals of Time | ||||||||
Kult | Äventyrsspel | 1991 | Swedish game based on Gnostic concepts with some Kabbalistic undertones | ||||||||
Labyrinth Lord | Goblinoid Games | D&D Basic Set | 2007,2009 | ||||||||
Lace and Steel | Published originally by TAGG and re-released by Pharos Press | 1989 | An Australian RPG set in a world of civilised Centaurs and Harpies with a musketeers/swashbuckling feel | ||||||||
Land of the Rising Sun | Fantasy Games Unlimited | Chivalry & Sorcery | 1980 | Samurai and Ninjas | |||||||
Lands of Adventure | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1983 | |||||||||
The Laundry | Cubicle 7 | Basic Role-Playing | 2010 | ||||||||
Legacy | Legacy Press | 1978 | |||||||||
Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | Roll & Keep | 1997,2000,2005,2010,2018 | The game uses the Legend of the Five Rings setting, primarily the nation of Rokugan, which is based on feudal Japan with influences from other East Asian cultures. | |||||||
Legends of Anglerre | Cubicle 7 | 2010 | |||||||||
Legionnaire | FASA | 1990 | Standalone role-playing game for the Renegade Legion universe | ||||||||
Lejendary Adventure | Hekaforge Productions | 1999 | Created by Gary Gygax | ||||||||
Leverage | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Plus | 2010 | Based on the Leverage TV series | Game written by Cam Banks and Rob Donahuge | ||||||
Little Fears – The Role-playing Game of Childhood Terror | Key 20 Publishing | 2001 | |||||||||
Living Steel | Leading Edge Games | Phoenix Command | 1987 | Futuristic game on the world of Rhand | |||||||
Lone Wolf | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 1984 | A series of gamebooks and ; also a second game by Mongoose, the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book | |||||||
Lord of the Rings Adventure Game | Iron Crown Enterprises | 1991-1999 | Based upon the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||||||
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game | Decipher, Inc. | 2002-2006 | Based upon the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||||||
Lords of Creation | Avalon Hill | 1983 | |||||||||
Alliance Publications | 1983 | ||||||||||
Macho Women with Guns | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | 1988,1994,2003 | |||||||||
Palladium Books | Megaversal | 1993 | |||||||||
Maelstrom | Puffin Books | 1984 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing (1st, 2nd and revised editions)Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) | Storytelling System | 1993 1995 2000 2015 | Set in the original World of Darkness | ||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storytelling System | 2005,2016 | Chronicles of Darkness | ||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 1998 | World of Darkness | ||||||||
Malefices | Jeux Descartes | 1985 | The first original French-language horror role-playing game. | ||||||||
Man, Myth & Magic | Yaquinto | 1982 | RPG drawing on myths and legends of cultures from 4000 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E. | ||||||||
Manhunter | Kingslayer Productions | 1988 | |||||||||
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Plus | 2012 | ||||||||
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game | TSR | SAGA System | 1998 | ||||||||
Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game | TSR, Inc. | 1984,1986 | |||||||||
Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game | Marvel Comics | 2003 | |||||||||
Masterbook | West End Games | 1994 | |||||||||
The Masters of the Universe Role Playing Game | FASA | 1985 | |||||||||
Mechamorphosis | Fantasy Flight Games | d20 System | 2004 | ||||||||
Mechanical Dream | SteamLogic | 2002 | |||||||||
The Mechanoid Invasion | Palladium Books | 1981 | |||||||||
MechWarrior | FASA Corporation, Fantasy Productions LLC | 1986 | |||||||||
MEGA Role-Playing System | MEGA Games Ltd. | 1987 | |||||||||
Megaverse | Palladium Books | ||||||||||
Mekton | R. Talsorian Games | Interlock System | 1985,1987,1994 | Based on Anime Mecha science fiction | |||||||
Wilmark Dynasty | 1980 | ||||||||||
West End Games | 1997 | ||||||||||
MERC | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1981 | A Modern Role Playing Game of Counter Insurgency | ||||||||
Merc 2000 | Twilight 2000 updated for the post-Cold War '90s | ||||||||||
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes | Flying Buffalo | Custom Tunnels and Trolls derivative | 1983,1986,2019 | ||||||||
The Metabarons Roleplaying Game | West End Games | ||||||||||
Metamorphosis Alpha | 1976 | Set on a generation spaceship, the starship Warden, long after an unknown cataclysmic event | |||||||||
2012 | |||||||||||
Middle Earth Role Play | Iron Crown Enterprises | Streamlined Rolemaster | 1984,1986,1993 | Based upon the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien | |||||||
Midgard | Midgard Press | 1981,1985,1989,2000,2013 | The oldest German fantasy RPG | ||||||||
Midnight | Fantasy Flight Games | Dungeons & Dragons | 2003 | A fantasy world wereinwhich the bad guys have won | |||||||
Midnight at the Well of Souls Role-Playing System | TAG Industries | 1985 | Based on the "Well of Souls" novels by Jack L. Chalker. | ||||||||
Millennium's End | Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment | 1991 | |||||||||
M.I.S.S.I.O.N. | Kabal Gaming Systems | 1982 | By Deiron e Yangsmoth | ||||||||
Mistborn Adventure Game | Crafty Games | 2011 | Based on American author Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novel series | ||||||||
Mojo | Polymancer Studios, Inc. | 2004 | |||||||||
Monastyr | Wydawnictwo Portal | 3d20 system | 2004 | Polish, Monastery | |||||||
Monsterhearts | Buried Without Ceremony | Powered by the Apocalypse | 2012,2017 | Teen drama, paranormal romance, horror | A game about the messy lives of teenage monsters by Joe Mcdaldno (1st ed.), designed by Avery Alder (2nd ed.) | ||||||
Monsters! Monsters! | Metagaming Concepts | 1976 | Fantasy system where the player characters are monsters | ||||||||
Monsters and Other Childish Things | Arc Dream Publishing | One-Roll Engine | 2007 | ||||||||
Mordheim | Games Workshop | 1999 | A variant of the company's Warhammer Fantasy game set on a warband or "skirmish" scale. | ||||||||
Mörk Borg | Free League Publishing | 2020 | Heavy metal music-inspired fantasy | ||||||||
Morpheus | Rapport Games | 1990 | |||||||||
The Morrow Project | Timeline Ltd. | Timeline System | 1980,1983,2013 | Post apocalypse USA 150 years after WW III | |||||||
Morton's List | Dark Carnival Games, LLC | ||||||||||
Mothership | Tuesday Knight Games | Old School Revival-style d100 rules | 2018, 2024 | Science fiction horror | |||||||
Mouse Guard | Archaia Entertainment | A version of the Burning Wheel engine | 2008 | By Luke Crane, based on David Petersen's comics series of the same name. | |||||||
Multiverser | Valdron, Inc. | 1997 | By E.R. Jones and M. Joseph Young | ||||||||
White Wolf | Storyteller System | 2001 | World of Darkness | ||||||||
Murphy's World | Peregrine Creative Services | Weapons & Wonder | 1995 | ||||||||
Mutant | Target Games | Basic Role-Playing | 1984,1989 | ||||||||
Mutant Chronicles | Target Games | 1993 | |||||||||
Mutant City Blues | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2009 | Superhero detectives | |||||||
Mutant Future | Goblinoid Games | 2008,2010 | |||||||||
Mutant RYMD | Target Games | 1992 | |||||||||
Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare | Target Games | 2002 | By Järnringen Förlag AB | ||||||||
Mutants & Masterminds | Green Ronin Publishing | d20 System | 2002 | ||||||||
Mutazoids | Whit Productions Inc | 1989 | |||||||||
My Life with Master | Half Meme Press | 2003 | Comic horror, Gothic horror | Written by Paul Czege | |||||||
Myrskyn aika | Johnny Kniga Kustannus | 2003 | By Mike Pohjola | ||||||||
Mythworld | Hippogriff Publications | 1986 | |||||||||
Neighborhood | Wheaton Publications | 1982 | |||||||||
Nephilim | Chaosium | 1992 | Modern occult | ||||||||
Neuroshima | Portal | 2003 | Polish | ||||||||
Daedalus Games | 1994 | ||||||||||
Nicotine Girls | Half Meme Press | 2002 | "A roleplaying game of teenage, lower-income girls looking for happiness."[12] | Designed by Paul Czege | |||||||
Nightbane | Palladium Books | 1995 | Dark fantasy | ||||||||
Nightlife | Stellar Games | 1990 | Horror | ||||||||
Night of the Ninja | IIE Games Corporation | 1986 | |||||||||
Night's Black Agents | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2012 | Horror-espionage vampire-hunting | Created by Kenneth Hite | ||||||
Night Wizard! | Enterbrain | 2002,2007 | Wizards in contemporary times | Japanese | |||||||
Ninja Burger | Steve Jackson Games | PDQ | 2001 | ||||||||
Ninjas and Superspies | Palladium Books | Megaversal | 1987,1990,2000,2001 | Martial arts and espionage adventure. | |||||||
Nobilis | Pharos Press, Hogshead Publishing, Eos Press | Diceless resource-management, optional live action system | 1999,2002,2011 | Created by Jenna K. Moran, writing as R. Sean Borgstrom | |||||||
Noctum | Mongoose Publishing | 2005,2007,2009,2015 | |||||||||
Northern Crown | Atlas Games | d20 System | 2005 | ||||||||
No Thank You, Evil! | Monte Cook Games | Cypher System variant | 2016 | ||||||||
Numenera | Monte Cook Games | Cypher System | 2013 | Science fantasy | Designed by Monte Cook | ||||||
Odysseus | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1980 | |||||||||
The Official Superhero Adventure Game | Brian Phillips | 1981 | |||||||||
Omnigon | Omnigon Games | 1989 | |||||||||
The One Ring Roleplaying Game | Free League Publishing | 2011, 2022 | Epic high fantasy | Set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, at the time between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Originally published by Cubicle 7 as The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild | |||||||
Only War | Fantasy Flight Games | 2012 | |||||||||
Ork! The Roleplaying Game | Green Ronin Publishing | 2000 | |||||||||
Orkworld | Wicked Press | 2000 | |||||||||
Orpheus | White Wolf Publishing | Original World of Darkness | 2003 | Contemporary, Horror | spinoff. Stand-alone setting, divorced from the generic World of Darkness, with a finished metaplot, published across six books. | ||||||
OSRIC | Knights-n-Knaves, Black Blade Publishing and Usherwood Publishing | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons | 2006,2013 | ||||||||
Other Suns | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1983 | |||||||||
Outime | Valhalla Simulation Games | 1983 | |||||||||
Over the Edge | Atlas Games | WaRP System (Wanton Role-Playing System) (custom dice pool-based) | 1992,1997,2019 | Surreal conspiracy set in the fictitious Mediterranean island of Al Amarja | Created by Jonathan Tweet with Robin D. Laws | ||||||
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game | Palladium Books | Megaversal | 1983,1984,1996 | ||||||||
Pandemonium! | MIB Productions | 1993 | Roleplaying in the world of tabloid news | ||||||||
Pantheon | Hogshead Publishing | 2000 | |||||||||
Paranoia | originally by West End Games, later by Mongoose Publishing | 1984,1987,1995,2004,2009,2017 | A satire of dystopian futures | Written by Greg Costikyan | |||||||
Pathfinder | Paizo Publishing | 2009 | Fantasy role-playing game | ||||||||
Pax Draconis | Technicraft Design | A detailed rules heavy space opera with a percentile system | |||||||||
Passion Play | Holistic Design, Inc. | 1999 | |||||||||
Fading Suns | Holistic Design, Inc. | 1996,1999,2001,2007,2012 | Live action role-playing game | ||||||||
Pendragon (or King Arthur Pendragon) | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing variant | 1985,1990,1993,1999,2005,2023 | Arthurian legend | Designed by Greg Stafford | ||||||
A Penny for My Thoughts | Evil Hat Productions | 2009 | |||||||||
Phantasia | |||||||||||
Phantasy Conclave | Phantasy Conclave | 1984 | |||||||||
Phase VII | Cheshire Games | 1982 | |||||||||
Phoenix Command | Leading Edge Games | Phoenix Command | 1986 | ||||||||
Pirates and Plunder | Yaquinto Publications | 1982 | |||||||||
Polaris (1997) | Halloween Concepts | 1997 | |||||||||
Polaris | These Are Our Games | 2005 | |||||||||
Powers and Perils | Avalon Hill | 1983 | |||||||||
Praedor | Burger Games | 2000 | Based on the eponymous comics by Petri Hiltunen | ||||||||
The Price of Freedom | West End Games | 1986 | America loses the Cold War and is occupied, but resistance is in their blood | ||||||||
The Primal Order | Wizards of the Coast | Capsystem | 1992,1995 | ||||||||
Prime Directive | Task Force Games | Custom, GURPS, d20, d20 Modern, Traveller | 1993,2002,2005,2008 | ||||||||
Primetime Adventures | Dog Eared Designs | 2004 | |||||||||
Chaosium | 1989 | Designed by Greg Stafford, based on Hal Foster's comic strip of the same name | |||||||||
Privateers and Gentlemen | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1983 | Naval adventure in the Napoleonic era | ||||||||
Dream Pod 9 | 1995 | ||||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storytelling System | 2006,2016 | Chronicles of Darkness | ||||||||
Psiworld | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1984 | SF adventures with a focus on psi abilities | ||||||||
Puppetland | Arcane Magazine, Hogshead Publishing | 1997 | Horror ("a grim world of make-believe") | Written by John Scott Tynes | |||||||
QAGS | Hex Entertainment | 2003 | |||||||||
Qin: The Warring States | Cubicle 7 | 2007 | |||||||||
Quest of the Ancients | Unicorn Game Publications | 1982,1988 | |||||||||
The Quiet Year | Buried Without Ceremony | 2013, 2019 | Designed by Avery Alder | ||||||||
Quintessential Mercy Studio | 1995,2002 | By William Spencer-Hale, Quintessential Mercy | |||||||||
The Realm of Yolmi | West Coast Games | 1977 | |||||||||
Recon | Palladium Books | 1982 | Vietnam War adventure | ||||||||
Red Dragon | Japanese | ||||||||||
Reich Star | Creative Encounters | 1991 | Fight Nazis in space | By Simon Bell and Ken Richardson | |||||||
Nouvelles Éditions FantastiquesMalcontent Games | 1985,1993 | By Denis Gerfaud (French, Rêve de Dragon) | |||||||||
The Riddle of Steel | Driftwood Publishing | 2002 | |||||||||
Rifts | Palladium Games | Megaversal | 1990,2005 | ||||||||
Rifts Chaos Earth | Palladium Games | Megaversal | 2003 | ||||||||
Ringworld | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1984 | Hard science fiction | Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis, Sandy Petersen, et al., based on Larry Niven's Ringworld novels | ||||||
Risus | Cumberland Games and Diversions | 1993 | Designed by S. John Ross | ||||||||
Robot Warriors | Hero Games | Hero System | 1986 | ||||||||
Robotech | Palladium Games | Megaversal | 1986,2008 | Based on the Robotech anime television series | |||||||
Palladium Games | Megaversal | 2008 | |||||||||
Rogue Trader | FFG[13] | Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay | 2009 | ||||||||
RMSS (Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing) | Iron Crown Enterprises | Fully expandable and customizable rules system | 1980,1982,1984,1999 | ||||||||
Rune | Atlas Games | 2001 | Norse mythology-inspired fantasy | Written by Robin D. Laws, based on the computer game of the same name | |||||||
RuneQuest[14] | Chaosium, versions also by Avalon Hill and Mongoose Publishing | Basic Role-Playing | 1978,1979,1984,2006,2010,2012,2018 | Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha | Originally designed by Steve Perrin, Ray Turney, Steve Henderson, and Warren James | ||||||
RuneSlayers | 1998 | ||||||||||
Ryuutama | Kotodama Heavy Industries | 2016 | Pastoral fantasy | Influenced by the animation of Hayao Miyazaki | |||||||
SAGA System | |||||||||||
Savage Worlds | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | 2003 | Generic rule system, with supplements for fantasy, horror, pulp, science fiction, etc. | Written by Shane Lacy Hensley | |||||||
Scion: Hero | White Wolf Publishing | Modern day children of the gods | |||||||||
Second Dawn | |||||||||||
Sengoku | Gold Rush Games | Historical fantasy set in feudal Japan | |||||||||
The Shab-al-Hiri Roach | |||||||||||
Shadow Lords | A world of epic heroes, immortals, titans, angels and demons. | ||||||||||
Shadow of the Demon Lord | Schwalb Entertainment | d20 | 2015 | Dark fantasy, grimdark fantasy, sword and sorcery | Written by Robert J. Schwalb | ||||||
The Shadow of Yesterday | |||||||||||
Shadowrun | Cyberpunk fantasy | ||||||||||
Shard | |||||||||||
Shatterzone | |||||||||||
Silver Age Sentinels | Guardians of Order | ||||||||||
Simian Conquest | |||||||||||
Sine Requie | Horror | Italian role-playing game | |||||||||
Skulduggery | Pelgrane Press | 2010 | Designed by Robin D. Laws | ||||||||
Skull and Crossbones: Roleplay on the Spanish Main | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||||||||
Skyrealms of Jorune | SkyRealms Publishing, later Chessex | ||||||||||
SLA Industries | Nightfall Games[15] | ||||||||||
Mongoose Publishing | d20 System, Runequest | 2002, 2007 | Based on the 2000 AD (comics) comic book of the same name. | ||||||||
S/lay w/Me | |||||||||||
The Slayers d20 | d20 System | ||||||||||
Smallville | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Classic | Based on the Smallville television series | ||||||||
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying | Green Ronin Publishing | Chronicle System | 2009 | High fantasy | Written by Robert J. Schwalb, designed by Schwalb, Steve Kenson, Nicole Lindroos, Chris Pramas, based on the series of the same name by George R. R. Martin | ||||||
Sorcerer | Ron Edwards | ||||||||||
Sovereign Stone | |||||||||||
Space 1889 | GDW | Victorian Era Sci-Fi (steampunk) | |||||||||
Space Infantry | |||||||||||
Space Opera | Fantasy Games Unlimited | The game is based on, "the grand tradition of Space Opera, in the vein of E.E Doc Smith and ... Star Wars from George Lucas." | Based on these sources the game includes: "psionic powers so prevalent in the Lensman series and in Star Wars with 'the force.'"[''[[Wikipedia:Citation needed|citation needed]]] | ||||||||
Spacemaster | SF adaptation of Rolemaster | ||||||||||
Space Quest | |||||||||||
Spaceship Zero | Green Ronin Publishing | ||||||||||
SpaceTime | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||||||||
The Spawn of Fashan | |||||||||||
Spirit of the Century | Evil Hat Productions | FATE system | 2006 | A pulp game | Designed by Fred Hicks, Rob Donoghue, and Leonard Balsera | ||||||
Splicers | |||||||||||
Splittermond | Uhrwerk-Verlag | Lorakis | German Fantasy RPG | ||||||||
Spycraft | Alderac Entertainment Group | Espionage adventures | |||||||||
Stalking the Night Fantastic | |||||||||||
Standard RPG System | |||||||||||
Star Ace | |||||||||||
Star Crossed | Bully Pulpit Games | 2019 | Romance | Designed by Alex Roberts | |||||||
Starblazer Adventures | |||||||||||
StarCraft Adventures | TSR, Inc. | ||||||||||
Star*Drive | TSR, Inc. | ||||||||||
Starfaring | Flying Buffalo | ||||||||||
Starfinder Roleplaying Game | Paizo Publishing | d20 System | |||||||||
Starfleet Voyages | |||||||||||
Star Frontiers | TSR | ||||||||||
Stargate SG-1 | AEG | Spycraft/d20 System | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
Star Hero | Fantasy Hero | SF adaptation of Hero System | |||||||||
Star Patrol | |||||||||||
Star Riders | Ianus Games | Parody of space opera | |||||||||
Star Rovers | |||||||||||
Starship Troopers (RPG) | Mongoose Publishing | ||||||||||
Starships & Spacemen | |||||||||||
Heritage | 1978 | ||||||||||
Last Unicorn | 1999-2000 | ||||||||||
Star Trek Role Playing Game | Last Unicorn | 1999 | |||||||||
Star Trek Roleplaying Game | Decipher | 2002-2005 | |||||||||
FASA | 1983-1988 | ||||||||||
West End Games | D6 System | 1987-1999 | Written by Greg Costikyan | ||||||||
Star Wars Roleplaying Game | Fantasy Flight | 2012- | |||||||||
Star Wars Roleplaying Game | d20 System | 2000-2010 | |||||||||
Star Wreck Role-playing game | Mike Pohjola | Parody game based on the Star Wreck movie franchise | |||||||||
Steve Perrin's Quest Rules | |||||||||||
Stormbringer | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1981 | Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné stories | |||||||
Storytelling System | |||||||||||
The Strange | Monte Cook Games | Cypher System | |||||||||
Strontium Dog | Mongoose Publishing | Traveller | 2009 | ||||||||
Super Squadron | Super-Hero game | Australian | |||||||||
Supergame | |||||||||||
Superhero 2044 | |||||||||||
Supernatural | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex Classic | 2009-2010 | Based on The CW's Supernatural television series | |||||||
Supervillains | |||||||||||
Superworld | Chaosium | ||||||||||
Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies | |||||||||||
Swordbearer | Heritage Games and Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||||||||
Swords & Wizardry | Mythmere Games | A free "clone" of the original version of Dungeons & Dragons | |||||||||
Sword World RPG | Group SNE | 2d6 System | 1989, 1996, 2008, 2018 | Fantasy, set in the same universe as Record of Lodoss War | Designed by Ryo Mizuno and Miyuki Kiyomatsu, the Japanese answer to Dungeons & Dragons | ||||||
Synnibarr (a.k.a. The World of Synnibarr) | Craig McCracken | Notorious for a nonsensical, poorly explained game-world and huge power-levels granted to beginning player characters | |||||||||
Systems Failure | Palladium Books | ||||||||||
Tales from the Floating Vagabond | Avalon Hill | 1991 | Comedy-fantasy | ||||||||
Tales from the Loop | Free League Publishing | 2017 | Alternative history science fiction | ||||||||
Talislanta | Bard Games | Omni System | 1987 | ||||||||
Taste My Steel! | Phantasy Network | 1982 | |||||||||
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness | Megaversal system | 1985-2000 | Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books | ||||||||
Teenagers from Outer Space | R. Talsorian Games | 1987 | Anime-based RPG | ||||||||
Guardians of Order | 2005 | ||||||||||
Tenchi Muyo! | Guardians of Order | 2000 | |||||||||
Tenra War | Enterbrain | 2007 | Japanese | ||||||||
Cracked Monocle | D12-based "Clockwork System" | 2012 | Steampunk, Fantasy | ||||||||
Terra Incognita | Grey Ghost Press | 2001 | |||||||||
Terra Primate | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||||||||
Theatrix | Backstage Press | 1993 | |||||||||
Thieves' Guild | Gamelords | 1980 | |||||||||
Thieves' World | Chaosium | 1981 | |||||||||
Thousand Year Old Vampire | 2020 | ||||||||||
Vajra Enterprises | 2004 | Historical fantasy set in Tibet | |||||||||
Time & Time Again | Timeline Ltd. | 1984 | |||||||||
Time Lord — Adventures through Time and Space | Virgin Publishing | 1991 | A Doctor Who RPG based on the 1963–89 run of the BBC television series | ||||||||
Timelords | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||||||||
Timemaster | Pacesetter Ltd; Goblinoid Games | 1984; 2011 | |||||||||
Timeship | Yaquinto Publications | ||||||||||
To Challenge Tomorrow | Ragnarok Enterprises | 1983 | |||||||||
Tokyo NOVA | Enterbrain | Playing card-based | 1993 | Cyberpunk | Japanese | ||||||
Toon | Steve Jackson Games | 1984 | Cartoon adventure inspired by the classic cartoon series from Warner Brothers and MGM | Written by Greg Costikyan | |||||||
Top Secret | TSR, Inc. | 1980 | Espionage adventures | Written by Merle M. Rasmussen | |||||||
TORG | West End Games | ||||||||||
Total Eclipse RPG | Shrapnel Games | By Steve N. Jackson – Smart phone optimized role playing game | |||||||||
Trail of Cthulhu | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2008 | Cthulhu Mythos horror | Designed by Kenneth Hite, based on Call of Cthulhu by Sandy Petersen and Lynn Willis | ||||||
Transhuman Space | Steve Jackson Games | ||||||||||
Traveller | GDW | 1977 | Space Opera | By Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren K. Wiseman. | |||||||
Traveller: 2300 | Game Designers Workshop | 1986 | Hard science fiction | Designed by Frank Chadwick, Timothy B. Brown, Lester W. Smith, Marc W. Miller | |||||||
Tri-Stat dX | |||||||||||
Tribe 8 | Dream Pod 9 | ||||||||||
Thrilling Tales | Pulp Amazing Stories | ||||||||||
Trinity | White Wolf Publishing | ||||||||||
Trollbabe | Adept Press | 2002 | |||||||||
True20 | Green Ronin Publishing | True20 | 2005 | ||||||||
Truth & Justice | Atomic Sock Monkey Press | 2005 | |||||||||
Tunnels and Trolls | Flying Buffalo | ||||||||||
TWERPS | Lou Zocchi | ||||||||||
Twilight 2000 | GDW | 1984 | |||||||||
Fantasy Flight Games | 1999 | ||||||||||
Underground | Mayfair Games | 1993 | |||||||||
Unisystem | Eden Studios, Inc. | 2003 | |||||||||
Universalis | Ramshead Publishing | 2002 | |||||||||
Universe | SPI | 1981-1983 | Subtitled The Role-Playing Game of the Future | ||||||||
Unknown Armies | Atlas Games | 1998 | Postmodernist-occult horror | Designed by John Scott Tynes, Greg Stolze | |||||||
Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game | Gold Rush Games, Sanguine Productions | 1998, 2005 | Fantasy Edo-period Japan | Designed by Greg Stolze (1st ed.), Jason Holmgren and Pieter van Hiel (2nd ed.), based on the comic book series of the same name by Stan Sakai | |||||||
Uuhraah! | Blackhawk Games | 1976 | Prehistoric setting with cavemen | ||||||||
Vaesen | Free League Publishing | 2020 | Horror mystery monster-hunting in 19th-century Europe | Based on Vaesen: Spirits and Monsters of Scandinavian Folklore by Johan Egerkrans | |||||||
Valley of the Pharaohs | Palladium Books | 1983-1985 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 1996 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing (1st, 2nd and revised editions)Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) Modiphius Entertainment(5th edition) | Storyteller System | 1991 1992 1998 2011 2018 | World of Darkness | Created by Mark Rein-Hagen | |||||||
Storytelling System | 2004 | ||||||||||
Victorian Adventure | SKS Distribution | 1983 | |||||||||
White Wolf | Storyteller System | 2002 | |||||||||
Victorian Gothic | Arcanus Press | Epic Dice System | 2020 | Gothic Horror | A dark world of the penny dreadful | ||||||
Villains and Vigilantes | Fantasy Games Unlimited, Monkey House Games | 1979 | |||||||||
Violence | Hogshead Publishing | 1999 | |||||||||
Visigoths vs. Mall Goths | Hit Point Press | 2020, 2023 | 1996 Los Angeles | Designed by Lucian Kahn | |||||||
Wanderhome | Possum Creek Games | 2021 | |||||||||
Warcraft the Roleplaying Game | White Wolf Publishing | Roleplaying game book based on the popular computer game by Blizzard | |||||||||
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay | Games Workshop | ||||||||||
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Games Workshop[16] | ||||||||||
Warheads: Medieval Tales | Urban Mammoth | A comically based tabletop roleplaying war game | |||||||||
WARS Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | ||||||||||
Manticore | 1997 | ||||||||||
Wayfarers | Ye Olde Gaming Companye | ||||||||||
Weapons of the Gods | Eos Press | 2005 | A wuxia-style game based on the manhua comic of the same name | ||||||||
Weird Wars | Pinnacle Entertainment Group | d20 System | 2001 | ||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 1992 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storytelling System | 2005 | |||||||||
White Wolf Publishing | Storyteller System | 1997 | |||||||||
What Price Glory?! | 1978 | ||||||||||
The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game | Last Unicorn Games | d20 System | Based on The Wheel of Time novel series by author Robert Jordan | ||||||||
When Worlds Collide | 2010 | ||||||||||
The Whispering Vault | Pariah Press
| 1993 | An RPG about god-hunting | ||||||||
Wild Talents | Arc Dream Publishing | ||||||||||
Wild West | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1981 | |||||||||
Witchcraft | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||||||||
Witch Hunt | StatCom Simulations Inc. | 1983 | |||||||||
Witch Hunter: The Invisible World | Alligator Alley Entertainmenf | 2007 | |||||||||
With Great Power... | Incarnadine Press | ||||||||||
Wizards' Realm | |||||||||||
Wizards' World | |||||||||||
Woof meow (role-playing game) | Game Systems | 1988 | |||||||||
World Action And Adventure | |||||||||||
World of Darkness (original) and the World of Darkness (new) "2.0" | White Wolf Publishing | Product line | |||||||||
The World of Indiana Jones | West End Games | ||||||||||
World of Synnibarr | WonderWorld Press | ||||||||||
World Tree | Roleplaying in a high-magic, highly civilized world populated by many sentient species, none of them human | ||||||||||
Worlds Beyond | |||||||||||
Worlds of Wonder | Chaosium | Basic Role-Playing | 1982 | Fantasy, superhero, and science fiction settings | Designed by Steve Perrin, Steve Henderson, Gordon Monson, Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis | ||||||
Original World of Darkness | |||||||||||
Year of the Phoenix | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1986 | |||||||||
Ysgarth | Ragnarok Games | 1979 | Written by Timothy Willard | ||||||||
The Zorcerer of Zo | Atomic Sock Monkey Press | 2006 | Fairy tales | ||||||||
Zweihänder | Grim & Perilous Studios | 2017 | Written by Daniel Fox, who first described it as a "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay retroclone"[17] | ||||||||