List of tabletop role-playing games
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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 |
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13th Age | Pelgrane Press | d20 | 2013 | Fantasy | By Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo |
2300 AD | Game Designers' Workshop | 1989 - | Future of the Twilight 2000 universe | Originally called Traveller 2300AD | |
3D&T | Editora Talismã (formerly Trama Editorial) | A Brazilian generic system, turned to anime-style campaigns | |||
7th Sea | Alderac Entertainment Group / John Wick Presents | 1999, 2016 | Pirates / Swashbuckling | Designed by John Wick (game designer) | |
77 Worlds | Fireside Creations | Ward Card System | Post apocalyptic Earth | Designed by Stephen A Lee & James M. Ward | |
9th Generation |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Aberrant | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 1999 | Super-hero characters in the near future | Part of the Trinity series |
d20 | |||||
Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier | Kenzer and Company | 2007 | A Western role-playing game. | ||
Active Exploits | Precis Intermedia Gaming | 2002 | |||
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons | TSR, Inc. | (See also Dungeons & Dragons) | |||
Advanced Fighting Fantasy | Cubicle 7 | ||||
Adventure! | 1985 | ||||
Adventure! | White Wolf Publishing | Modified Storyteller | 2001 | A pulp adventure | Part of the Trinity series |
Adventurers' Guild | Adventurers' Guild | 1987 | Line of "generic fantasy" supplements | The Adventurers' Guild Bestiary, Adventurers' Guild Bounty Hunters' Handbook, Adventurers' Guild Sage's Tome, The Adventurers' Guild Tome | |
Adventures in Fantasy | |||||
The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game | TSR, Inc. | 1984 | |||
Adventures in Middle-earth | Cubicle 7 | d20 | 2016 | fantasy | Based upon The One Ring RPG |
After The Bomb | Palladium Books | 1986, 2001 | |||
Aftermath! | Fantasy Games Unlimited | 1981 | |||
Age of the Tempest | |||||
Agone (French) | Multisim Editions | 1999 | Edited in French by Multisim Editions and translated in English by Multisim Editions | ||
Albedo | Thoughts & Images, Chessex | 1988, 1993 | Based on the furry comic book series, Erma Felna by Steve Gallacci | ||
Aliens Adventure Game | Leading Edge Games | 1990 | Science Fiction | ||
All Flesh Must Be Eaten | Eden Studios, Inc. | Unisystem | 1999, 2003 | Zombie survival horror game | |
Alma Mater | Oracle Games | 1982 | Comic high school | ||
Alshard (Japanese) | Far East Amusement Research / Enterbrain | 2002, 2005 | Fantasy with mecha like Final Fantasy[citation needed] | ||
Alshard Gaia (Japanese) | Alshard system | 2006 | A contemporary fantasy | ||
Alternity | TSR, Inc. | 1998 | SciFi | ||
Amazing Engine | TSR, Inc. | 1993 | |||
Amber Diceless Roleplaying | Phage Press | Diceless | 1991 | Based on the works of Roger Zelazny | |
Anima: Beyond Fantasy | 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 World | Lumpley Games | PbtA | 2010 | A post-apocalyptic RPG of politics and survival | Created by D. Vincent 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[citation needed] | Designed by David A. Hargrave | |
Aria | |||||
Arianrhod RPG (Japanese) | 2004 | Japanese MMORPG-like | |||
Armageddon: 2089 | |||||
Armageddon: The End Times | Mongoose Publishing | D20 OGL | 2003 | Mek-based warfare | |
Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Roleplaying Game | 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 | |
Ars Magica | Lion Rampant (editions 1 & 2) | Fantasy | |||
White Wolf Publishing (edition 3) | |||||
Atlas Games (editions 4 & 5) | |||||
Artesia: Adventures in the Known World | Based on the Comic/Graphic Novels by Mark Smylie | ||||
Ashen Stars | Pelgrane Press | GUMSHOE System | 2011 | Gritty investigative Space Opera | |
Atlantis | |||||
Attack of the Humans | |||||
The Authority Role-Playing Game | |||||
Ave Molech | Morbidgames Publishing | modified d20 modern with 3.5 edition races | Fantasy setting with Steampunk technology |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | Game Designer's 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 | ||||
Cassiopean Empire | |||||
Castles & Crusades | Troll Lord Games | OGL System | Fantasy RPG | ||
Castle Falkenstein | Steampunk fantasy | ||||
The Castle Perilous | |||||
Challengers | |||||
The Challenges Game System | |||||
Champions | Hero Games | ||||
Changeling: The Dreaming | White Wolf (1st and 2nd editions)
Onyx Path Publishing ( 20th anniversary edition) |
Storytelling System | 1995
1997 2017 |
(Original World of Darkness) | |
Changeling: The Lost | (New World of Darkness) | ||||
Children of the Sun | Misguided Games | ||||
Chill | |||||
Chivalry & Sorcery | |||||
Chronicles of Ramlar | White Silver | ||||
Les Chroniques d'Erdor | French RPG of oneiric fantasy using a 54 card deck | Edited by Boite a Polpette | |||
City of Heroes | Eden Studios, Inc. | The tabletop companion to the City of Heroes MMORPG | |||
City of Mist | Son of Oak Game Studio | A noir (detective) RPG set in a modern-day city where once-ordinary people hold the power ancient myths and legends. | |||
Commando | |||||
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 |
Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of | Modiphius Entertainment | 2d20 system | 2017 | Hyborian Age | Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of was developed by a team of game designers, writers and artists, all led by Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment. The rights to publish this derivative work were licensed from Conan Properties International. |
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 |
Conan: The Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2004-2010 | Hyborian Age | One of the role-playing games in the Mongoose Publishing OGL System series |
The Confederate Rangers | |||||
Conspiracy X | Eden Studios, Inc. | extraterrestrials, UFOs, and government coverups | |||
C°ntinuum | Time travel adventure | ||||
Core Command | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Corporation the Roleplaying Game | Core Games Publishing | Scifi, Cyberpunk | |||
CORPS | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center | ||||
Corum | An addendum to the Stormbringer RPG (aka Elric!) | ||||
Creeks and Crawdads | |||||
Crime Fighter | |||||
Crimefighters | TSR | 1981 | |||
Crystalicum (Polish) | |||||
CthulhuTech | Wildfire | H.P. Lovecraft's horror with Mecha and Anime influences | |||
Cursed Empire | Chris Loizou | Dark fantasy | Formerly known as Crimson Empire | ||
Cutthroat: The Shadow Wars | |||||
Cybergeneration | R. Talsorian Games | Alternate setting for Cyberpunk 2020 | |||
Cyberpunk 2013 | R. Talsorian Games | Out-of-print and superseded by Cyberpunk 2020 | |||
Cyberpunk 2020 | R. Talsorian Games | ||||
Cyberspace | Iron Crown Enterprises | ||||
Cyborg Commando | New Infinities, Inc. |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Fading Suns | Holistic Design | ||||
Faery's Tale | Firefly Games | An interactive storytelling game of fairy folklore suitable for younger players | |||
Faith: the Sci-Fi RPG | Burning Games LTD | RPC54 | 2015 | Hard science fiction | |
Faldon | Illusory Studios | ||||
Fanhunter | Spanish game based on the series of comics of the same name | ||||
Fantasy Craft | Crafty Games | Mastercraft | |||
Fantasy Earth | Zody Games | 1994 | Includes Fantasy Earth: Basic Rules, Fantasy Earth: The Book of Magic, and The Essential Fantasy Earth | ||
Fantasy Heartbreaker Roleplaying Game | SubCellar Games | D20 | |||
Fantasy Hero | |||||
Fantasy Imperium | Shadowstar Games, Inc. | An interactive storytelling game of historical fantasy | |||
The Fantasy Trip | Steve Jackson, published by Metagaming Concepts | The precursor to GURPS | |||
The Fantasy Sagas | E-RPG System | A Player's Guidebook for Ironwood Omnimedia | |||
Fantasy Wargaming | A project by dissatisfied British Dungeons & Dragons players, it was considered incomplete and insufficient yet featured noteworthy elements and qualities that are still yet unseen in most role-playing games[citation needed] | ||||
Farscape Roleplaying Game | Alderac Entertainment Group | ||||
Fastlane | Twisted Confessions (Alexander Cherry) |
Roulette | 2004+ | Generic Dissipation | The first role-playing game designed around the roulette wheel. |
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 | Generic | Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment based on the FUDGE engine. No longer an acronym.[8] 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 | Viking Historical/Fantasy | ||
Fates Worse than Death | Vajra Enterprises | cyberpunk-influenced game set in Manhattan in 2080 | |||
Fear Itself | |||||
Feng Shui | Hong Kong martial arts movies | ||||
Fiasco | Bully Pulpit Games | Custom | 2009 | Various | |
Field Guide to Encounters | |||||
Fifth Cycle | |||||
Fight the Evil Power | A role-playing game designed for people who haven't played before | ||||
Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-Playing Game | Based on the Fighting Fantasy book series. | ||||
Fireborn | Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
Firefly | Margaret Weis Productions | Cortex+ | 2014-2015 | Firefly | A separate game from Serenity due to licensing issues despite the same company producing both at different times. |
Firelight | HobbyHorse Games, LLC | 2017 | World of 'Firelight' | A card-based role-playing game due for launch on Kickstarter in July 2017 and wide release in 2018. Attempts to simplify traditional RPG mechanics in order to make the genre more accessible. | |
Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo | |||||
Flashing Blades | |||||
Forbidden Kingdoms | |||||
Forgotten Futures | Marcus L Rowland | ||||
Freedom Fighters | |||||
Fragged Empire | Design Ministries | 2015 | Post-Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi. | ||
Friendly Wars | Undecided Studios | ||||
Fringeworthy | Tri Tac Games | ||||
FTL:2448 | Tri Tac Games | ||||
FUBAR | Vulpinoid Studio | ||||
FUDGE | Steffan O'Sullivan | FUDGE | "Free, Universal, Do-it-Yourself Gaming Engine" | ||
Furry Outlaws | |||||
Furry Pirates | |||||
Fusion | Høst og Søn | Near Future | A Danish RPG | ||
Future Worlds | |||||
Fuzion | R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games | Modified from R. Talsorian's Interlock System and Hero Games' Hero System | A simple and customizable generic open gaming system |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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A Game of Thrones | A Game of Thrones | ||||
Gamma World | TSR, Inc. | Modified D&D | Different versions are based on different versions of D&D | ||
Gangbusters | TSR, Inc. | 1930s urban crime adventure | |||
Ganghedge | Empire Wargames | ||||
Gangster! | |||||
Gatecrasher | A tongue-in-cheek science-fiction & fantasy setting | ||||
Gaterunner | Based on the novel Gatecrash | ||||
Gear Antique | |||||
Gear Krieg | |||||
Geist: The Sin-Eaters | White Wolf | Storytelling | New World of Darkness | ||
Genesis - The Role Playing Game | Inkeptum Ultra Visio | 1986, 1990 | Future, 2193 ce | Small-press former makers of the science fiction RPG Genesis. The First version was produced in 1986 and sold only 200 copies mostly around Calgary. The Second version was mass-produced in 1990 and sold all 2000 copies. The Third unreleased version has sat on shelves / in boxes / in a garage for the past 13 years. It is now being published at medium.com | |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | |||||
Ghostbusters | West End Games | Ghostbusters film series | First RPG to use a dice pool system. | ||
Ghosts of Albion | Eden Studios | Based on the Ghosts of Albion animations and novels by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden. | |||
Godbound | |||||
Ghoulash: The Last Game on Earth | |||||
Godlike | Hawthorn Hobgoblynn Press | ||||
Golden Heroes | Games Workshop | ||||
Gossip Beverly Hills | Based on the Gossip Girl TV series | ||||
The Great Commission | d20 | A Christian RPG | |||
Grey Ranks | Jason Morningstar | ||||
Grimm | |||||
Guardians | StarChilde Publications | ||||
GUMSHOE System | |||||
Gunslingers and Gamblers | The American Wild West of 1876 | ||||
Guns Of Santa Torina | Wild West theme set in an alternate historical timeline | Guns of Santa Torina | |||
GURPS | Steve Jackson Games | GURPS | Generic | Gurps is an acronym for"Generic Universal Role Playing System" |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Icar by Rob Lang | a free science-fiction game | ||||
Imagine Role Playing | |||||
Immortal: The Invisible War | Ran Valerhon | ||||
Ironhedge | Empire Wargames | ||||
In Dark Alleys | Vajra Enterprises | ||||
In Nomine | based on In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | ||||
In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas | Croc (Siroz) | satiric gang/spy wars involving angels and demons in the contemporary world | (French) | ||
Incursion | Tri Tac Games | ||||
Infernum | |||||
Infinity | |||||
Inner City | Inner City Games | ||||
Inou Tsukai | |||||
InSaNiTy the role-playing game | Haphazard Projects | uses the in-house DPS System | |||
Insight RPG System | Even V. Røssland / NEVR | ||||
InSpectres | Memento Mori Theatricks | ||||
Ironclaw | Sanguine Productions Ltd | ||||
Iron Kingdoms | Privateer Press | ||||
Iron Gauntlets: Heroic Fantasy Roleplaying | |||||
Ironhedge | |||||
Iron Heroes | d20 system | based on making D&D playable without magic | |||
It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show | Stellar Games | ||||
It Was a Mutual Decision |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Jadeclaw | Sanguine Productions Ltd | ||||
Jags | |||||
JailLords - Are You a Jail Lord or a Jail Fish? | |||||
James Bond 007: Role-Playing in Her Majesty's Secret Service | Victory Games, a branch of Avalon Hill | 1983 | |||
Jeremiah: The Roleplaying Game | based on the TV series | ||||
John Carter, Warlord of Mars | |||||
Jorune (or Skyrealms of Jorune) | |||||
Jovian Chronicles | Dream Pod 9 | ||||
Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game | Games Workshop | 1985-1989 | |||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | d20 System | 2002 | ||
The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game | Mongoose Publishing | Traveller | 2009 | ||
Justice, Inc. | Hero Games[9] | 1930s Pulp fiction oriented adventure | |||
Justifiers | StarChilde Publications | Play as human/animal hybrids (Betas) that are owned by the Corporation; locate new resources, eliminate threats, and buy your freedom. |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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KABAL | |||||
Khymir | Daes Irae Press | (set in Mark E. Rogers fictional world for his Zorachus series of books) | |||
kill puppies for satan (sic) | Lumpley Games | ||||
Killer | Steve Jackson Games | (live action) | |||
Kindred of the East | White Wolf | Storytelling System | Old World of Darkness | (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade) | |
Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom | White Wolf | Storytelling System | Old World of Darkness | (spinoff of Vampire: The Masquerade) | |
Kingdom of Nothing | Galileo Games | ||||
Knights and Magick | |||||
Knights of the Round Table | |||||
Kobolds Ate My Baby! | 9th Level Games | ||||
Krysztaly Czasu | MAG | (Polish, Crystals of Time) | |||
Kult | Swedish game based on Gnostic concepts with some Kabbalistic undertones |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Obsidian - The Age of Judgement | Apophis Consortium | 1999 | SciFi, Post-apocalypse, Horror | ||
Odysseus | |||||
The Official Superhero Adventure Game | |||||
Old Dragon | Redbox Editora | the first old school RPG in Brazil | |||
Omnigon | |||||
The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild | |||||
Only War | |||||
Ops and Tactics | |||||
Ork! The Roleplaying Game | |||||
Orkworld | |||||
Orpheus | White Wolf Publishing | (original World of Darkness) | 2003 | Contemporary, Horror | Wraith: The Oblivion spinoff. Stand-alone setting, divorced from the generic World of Darkness, with a finished metaplot, published across six books. |
OSRIC | |||||
Other Suns | Fantasy Games Unlimited | ||||
Outbreak: Undead | Hunters Books | ||||
Outime | |||||
Over the Edge' | Atlas Games |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Q10 | |||||
QAGS | |||||
Qin | |||||
Quest of the Ancients | |||||
Quill: Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player | Trollish Delver Games | 2016 | A solo RPG, about writing letters. | Translated in 2016 in French by the editorial house 500NDG and in 2018 in Portuguese by a fan. |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Uncharted Worlds | by Sean Gomes | ||||
Underground | Mayfair Games | ||||
Underworld | Synister Creative Systems | Urban fantasy set in modern day New York | |||
The Unexplained | Carnivore Games | ||||
Unhallowed Metropolis | Eos Press | ||||
Unisystem | Eden Studios, Inc. | ||||
Universalis | |||||
Universe | SPI | subtitle The Role-Playing Game of the Future | |||
Unknown Armies | |||||
URPG | a free and universal RPG Rules System | ||||
Usagi Yojimbo | based on the comic book series, Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai | ||||
USS Infinity | a new and different RPG | ||||
Uuhraah! |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Valley of the Pharaohs | Palladium Books | ||||
Vampire: The Dark Ages | White Wolf Publishing | ||||
Vampire: The Masquerade | White Wolf Publishing (1st, 2nd and revised editions)
Onyx Path Publishing (20th anniversary edition) Modiphius Entertainment(5th edition) |
Storytelling System | 1991
1992 1998 2011 2018 |
World of Darkness | |
Vampire: The Requiem | (new World of Darkness) | ||||
Vanishing Point (role-play game) | Sane Studios | ||||
Victorian Adventure | SKS Distribution | ||||
Victorian Age: Vampire | White Wolf | ||||
Victoriana - 2nd edition | Cubicle 7 Entertainment | ||||
Villains and Vigilantes | Fantasy Games Unlimited, Monkey House Games | ||||
Violence | Hogshead Publishing |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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Y-Modus | Dark Juju Games | written by Zach Owens and Jeremy Sanecki. This is a strategic role-playing game. | |||
Year of the Phoenix | |||||
Year of the Zombie | UKGames Publishing | D20 Modern | |||
Ysgarth | written by Timothy Willard |
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Game | Publisher | System | Dates | Setting | Notes |
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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 | |||||
Zweihänder | Grim & Perilous Studios | (Written by Daniel Fox. Deliberately similar in tone and rules mechanics to Warhammer FRP) |
References
- ^ Ryan, Michael. "Author". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ "d20 Modern website". Retrieved 6 February 2012.
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- ^ "Das Schwarze Auge". Ulisses Spiele. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ ISBN 1979905711
- ^ Rice, George. "Author". Retrieved 12 December 2011.
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External links
- A longer list can be found at http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/