Origins Award winners

1998 video game

first fantasy tabletop role-playing game

1993 collectible card game

1997 video game

1996 action-adventure video game developed by Core Design

1991 strategy video game

science fiction wargame

Catan (), previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (Kosmos) as (). Upon its release, The Settlers of Catan became one of the first Eurogames to achieve popularity outside Europe. , more than 32 million boxed sets in 40 languages had been sold. The game and its many expansions are also published by Catan Studio, Filosofia, GP, Inc., 999 Games, Κάισσα (Káissa), and Devir.

board game

1994 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software

1998 fantasy role-playing video game

1989 video game

1993 city-building simulation video game and the second installment in the SimCity series

setting in the Dungeons & Dragons fictional universe

1999 video game

2004 board game

tabletop wargame

Tabletop horror role-playing game

2008 cooperative board game

tabletop role-playing game (rpg family)

2008 designer card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino

American computer game magazine

Shadowrun is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy, and crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy, horror, and detective fiction. From its inception in 1989, it has spawned a franchise that includes a series of novels, a collectible card game, two miniature-based tabletop wargames, and multiple video games.

magazine published by TSR

thumb|GURPS creator Steve Jackson (American game designer)|Steve Jackson in 2006 The Generic Universal Role Playing System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system published by Steve Jackson Games. The system is designed to run any genre using the same core mechanics. The core rules were first written by Steve Jackson and published in 1986, at a time when most such systems were story- or genre-specific. Since then, four editions have been published. The current line editor is Sean Punch.

role-playing game series

2015 spy-themed word-affiliation board game

1989 video game

card game spoofing table-top RPG play

2014 board game

2002 card game

cooperative adventure board game

board game series

1998 video game

1987 video game

Board game

board game

expansion pack

1982 video game

cards boardgame

1992 video game

video game series

Eberron is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. The game is set primarily on the continent of Khorvaire following a vast destructive war. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional D&D elements and races within a differently toned setting; Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies such as trains, skyships, and mechanical beings which are all powered by magic.

Science fiction tabletop role-playing game

tabletop role-playing game

thumb|Former BattleTech logo

1993 video game

HeroQuest is an adventure board game created by the American board game manufacturer Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop in 1989, and re-released in 2021. The game is loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the game itself was actually a game , allowing the gamemaster (called Morcar in the United Kingdom and Zargon in North America) to create dungeons of their own design through using the provided game board, tiles, furnishings and figures. The game manual describes Morcar/Zargon as a former apprentice of Mentor, and the parchment text i

2012 card game

games award

2017 board game

1997 video game

Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension or demiplane, called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called "domains", brought together by a mysterious force known only as the Dark Powers. Each domain is tailored to and mystically ruled by a being called a Darklord who is forever trapped and surrounded by magical mists surrounding the domain. Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire in the original AD&D Ravenloft I6 module released in 1983, became the first Darklord, bot

1990 video game

1994 video game

1996 video game

tabletop role-playing game (generic rpg family)

1995 video game

1986 military helicopter video game

Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introduction the game has been acclaimed by reviewers, and has been described as one of the best board games ever made.