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Cyberpunk 2020
tabletop role-playing game, sequel of Cyberpunk
Shadowrun
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.
Fighting Fantasy
gamebooks series
Traveller
tabletop role-playing game
Fudge
tabletop role-playing game system
7th Sea
tabletop role-playing game (rpg family)
Fate
generic tabletop role-playing game system
Savage Worlds
American generic role-playing game
Heavy Gear
tabletop role-playing game and 1994 video game
Exalted
tabletop role-playing game (rpg family)
generic role-playing game system
role-playing game system designed to be independent of setting and genre
DragonQuest
DragonQuest is a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications (SPI) in 1980. Where first generation fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) restricted players to particular character classes, DragonQuest was one of the first games to utilize a system that emphasized skills, allowing more individual customization and a wider range of options.
Storytelling System
role-playing game system
Castle Falkenstein
tabletop role-playing game
Fuzion
Fuzion is a generic role-playing game system created by the collaboration of R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games. The rights to Fuzion are jointly held by Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian Games, along with Steve Peterson and Ray Greer of Hero Games. Fuzion is a combination of the Interlock System (used in games like Mekton and Cyberpunk 2020) and the HERO system (used in Champions, Justice, Inc., Star Hero, etc.). Fuzion is an adaptable system which can be played in any genre and setting imaginable.
Nobilis
Nobilis is a contemporary fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Jenna K. Moran. Early editions were published under Moran's previous names, Rebecca Sean Borgstrom and R. Sean Borgstrom. The player characters are "Sovereign Powers" called the Nobilis; each Noble is the personification of an abstract concept or class of things such as Time, Death, cars, or communication. Unlike most role-playing games, Nobilis does not use dice or other random elements to determine the outcome of characters' actions, but instead uses a point-based system for task resolution.
Risus
Risus: The Anything RPG is a rules-light generic role-playing game (RPG) written, designed and illustrated by S. John Ross of Cumberland Games & Diversions. Risus is available free on the web. It was first published online in 1993. Earlier versions of the game were titled GUCS: The Generic Universal Comedy System (a parody of GURPS) and were distributed privately beginning in 1989.
13th Age
fantasy tabletop role-playing game
Alternity
Alternity is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) published by TSR in 1997. Following the acquisition of TSR by Wizards of the Coast, the game was discontinued in 2000 as part of a broader rationalisation of TSR's business holdings, but it retains a small and devoted fanbase. Parts of Alternity as well as TSR's classic Star Frontiers game were later incorporated into the d20 Modern game, especially the d20 Future setting. Star*Drive was the first campaign setting published for Alternity, and was introduced in 1998.
HeroQuest
2000 Tabletop role-playing game by Robin Laws
Over the Edge
Critically-acclaimed table-top role-playing game by Jonathan Tweet and others, published by Atlas Games.
Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game
1997 tabletop fantasy role-playing game
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