Draft:Outline of role-playing games

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to role-playing games:

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines.

What type of thing are role-playing games?

Role-playing games can be described as all of the following:

• A class of games –
• A form of role-playing –

Types of role-playing games

• Tabletop role-playing game –
• Live action role-playing game –
• Role-playing video game –
• Single-player –
• Online text-based role-playing game –
• Massively multiplayer online role-playing game –
• Roleplay simulation –
• Sexual roleplay –

History of role-playing games

• Precursors of role-playing games
  • Historical reenactment
  • Improvisational theatre
  • Parlour games
  • Fantasy wargames
• History of tabletop role-playing games
  • Timeline of tabletop role-playing games
• History of live action role-playing games
• History of role-playing video games
  • History of Eastern role-playing video games
  • History of Western role-playing video games

Role-playing games

By name

• List of role-playing games by name

By country

• Polish role-playing games
• Japanese role-playing games
  • Tabletop role-playing games in Japan
• Chinese Jubensha

General role-playing games concepts

Roles

• Gamemaster –
• Player character –
• Non-player character (NPC –

Terms

• Role-playing game terms

Persons influential in role-playing games

• List of role-playing game artists
• List of designers of role-playing games
• List of female role-playing game professionals

   * Dave Arneson
   * Monte Cook
   * Ed Greenwood
   * Jeff Grubb
   * Gary Gygax
   * Luke Gygax
   * Laura Hickman
   * Tracy Hickman
   * Harold Johnson (game designer)
   * Robert J. Kuntz
   * Len Lakofka
   * Kim Mohan
   * Roger E. Moore
   * Douglas Niles
   * Carl Sargent
   * Lawrence Schick
   * James M. Ward

See also

• List of role-playing game publishers
• List of role-playing game software