Topics: Roleplaying : Genres
This section contains sub categories for the various Genres, or areas of subject matter, that Roleplaying games seem to have broken themselves into. Each category contains pages that deal with more than one system in the genre and Systems specific to this genre.
Anime
Roleplaying games inspired by Anime or Manga.
Exalted,
Free Systems,
Mekton Zeta,
Teenagers from Outer Space,
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Christian
Roleplaying games intended to represent or promote a Christian ethos.
DragonRaid,
Free Systems,
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Fantasy
Fantasy has a special meaning when applied to Roleplaying Games (after all, all roleplaying is fantasizing, right?).
7th Sea,
Amber,
Arduin,
Ars Magica,
Bushido,
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Furry
Roleplaying anthropomorphic animals - animals that have hands, walk on two legs, use tools, speak, etc.
Ironclaw,
Toon,
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Historical
Roleplaying games using reality-based historical (i.e., before the last century) settings. Many such games have been published (beginning in 1975 with TSR's Boot Hill and GDW's En Garde!), but few have had any longterm success in the gaming market.
En Garde,
Free Systems,
Run Out the Guns,
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Horror
Roleplaying with the things that go bump in the night. While other genres can have scary elements - what's a Fantasy game without a tomb to plunder, after all?
All Flesh Must Be Eaten,
Beyond the Supernatural,
Bureau 13,
Call of Cthulhu,
Chill,
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Modern and Espionage
Roleplaying games set in more or less modern times, that at aren't particularly focused on horror, are listed here.
Feng Shui,
Free Systems,
James Bond 007,
Macho Women with Guns,
Millennium's End,
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Science Fiction
Science Fiction roleplaying games usually focus on the future, and usually use technology as the source of wonder, where a Fantasy game would use magic.
2300 AD,
Alternity,
Babylon Project, The,
Battlelords of the 23rd Century,
Blue Planet,
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Super Heroes
This category contains pages with information related to roleplaying games within the super hero genre.
Basic Action Super Heroes,
Blood of Heroes,
Brave New World,
Capes,
DC Heroes,
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Universal
Universal isn't as much a Genre as a category for RPGsystems that try to work in all genres.
Basic Roleplaying,
CORPS,
d20 System,
Free Systems,
FUDGE,
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