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=**RPG - Role-playing game**=

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=What is RPG?=

A role-playing game (RPG) is a game in which each participant takes the role of a character and creates, or follows, the story. Generally, RPGs often are based on fantasy or science fictions which, sometimes, restrict players to general rules in order to produce and direct the character to specific and expected experience (roleplay.org). Nevertheless, RPG is highly interactive. Players have to wonder around in the game, gather information and pay attention to the environmental clues that are given by the game master. Most of the time, props, like maps, weapons, and basic defensive magic, are provided in the beginning of the game, and players can level themselves up as they solve problems in the story.

A role-playing game, unlike board games and card games, does not necessary have a winner or loser. Due to its interactive nature, game participants are often placed in a group. Group members, centering the main character, work their way to the end or create different outcome of the game.

=History of RPGs=

The concept of role-playing games was originated in Europe during the 16th century by improvisational stage acts where participants were involved in the role-playing of stock characters, stock situations, and improvised dialogues. This concept of role-playing gained popularity, and in the 1970s, the first ever commercially published tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), was released. Due to its strategic game system, D&D broke the custom of traditional war gaming; it invented the idea of fictitious characters which are assigned to individual players. Some newly introduced concepts from this game includes the battling of fictional monsters, the gathering of treasures, quests, and the experience points system which improvises the growth of each character as the game progresses. This success in Dungeons and Dragons quickly manipulated the growth for the market of role-playing games; thus, a variety of similar RPG games were then successively released during the late seventies all of which includes //Rune Quest, Traveller, and Space Opera//. Despite the concepts in extensive game play and the attractiveness of fantasy arts in these RPGs, the literature and mythology included in the system of role-playing games are reasons that attract new players. As a result, in 1980s, countries world wide has demanded for multiple translation for different versions of these RPGs. And quickly after that, the creation of new games is no longer limited inside of America, but is also produced throughout the world by different channels of the media. In 1980, a new type of computer role-playing games (CRPG) was born, and slightly after that in 1983, an animated series of Dungeons and Dragons was published through television. Until today, role playing games are still highly valued for people of all ages; RPGs are no longer limited in the form of tabletop board games. With research and development, the market for role-playing games is vastly growing and extending; it ranges from small scale singular player Console RPGs to Massive Multiplayer Online RPG which holds more than ten thousand players in an instantaneously interacting community. In terms of player interactions, some of today’s MMORPG even consist of Marriage systems and Pet systems where players can get married or own a pet of their own choice. Today’s role-playing games are constantly growing with unlimited potential to a whole array of development; this grown in RPG games might be different from the original role-playing games of 1970s, however, traditional games are still highly valued by today’s RPG players.

__RPG History Tree__


=Types of RPGs=

Video Game RPGs
1. Classic Turn Based Single Player RPGs 2. Action RPG 3. Dungeon Crawler/Hack and Slash RPG 4. Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs
 * Final Fantasy I - X, XII
 * Breath of Fire
 * Earthbound
 * Valkyrie Profile
 * Dragon Quest
 * Xenogears
 * Secret of Mana
 * Terranigma
 * Tales of Phantasia
 * Star Ocean
 * Diablo
 * Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
 * World of Warcraft
 * Ultima Online
 * Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach
 * EVE Online

Pen and Paper RPGs
1. Dungeons and Dragons 2. Big Eyes Small Mouth (Anime based RPG) 3. White Wolf System 4. GURPS 5. Palladium 6. D20 Modern 7. Legend of the Five Rings
 * Eberron
 * Forgotten Realms
 * Swords and Sorcery
 * Ravenloft
 * Hot Rods and Gun Bunnies
 * Cock Fighting Seizure Monsters
 * Vampire: The Masquerade
 * Exalted
 * After The Bomb
 * Palladium Classic

__Examples of RPGs__

 * l [|Dungeons and Dragons]
 * | [|Final Fantasy Series][|Final Fantasy Series]Final Fantasy Series
 * | [|Dragon Quest Series][|Dragon Quest Series]Dragon Quest Series
 * | [|Xenogears][|Xenogears]Xenogears & [|Xenosaga][|Xenosaga]Xenosaga
 * | [|Wild Arms Series][|Wild Arms Series]Wild Arms Series
 * | [|Baldur's Gate][|Baldur's Gate]Baldur's Gate
 * | [|Neverwinter Nights][|Neverwinter Nights]Neverwinter Nights
 * | [|Grandia Series][|Grandia Series]Grandia Series