Similarly, an article ( written from an in-universe perspective ) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The role-playing game Over the Edge was inspired by discussions in A & E.

* Antwerp ( Quest For Glory ), a monster in the Quest for Glory computer role-playing game series

* Aberration ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a creature type in the role-playing game

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the amphisbaena is depicted as in traditional myth as a giant serpent with a head at both ends.

Rules can range from the very simple, as in tic-tac-toe, to those describing a game universe in great detail, as in Dungeons & Dragons ( although most of the latter are role-playing games where the board is secondary to the game, helping to visualize the game scenario ).

Basic Role-Playing ( BRP ) is a role-playing game system which originated in the fantasy-oriented RuneQuest role-playing game rules.

The BRP was notable for being the first role-playing game system to introduce a full skill system to characters regardless of their profession.

Bunnies & Burrows ( B & B ) is a role-playing game ( RPG ) inspired by the novel Watership Down.

It introduced several innovations to role-playing game design, being the first game to allow players to have non-humanoid roles, and the first to have detailed martial arts and skill systems.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

As such, the game emphasized role-playing over combat for, according to Steffan O ' Sullivan, " You're playing a rabbit, after all – how much combat do you want to do?

Bunnies & Burrows was the first role-playing game to allow for non-humanoid play.

In addition, it was also the first role-playing game to have detailed martial arts rules ( known as " Bun Fu ") and the first attempt at a skill system.

The mechanics of the role-playing game system were created specifically for Bunnies & Burrows, common at the time of its original publishing.

Although newer systems have updated game mechanics significantly, the ideas presented in Bunnies & Burrows created the framework for modern role-playing games.

Although the game had " incredible role-playing potential ", the concept of role-playing rabbits can be viewed as bizarre, and as such at least one commentator believes that " most people thought it was stupid " when it was first released.

At the time Fudge was conceived, it was stylish to give role-playing games acronyms for names ( for instance, GURPS and TWERPS ) and originally the usenet design project referred to the game as SLUG, for " Simple Laid-back Universal Game ".

In 2005, Gygax was involved in the Castles & Crusades role-playing game, which was conceived as a hybrid between D & D's third edition and the original version of the game conceived by Gygax.

* BattleTech-( FASA, 1984 )-initially conceived as a board game, it has created a brand that now includes various different boardgames ( tactical as well as strategic ), miniature game rules, a role-playing game, computer games, flip-book games ( by Nova Games ) as well as novels and a TV series.

Originally conceived as an online multiplayer action role-playing game ( and announced as such when it was unveiled at E3 in 2000 ), by the time of the game's release the following year it had evolved into a more traditional first-person shooter.

Similarly, authors of fantasy role-playing games sometimes compile bestiaries as references, such as the Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons.

It is not uncommon for video games with a large variety of enemies ( especially role-playing video games ) to include a bestiary of sorts.

White Bear and Red Moon is notable for containing the first published material about Glorantha, later used as the primary setting for the role-playing games RuneQuest, Hero Wars and HeroQuest.

Darcsyde Productions produced a supplement for use with Chaosium's Stormbringer ( 2001 ) role-playing game adapting the characters and settings from the Corum series for role-playing.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

Fudge is a generic role-playing game system for use in freeform role-playing games.

Rather than being a rigidly pre-defined set of rules like d20 System or GURPS, Fudge offers a customizable toolkit for building the users ' own specialized role-playing game system.

Seraphim Guard publishes HeartQuest, the first commercially published Fudge-based role-playing game, in addition to other Fudge games, and support for other gaming systems as well.

Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games.

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.

* Cthulhu Live-a live action role-playing game version of Call of Cthulhu.

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Chaosium's role-playing game Call of Cthulhu ( currently in its sixth major edition ) has been in print for 30 years and has garnered consistent praise for the high quality of its campaign and adventure supplements.

Chaosium, publishers of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, have a trademark on the phrase " The Call of Cthulhu " for use in game products.

August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One, but the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game classifies her as an Outer God.

However, the concept of the Dark Young was first introduced by game designer Sandy Petersen for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

The Mi-go are prominent antagonists in Pagan Publishing's Delta Green sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

* The Call of Cthulhu role-playing game has featured the Hastur mythos and the King in Yellow over the years ; one prominent example is the campaign Tatters of the King which also includes extracts from the play, as well as an early scene in which the player characters attend an ill-fated performance.

* The role-playing game Call of Cthulhu RPG used the train for one of its more famous campaigns, Horror on the Orient Express.

In some systems, such as the classic tabletop role-playing games Traveller, Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role-Playing, and the role-playing video games Final Fantasy II, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the SaGa and Grandia series, and Final Fantasy XIV, progression is based on increasing individual statistics ( skills, rank and other features ) of the character, and is not driven by the acquisition of ( general ) experience points.

The in-universe essay < cite xml: lang =" la "> In Rerum Supernatura </ cite > in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game offers a suggestion: Yog-Sothoth's name may be a transliteration of the Arabic phrase " Yaji Ash-Shuthath ," more properly " yajī ' u ash-shudhdhādh " يجيء الشذاذ, meaning " The abnormal ones are coming.

* Scream of Kachooloo, a horror role-playing game closely modeled on Call of Cthulhu.

* The " Call of Cthulhu " role-playing game

BRP was a " cut-down " version of Chaosium's RuneQuest role-playing game ( RPG ) and formed the foundation for the Stormbringer RPG, and was also adopted for Call of Cthulhu, the first horror role-playing game.

Outside of the band, Toren Atkinson is also an artist, having illustrated books for role-playing games including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu ( and Delta Green ), as well as the Lovecraft-inspired collectible card game Mythos.

An all-Mythos themed CD produced in association with Wizards of the Coast to promote their new d20 edition of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.

* Shoggoths appear in both the Chaosium and the Wizards of the Coast Call of Cthulhu role-playing game supplements.