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.

; Forgotten Futures VIII: Fables and Frolics: Based on the fantasies of E. Nesbit, FF8 is a role-playing game set in a world of childhood magical adventures.

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.

Overall, the system is designed to encourage role-playing over strict adherence to an arbitrary set of rules.

Various later editions of RuneQuest, the narrative role-playing game HeroQuest ( the first edition of which was published as Hero Wars ), and the video game King of Dragon Pass were also set in Glorantha, as were several prominent fan efforts.

Traditional MUDs implement a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters, with players choosing classes in order to gain specific skills or powers.

Blizzard Entertainment helped to set part of " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", an Emmy Award – winning 2006 episode of the comedy series South Park, in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) World of Warcraft.

Four role-playing games have been set in the Marvel Universe:

RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha.

Only two publications were ever published, the Ringworld role-playing game box set itself, and the Ringworld Companion, both in 1984 by Chaosium.

The Ringworld role-playing game box set was titled " Larry Niven's Ringworld: Roleplaying Adventure Beneath the Great Arch ", referring to the way the Ringworld looked from its interior surface.

Shadowrun is a science fantasy role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist.

To confuse matters further there was another version of the game being published simultaneously with the GURPS edition, Traveller 20 or T20, which used the same setting but integrated into the popular D20 role-playing system and was set a century earlier than either Classic Traveller or GURPS Traveller.

A compact set of fanatsy role-playing rules derived from Melee, Wizard and ITL, with simplified combat and magic.

With time, Barker also created the role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne, set in the Tékumel fictional universe and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc.

Twilight 2000 is a role-playing game set in the aftermath of World War III ( the " Twilight War ").

* Unicon Roleplaying Convention, one of a set of role-playing conventions of Victoria, Australia

* The fantasy role-playing game Dragon Warriors is set in a fantasy world called " Legend " modeled on medieval Europe in an era approximate to this year.

* Killer ( role-playing game ), an official live action role-playing game set of rules, derived from the precedent and first published by Steve Jackson Games in 1982

Ars Magica is a role-playing game set in a quasi-historical version of Europe around AD 1200 with added fantastical elements, called Mythic Europe.

Video games set in Mystara include the Capcom arcade Beat ' em up / role-playing video games Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom ( 1993 ) and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara ( 1996 ).

In Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger, the player controls a set of characters, closely following the role-playing video game genre.

Authentic Thaumaturgy is a set of rules for portraying magic in role-playing games, written by Isaac Bonewits, based on the magic system Bonewits uses in real life in his capacity as the Archdruid of Ár nDraíocht Féin.

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.

The basic role of the gamemaster is the same in almost all traditional role-playing games, although differing rule sets make the specific duties of the gamemaster unique to that system.

The post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 2 and its sequel Fallout: New Vegas also feature a throwing weapon called the Holy Frag Grenade, bearing the same shape as the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

" The same term has also seen use among designers and players of role-playing games to describe a world with a malevolent deity.

* Under the title Mind's Eye Theatre: The Masquerade White Wolf also provides a live action role-playing game in the same setting, using their Mind's Eye Theatre system.

Symbolic interactionism developed from the same tradition and yielded several excellent sociological ethnographies, including Shared Fantasy by Gary Alan Fine, which documents the early history of fantasy role-playing games.

Indeed, the rise from the dead of Rolling Rock in the late 1990s has partially been attributed to the rise of dicing at around the same time, possibly fueled by Internet chat rooms where role-playing is common.

The 1988 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game module Ruins of Adventure was produced using the same adventure scenario as Pool of Radiance, using the same plot, background, setting, and many of the same characters as the computer game.

Current bishōnen examples from the same agency include Tomohisa Yamashita of J-pop group NEWS, Jin Akanishi and Kazuya Kamenashi of KAT-TUN, Takuya Kimura of SMAP, and Jun Matsumoto of Arashi, all of whom are phenomenally successful throughout East Asia by appealing to both younger and older women and whose widely praised, gender-incongruous physical beauty is often deliberately manipulated in terms of role-playing and, most commonly, fanservice.

In role-playing games, a campaign is a continuing storyline or set of adventures, typically involving the same characters.

A role-playing game was also created exclusively for the PlayStation under the name of The King of Fighters: Kyo, adaptating a manga with the same name.

The same year, Crytek's open world first-person shooter Crysis incorporated stealth elements within its gameplay, as did the multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 the same year and the first-person role-playing game Fallout 3 the following year.

* Campaign ( role-playing games ) and campaign setting, a connected series of battles, adventures or scenarios played by the same character in a role-playing game.

In the same year Interplay developed and released Fallout, a successful and critically acclaimed role-playing video game set in a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic setting.

A cross-genre or multi-genre role-playing game allows the exploration of different genres in their own settings with the same character, or different versions or incarnations of the same character.

On the other hand, a multi-genre or cross-genre role-playing game does not have to be the same as a generic game system, since it does not have to have rules for all possible genres, just those for the specific settings or worlds it covers.

That same year, KOS-MOS made a cameo appearance in the role-playing game Tales of Hearts, where she is one of many supporting attack characters for the player.

The background history of 2300 AD is a continuation of the nuclear war depicted in the Twilight 2000 role-playing game by the same company.