In 2002, the Dungeons expansion was released in starters and boosters, which featured a new type of gameplay more akin to traditional RPG " dungeon-crawl " adventures.

is the first expansion of Sonic Team's internationally popular online action RPG Phantasy Star Universe, available for the PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox 360.

The board game Arkham Horror and dice game Elder Sign are derived from mechanisms first introduced in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

The company is best known for creating The Elder Scrolls RPG series, based upon the original programming of Julian Lefay.

The Elder Scrolls games can be safely categorized as role-playing games ( RPG ), although they do include elements taken from action and adventure games.

In February 2007, Big Huge Games announced that Ken Rolston, the lead designer behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, had come out of retirement to join the company as Lead Designer on an untitled role playing game ( RPG ).

* Best RPG: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Hogan also voiced the character General Tullius in the RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Due to RPG origins with Dungeons and Dragons and other pen and paper role-playing games, the most popular setting for RPGs by far is a fantasy world, usually with heavy medieval European influences with Diablo series ( by Blizzard ), Final Fantasy series, Elder Scrolls series and Baldur's Gate series ( all different kinds of RPGs ) all sharing a basic fantasy setting.

) The implementation of RPG II on the System / 34 is similar to the RPG II used on the System / 36, the System / 370 and the System / 390, but not like the RPG III and subsequent RPG compilers for the iSeries.

Both of these products allowed users to write RPG II programs with RPG III opcodes.

Languages supported on the System / 38 included RPG III, COBOL, BASIC, and PL / I.

The CA Plex toolset also operates web and client-server applications, and generates in C #, C ++, Java, RPG / III and IV / ILE IBM RPG and is multi-platform.

In computer gaming the term is usually used to refer to a person highly skilled in multiplayer games like StarCraft, Warcraft III ( RTS / RPG-DotA ), Diablo II ( RPG ), Counter-Strike ( FPS ) and others.

RPG III was created for the System / 38 and its successor the AS / 400.

RPG III significantly departed from the original language, providing modern structured constructs like IF-ENDIF blocks, DO loops, and subroutines ( RPG2 Supported Subroutines ).

RPG III was also available for larger systems including the IBM System / 370 mainframe running OS / VS1.

It was similar to RPG III but lacking external Data Descriptions ( DDS ) to describe data ( files ) like on the System / 38 and its successors.

RPG / 400 was effectively RPG III running on AS / 400.

IBM renamed the RPG compiler as " RPG / 400 " but it was identical to the RPG III compiler on System / 38.

RPG III compiled with the RPG / 400 compiler offered nothing new to the RPG III language until IBM began development of new operation codes, such SCAN, CAT and XLATE after several years of AS / 400 availability.

* In the Rifts RPG, the capital of the Coalition States is the city of Chi-Town.

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

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is important not only because it represents the first published addition to the boxed first edition of Call of Cthulhu, but because its format defined a new way of approaching a campaign of linked RPG scenarios involving actual clues for the would-be detectives amongst the players to follow and link in order to uncover the dastardly plots afoot.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

The Hero System ( or HERO System ) is a generic role-playing game system that developed from the superhero RPG Champions.

* In the PS3 RPG game, Tales of Graces, Lambda is the name of the main story's antagonist.

No description is given, but the Ringworld RPG suggests they resemble horned birds and that their homeworld has low gravity.

* Mars is the setting for Worlds of Ultima II: Martian Dreams RPG by Origin Systems released in 1991.

* In the RPG Mutant Chronicles, Mars is the homeworld of Capitol Megacorporation.

This is mainly due to a last-minute mix of two different game designs: lead level designer John Romero wanted to make a dark fantasy beat ' em up / RPG hybrid game, while level designers Tim Willits and American McGee wanted to make a more futuristic, Doom-like game.

Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure / role-playing video games ( and later Action / RPG for game 5 ) designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole.

A role-playing game ( RPG and sometimes roleplaying game ) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

The original form, sometimes called the tabletop RPG, is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing games ( LARP ) players physically perform their characters ' actions.

A rocket-propelled grenade ( often abbreviated RPG ) is a shoulder-fired, anti-tank weapon system that fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.

RPG is an initialism from the Russian language РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт ( transliterated as " ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot "), meaning " hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher ".

The projectile of RPG launchers is similarly designated PG, ( PG-7, etc.

The Soviet Union-developed RPG-7 is the most widely distributed and used RPG in the world.

The basic design of this RPG was developed by the Soviets shortly after World War II in the form of the RPG-2, which is similar in function to the Bazooka and the Panzerfaust.

As in all arms races, these developments in armor countermeasures have led to the development of RPG rounds designed specifically to defeat them, with methods such as a tandem-charge warhead, which has two shape charges, of which the first is meant to activate any reactive armor, and the second to penetrate the vehicle.

An RPG is an inexpensive way to deliver an explosive payload over a distance with moderate accuracy.

Note that this concealment is often preferably outdoors, because firing an RPG within an enclosed area may create a dangerous backblast.

The Ringworld role-playing game is not a ' full ' science fiction RPG, like Traveller, including, for example, rules for starship construction, space combat, travel to different planets and systems, and so forth.

Risus: The Anything RPG is a rules-light generic role-playing game ( RPG ) written, designed and illustrated by S. John Ross of Cumberland Games and Diversions.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.