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Although several games based on the HERO System were published in the 1980s, including Champions, Danger International, Justice, Inc., Robot Warriors and the original versions of Fantasy HERO and Star HERO, each of the RPGs was self-contained, much as Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing games are.
The first Soviet " RPGs " ( RPG-40, RPG-43 and RPG-6 ) were, in fact, thrown hand grenades, and the acronym stood for ручная противотанковая граната, or " hand-held anti-tank grenade ", obviously not a launcher.
RPGs were used extensively during the Vietnam War ( by the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong ), Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by the Mujahideen and against South Africans in Angola and Namibia ( formerly South West Africa ) by SWAPO guerillas during what the South Africans called the South African Border War.
When the Russians began moving in tanks fitted with explosive reactive armor ( ERA ), the Chechens had to adapt their tactics, because the RPGs they had access to were unlikely to result in the destruction of the tank.
RPGs were a main tool used by the FMLN's guerrilla forces in the Salvadoran Civil War.
During the Yugoslav Wars ( 1991-1995 ), RPGs were used by all sides with great effect.
RPGs used were M-79 Osa, RPG-7, RB M-57 and M-64 ' Zolja '.
The men were shot after their armoured Mitsubishi Pajero / Shogun was hit and stopped by RPGs.
The game's fantasy setting, musical style and action-adventure gameplay were adopted by many RPGs.
All other games based on the manga were released exclusively in Japan, including a Super Famicom role-playing game ( RPG ), a Sega Pico title called Magic Knight Tanjou, two short RPGs for Game Boy, a raising sim, and another RPG for Sega Game Gear.
These programs later were transferred to CD-ROMs, and new role-playing games ( RPGs ) such as Who is Oscar Lake?
The gameplay of both games is reminiscent of other RPGs but more sophisticated than its peers — while the player wandered around gaining levels and equipment, there were things like a finite number of items in the world, and items stolen could be regained.
As RPGs increased in popularity, Dragon Quest, Ys and Kyūyaku Megami Tensei were also remade.
Romancing SaGa thus succeeded in providing a very different experience during each run through the game, something that later non-linear RPGs such as SaGa Frontier and Fable had promised but were unable to live up to.
The Marines were asked to take on the Aidid snatch mission, but having the advantage of being in the area for more than two months decided after mission analysis the mission was a " no-go " due to several factors centered around the inability to rescue the crew of a downed helicopter ( re: the indigenous forces technique of using RPGs against helicopters and blocking the narrow streets in order to restrict the movement of a ground rescue force.
During combat operations in Dagestan, there were witness accounts of one T-90 sustaining seven hits from RPGs, and remaining in action.
After countless RPGs, PKM rounds and an IED, two vehicles were destroyed and three other Soldiers were wounded.
All of the online RPGs of the 1980s were text-based MUDs, describing the action in the style of Rogue or Will Crowther's original Adventure game.
According to Roe R. Adams ( who worked on the Wizardry series of RPGs ), early action-adventures " were basically arcade games done in a fantasy setting ," pointing to Castlevania, Trojan and Wizards & Warriors as examples.
It was estimated that there were 12 – 24 separate " hardcore " groups of insurgents, armed with RPGs, machine guns, mortars and anti-aircraft weapons, some of it supplied by the Iraqi Police.
In 2004, plans were discovered posted online under al-Muqrin's name containing the itinerary, routes of travel, and security personnel of Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, and plans to assassinate him with RPGs.
Finally, both the second and third games were somewhat notorious for renaming characters whose names contained religious references, which some fans found unusual given the recent association with Square and other RPGs ( most famously Xenosaga ) that do not omit such references.

RPGs and used
RPGs can also be used to achieve a mobility kill, because no matter how thick the tank's armor is, its tracks remain the weakest components.
RPGs are used in this role only when more effective weapons are not available.
During the South African Border War, the Soviet RPGs used by SWAPO guerilllas and their Angolan supporters posed a serious threat to South Africa's lightly armored APCs, which could be easily targeted as soon as they stopped to disembark troops.
During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.
In their attacks, UCPMB used mostly assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and sniper rifles, but occasionally also RPGs, hand grenades, and anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.
In addition, in many RPGs and MMORPGs, spells dealing splash damage must be centered around a target, whereas area of effect spells may be used anywhere.
While most RPGs up to the mid 1990s primarily used swords and other traditional weapons, the characters in EarthBound use less conventional weapons such as baseball bats, yo-yos, and frying pans, with the exception of Poo, who can actually use a sword.
* d66 ( die ), a dice roll used in some old wargames and RPGs
The original concepts, used since the first game, took elements from the western RPGs Wizardry and Ultima.
An experience point ( often abbreviated to Exp or XP ) is a unit of measurement used in many role-playing games ( RPGs ) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.
The concept of permanent power-ups that are progressively unlocked dates back to the early NES action RPGs, Deadly Towers ( 1986 ) and Rygar ( 1987 ), which blurred the line between the power-ups used in action-adventures and the experience points used in role-playing video games.
Nonetheless, the inner fuel tanks ( which are used ) are more vulnerable than those of many modern IFVs – the weak armor means powerful shots ( like RPGs in Chechnya and Afghanistan ) can pierce both the outside vehicle armor and the inner tank armor.
The concept of permanent power-ups dates back to the early NES action RPGs, Deadly Towers ( 1986 ) and Rygar ( 1987 ), which blurred the line between the power-ups used in action-adventures and the experience points used in console RPGs.
Sequencing samples continue to be used in modern gaming for many uses, mostly RPGs.
Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other genres, including stealth, MMORPGs and RPGs.
Officials claim that it was being used by insurgents to fire RPGs and mortars.

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Earthdawn stands out from other tabletop RPGs with a unique approach to skill tests.
These games often share settings and rules with tabletop RPGs, but emphasize character advancement more than collaborative storytelling.
In video RPGs many of the functions of a GM are fulfilled by the game engine, however some multi-player video RPGs also allow for a participant to take on a GM role through a visual interface called a GM toolkit, albeit with abilities limited by the available technology.
RPGs, with the exception of self-contained versions, are loaded from the muzzle.
At the time, Soviet helicopters countered the threat from RPGs at landing zones by first clearing them with anti-personnel saturation fire.
For a time White Dwarf also contained material for those American RPGs for which Games Workshop had the UK licence, competing directly with TSR's own UK publication, Imagine, and various other mainstream UK and imported fantasy and science-fiction gaming magazines.
" The People's Republic of China also sold Type 59 tanks, Type 68 assault rifles, Type 56 assault rifles, Type 69 RPGs, and much more to mujahideen in co-operation with the CIA, as did Egypt with assault rifles.
The RPGs also portray Bowser in a more humorous light as a blustering, buffoonish bully with a hidden softer side.
"" N-Europe editor called him the " real star " of the game, calling him a " fantastic character " with " so much more to give than what we ’ ve seen from him so far, even in the other Mario RPGs.
Rather than using an overworld map screen like most console RPGs of its era, the world is entirely seamless, with no differentiation between towns and the outside world.
" Nintendojo and Gamasutra also criticized the similarities to Dragon Quest, with Gamasutra declaring EarthBound an " unabashed Dragon Quest clone ..." Despite the criticism, Gamasutra regarded the title " as one of the greatest RPGs on the SNES.
Though it is often not considered part of the genre since it lacked key RPG mechanics such as experience points, it had many features in common with RPGs and served as the template for the action role-playing game genre.
At the beginning of May soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division placed additional barriers along the eastern boundary of Sadr City to isolate the militants ' stronghold, but met heavy resistance as Mahdi Fighters attacked the soldiers with RPGs, IEDs, and small arms fire.
ICE then added the science fiction RPGs Spacemaster and Cyberspace to its line, and, with the rise of collectible card games, the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game.
This is concordant with Decipher's other main property in RPGs, the Star Trek RPG.
It has open environments like Dragon Quest and real-time side-view battles like Zelda II, though War of the Dead departed from other RPGs with its dark and creepy atmosphere expressed through the storytelling, graphics, and music, while the gameplay lacked a leveling system and featured side-scrolling shooter based combat with limited ammunition for each firearm, forcing the player to search for and conserve ammunition, and often run away from monsters, though the player could punch or use a knife if out of ammunition.
The game uses ten-sided dice and a rules system similar to the Storytelling System to arbitrate the action, and, as with many other RPGs, requires little beyond the rulebooks themselves, dice, pencil, and paper.
As with the Soviets tank crews in Berlin in 1945, who attached bedsprings to the outside of their turrets to reduce the damage done by German panzerfausts, some of the Russian armour was fitted quickly with a cage of wire mesh mounted some 25 – 30 centimetres away from the hull armour to defeat the shaped charges of the Chechen RPGs.

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