Tabletop role-playing game
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A tabletop role-playing game, also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes
Role players at the Convention Burg-Con in Berlin 2009. The gamemaster (left) sits behind the GM's screen.
Role-playing games often use polyhedral dice to resolve game actions.
Statistics recorded on a character sheet
Miniature figurines, a dungeon diorama and other accessories for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign
The history of role-playing games began when disparate traditions of historical reenactment, improvisational theatre, and parlour games combined with the rulesets of fantasy wargames in the 1970s to g
Gary Gygax, co-author of Dungeons & Dragons, the first modern role-playing game
