The 10 Best Pen and Paper RPG Games Ever
This is a list of the ten pen and paper roleplaying games. They are widely considered the best RPG games ever. As you can see, the list is a little bit skewed towards older games. But all of these games have huge fan bases and have been time-tested. Without further ado, here is the ten best pen and paper RPG games ever.
10 – Gamma World – A science fantasy roleplaying game that was first published by TSR in’78. This game was the first roleplaying game to be created in the post-apocalyptic genre. So far, it has seen publication in six different editions over more than thirty years of gaming.
9 – Vampire the Masquerade – The first in a long line of products from White Wolf where you played the role of ‘the bad guy’. This game explored what it was like to be a vampire in the modern world and lead the way for products such as Werewolf, Mage, Changeling, Wraith, and many other great games.
8 – RuneQuest – Although not as popular as it used to be, RuneQuest is commonly considered by fans as one of the ‘original’ fantasy roleplaying games. It was created in the same genre as Dungeons & Dragons and Tunnels & Trolls, but with a slightly different campaign setting and game system.
7 – Champions – This was the original comic book / super hero roleplaying game. Many others have followed, like Marvel Super Heroes, Mutant’s and Masterminds, Heroes Unlimited, and more. But Champions was the first game to break the mold and put the player in control of a comic book super hero.
6 – Tunnels & Trolls – Also called T&T, this was the second modern roleplaying game ever created. It was published in’75 and was created to be an easier to play game than its predecessor, D&D.
5 – GURPs – The Generic Universal RolePlaying System is able to adapt itself to any game environment. Any setting you can think of has been created for the system. Its creator, Steve Jackson, is one of the most well-known game designers in the industry because of this game.
4 – Star Wars – Based on the movies carrying the same name, the Star Wars Roleplaying Game was first created by West End Games using the d6 system. Eventually it moved on to other companies and saw some play time under the d20 system, and then finally the Saga Edition. It is the premiere sci-fi, or space opera, themed roleplaying game due to George Lucas dominating the minds of nerds all over the world.
3 – Traveller – Not as famous as its other space opera buddy, Star Wars. This game, however, did come out as a roleplaying system before George Lucas’s creation did. Traveller was first created in’77 and has been going strong ever since. The game is definitely considered one of the ‘original’ RPGs.
2 – Call of Cthulhu – A unique entry into this list. This horror-based roleplaying game is based off of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. There really isn’t a popular, comparable game out on the market now. Instead, different gaming companies have chosen to create Call of Cthulhu in a variety of different systems under a variety of different publishers.
1 – Dungeons & Dragons – This game is bar far, the number one pen and paper roleplaying game in the world. It first claimed dominance in the roleplaying niche by being the first game in the niche, before it was a niche! Got it?! Since that beginning, the game hasn’t lost any stride and continues to be the number one best-selling roleplaying game of all time.
This list tends to be a little bit more biased towards older games. If you split up the different editions and counted each edition, for each game, as a separate game, this list would look very different. Overall, it gives you a good idea of the general popularity of specific pen and paper roleplaying games since the creation of pen and paper roleplaying games many years ago.
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