This game literally invented the genre of the RPG. Invented in the seventies by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson using variations on the rules from the medieval battle game "Chainmail", this game still gets play in justabout every edition yet published.
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Top 10 Tabletop RPGs
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Vampire: the Masquerade
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Eoin Maloney
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If Dungeons and Dragons is the Superman of tabletop RPGs, then Vampire is its Hellboy. Released in the nineties by White Wolf Publishing, this game exemplified dark games, and the horror RPG genre wouldn't be the same without it. Fun fact: White Wolf actually sued the makers of the "Underworld" films, because the vampires and werewolves they depict
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GURPS
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Eoin Maloney
7 years ago Report
Created by Steve Jackson Games in 1986, The Generic Universal Roleplaying System was developed with the express purpose of being able to play literally any kind of character, from gunslingers to wizards to, no joke, sentient muffins! GURPS optional rules for any kind of game, and may be one of the most flexible tabletop RPGs ever published.
