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+ | <div style="font-size:240%; text-align:center">'''Welcome to the RPG Museum!'''</div> |
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+ | We are a wiki about [[role-playing game|tabletop role-playing games]] (RPGs), and our database includes information for RPG [[player]]s, [[GM]]s, and [[:Category:Design|designers]]. Other RPG wikis focus on homebrew content or specific games or settings, but we want to be a resource that can be useful for everyone in the RPG hobby. That's why our pages cover gaming advice, [[:Category:Theory|theory]], [[:Category:Publishing|publishing]], [[:Category:History of role-playing games|history]] and [[:Category:Culture|culture]] without the homebrew content. |
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+ | [[Help:Editing|Anyone can edit]] pages on RPG Museum, and we'll never reach our full potential without contributions from RPG fans like you! [[RPG Museum:New material|We need new content]], so we especially appreciate when people [[Special:CreatePage|add new pages]]. Do you see something missing, like a [[:Category:Role-playing games|game]], a [[:Category:Publications|book]], a [[:Category:Creators|creator]], a [[:Category:Terms|concept]]? You can help by adding a page for it! We'll thank you later. |
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− | * ''Encyclopedic information'' – Much like Wikipedia, RPG Museum aims to develop well-researched articles on RPGs new and old. Because of RPG Museum’s narrow focus, there is not any such thing as a minimum level of notability. It would be great to cover absolutely every RPG in existence. Similarly, any sort of respectable game site or any verifiable information on a blog or publisher site is fair game as a source. For games that are too niche to maintain their own Wikia of minutiae, RPG Museum can function in a similar fashion for RPGs as Wookipedia does for Star Wars and Memory Alpha does for Star Trek. |
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− | * ''Collaborative journal-style articles'' – RPG Museum is also looking for balanced and well-researched articles on all sorts of role-playing game topics, written in a somewhat formal (but fun and interesting) style. If you’ve ever visited TVTropes.org, you have some idea of the sort of article: medium-length pieces that tie together lots of ideas for the benefit of beginners and experts alike. While not explicitly a how-to site, some articles may take the form of helpful guides. |
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− | * ''Guides to information'' – As much as possible, RPG Museum aims to connect people to quality resources, such as RPG-focused web sites, forums, and blogs. The organization of such information is a WIP, but is vital to our mission to keep our content current and user-friendly. |
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− | : We now have a forum on [http://rpgtalk.yuku.com Yuku]. |
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Revision as of 21:34, 6 March 2020
We are a wiki about tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), and our database includes information for RPG players, GMs, and designers. Other RPG wikis focus on homebrew content or specific games or settings, but we want to be a resource that can be useful for everyone in the RPG hobby. That's why our pages cover gaming advice, theory, publishing, history and culture without the homebrew content.
Anyone can edit pages on RPG Museum, and we'll never reach our full potential without contributions from RPG fans like you! We need new content, so we especially appreciate when people add new pages. Do you see something missing, like a game, a book, a creator, a concept? You can help by adding a page for it! We'll thank you later. <createbox> width=32 break=no buttonlabel=Add a new page </createbox>
You can learn more about the RPG Museum itself at RPG Museum:About!
Contents (all pages)
- See also
What's new on RPG Museum
See more recent changes...
What are RPGs?
A role-playing game or RPG is a sort of creative social activity in which the players use game rules and their imaginations to create and play the roles of characters, who will be the protagonists in the fiction that the players will create together. This fiction is usually created through a semi-structured conversation, with players taking it in turns to say what happens and using rules to resolve situations of conflict or uncertainty about what happens next.
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Other English tabletop RPG wikis from Fandom | ||
General RPG wikis: | RPG Museum • RPG Wikia (homebrew) • RPG Graveyard • O.G.R.E.s | |
Dungeons & Dragons: | Dragonlance • D&D Lore (canon) • Dungeons & Dragons (homebrew) • Dungeons & Dragons 4e • Eberron • Forgotten Realms • Spelljammer | |
Other specific RPGs: | Ars Magica • d20 NPCs • GURPS • Legend of the Five Rings • Pathfinder • Rifts • Shadowrun • Star Wars d20 • Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy • White Wolf (World of Darkness) |