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Independence Day (Deadlands) - Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1997 Character Record Folio - byGreen Ronin Publishing, 2001 Origins Award winner for Best Game Accessory Celtic Age - 2002 Origins Award winner for Best Role-Playing Supplement Codex Arcanis - 2007 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement of the Year Big Damn Heroes Handbook - 2009 Origins Award winner for Best Role Playing Game Supplement Arcanis: The World of Shattered Empires Roleplaying Game - 2011 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Game Runner's Toolkit - 2011 Origins Award winner for Best Gaming Accessory Civil War Essentials Event Book - 2012 Origins Award winner for Best Roleplaying Supplement or Adventure The Guide to Glorantha - 2015Diana Jones Award winner "for excellence in gaming"

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SomeWikipedians have formed aproject to better organize information in articles related totabletop role-playing games. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on thetalk page or look at thegoals section on this page to see what the focus is at the moment.

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This project aims to improve the coverage and quality of articles onrole-playing games (RPGs). The main areas of interest areGames,Terms,Systems,Designers andPublishers.

The project coverstraditional,live action andcomputer-assisted RPGs. A more specific project,WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons, exists for articles related only toDungeons & Dragons.

Role-playing video games are outside the scope of this project; they belong atWikiProject VG. An exception to this would be video games based on specific role-playing games, such as those found inCategory:Video games based on tabletop role-playing games; such articles fall under the scope of both WikiProject Video Games, and WikiProject Role-playing games.

Roleplay simulations (and similar "gamed simulations") are also outside the scope of this project.

For projects with a more general scope, seeWikiProject Board and table games orWikiProject Games.

The following are long-term goals for what the project can work towards. All goals should be clearly defined and ultimately achievable. An archive of previous goals - both reached and unreached - can be found on the oldGoals subpage.

1. Add aninfobox with an appropriate image toall role-playing game articles.
2. Collaborate with other interested users on role-playing game topics.
3. Find as many reliable secondary sources as possible to improve existing articles and help demonstrate the notability of topics.
4. Flesh out the stubs atCategory:Role-playing game stubs to build full articles.
5. Improve more role-playing game articles toGood article andFeatured article status.
6. Create new articles and restore deleted articles for notable role-playing game topics.
7. Play some role-playing games!

Discussions on style and structure of role-playing game and RPG-related articles were previously held on the oldStyle subpage, but if desired can now be held on the WikiProject's talk page.

Articles should follow, as closely as is possible, the guidance at theManual of Style.

References should be added using <ref> tags throughout the body of the article, next to the facts that they are included to support. Where possible, they should use the available standard reference templates.

Books, modules, supplements, boxed sets, etc:	{{cite book}}
Articles in periodicals, or works within an anthology:	{{cite journal}}
Online sources:	{{cite web}}

See the "Statistics" section below for articles that are of a high enough standard to be used as good examples of their category.

Articles related to role-playing games needreliable sources like any other Wikipedia article—content must beverifiable. Due to the nature of gaming journalism, however, editors writing articles within the scope of this project may encounter problems finding orciting sources. Other releated projects maintain lists of discussed sources and additional guidance which may be useful when reviewing a source.

Because the fields of games journalism, research, criticism, and commentary are relatively new compared to similar coverage of traditional media, traditional sources can be somewhat rare. In addition, the simultaneous development and expansion of Internet-based sources alongside the modern gaming scene has led to a much higher degree of exclusive online coverage than is the case with other media. These factors make the determination of reliable game sources a complex issue.

In June 2024, the tabletop gaming outletRascal Newscommented on the shrinking coverage of this topic. They also highlighted specific reporters who provide coverage on role-playing games:

• "Polygon, a video game and entertainment website under theVox umbrella, has been one of the bastions of tabletop RPG news reaching a wide audience beyond the hobby for several years, thanks in large part to the efforts of Charlie Hall".^a
• "The other professional website that fostered amateur talent,Dicebreaker, seems to be poised on the edge of collapse" following the sale of the Gamer Network toIGN.
• "That's not to say there aren't people still out there doing good and necessary reporting in the tabletop space—Christian Hoffer^b atComicBook.com, Rob Wieland^c atForbes and Dan Arndt at theFandomentals hold down single-person beats, whileWargamer's team tackles miniatures, card games, and pop culture at the same time.EnWorld,Bell of Lost Souls and countless other websites serve a dedicated demographic of players and fans instead of a more general audience. All of these are part of a news ecology that benefits the rest, includingRascal—while we choose not to cover every piece of breaking news, we can (and do) link back to these websites when discussing trends or laying out our own opinions".

^a In May 2025,Polygon was sold toValnet, resulting in the layoff of most staffincluding Hall.

^b In September 2024,Bleeding Cool reported that Hoffer was laid off fromComicBook.com and is now a freelance journalist.

^c In October 2025,Rob Wieland passed away.

In 2025, both Charlie Hall andRascal News werenominated for theDiana Jones Award for their tabletop journalism work.

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• 10 Jan 2026 –Wolsung(talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK byPiotrus(t · c); seediscussion

Articles for deletion

• 01 Feb 2026 –Cyberpunk 2(talk · edit · hist) was AfDed byZooBlazer(t · c); seediscussion(7 participants)
• 25 Jan 2026 –List of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications(talk · edit · hist) AfDed byDiscospinster(t · c) was closed askeep byExplicit(t · c) on 01 Feb 2026; seediscussion(7 participants)

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• 04 Feb 2026 –William H. Keith Jr. bibliography(talk · edit · hist) PRODed byCoffeeurbanite(t · c) was redirected toWilliam H. Keith Jr.(talk · edit · hist)

Categories for discussion

• 28 Jan 2026 –Category:Drafts about toys and games(talk · edit · hist) was CfDed byMclay1(t · c); seediscussion

Bot-generated statistics (for articles having the project banner on their talk pages).

Role-playing game articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1			4			5
FL			2	2			4
GA	2	4	6	27			39
B	2	16	20	39			77
C	3	102	85	336		9	535
Start	1	66	182	1,681		34	1,964
Stub		6	20	783	4	414	1,227
List			10	167			177
Category					596		596
Disambig					7		7
File					497		497
Project					17		17
Redirect		1	7	108	582		698
Template					22		22
NA				1	4		5
Other				1	34		35
Assessed	9	195	332	3,149	1,763	457	5,905
Unassessed				23	6	400	429
Total	9	195	332	3,172	1,769	857	6,334
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =19,625			Ω = 5.10

For more information see:

Category:Role-playing game articles by quality

Category:Role-playing game articles by importance

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Role-playing game articles by quality (links to detailed assessment lists)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Role-playing game articles by quality log (bot's assessment statistics logs)

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Template:rpg-stub (links,talk)	Thisrole-playing game article is astub. You canhelp byexpanding it.	Stub role-playing game articles, unless a more specific stub notice exists. See the list onTemplate:rpg-stub.
Template:RPGproject (links,talk)	Role-playing games This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Role-playing games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage ofrole-playing games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can jointhe discussion and see a list of open tasks.Role-playing gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing gamesTemplate:WikiProject Role-playing gamesrole-playing game ??? This article has not yet received a rating on theproject's importance scale.	This template should be added to the discussion page of articles maintained by this WikiProject.
Template:userbox RPG (links,talk)	This user is a member of WikiProject Role-playing games.	Your user page - if you want.
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