role-playing games

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/04/10/obit.david.lance.arneson/ Arneson "developed many of the fundamental ideas of role playing: that each player controls just one hero, that heroes gain power through adventures, and that personality is as important as combat prowess," the statement said.

I'm a member of a webgroup which is concerned with the 'Delta Green' setting for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. Delta Green is an X-Files inspired setting in which the players are members of a conspiracy within the US Government to protect humanity from various supernatural threats to...

This was prompted by the "What book do you love but would never choose to live in?" thread. It is a reflection less on Lovecraft's actual stories than on the role-playing game based on them -- Chaosium's "Call of Cthulhu", because the game is more fleshed out, and has more consistent detail and...