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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to tabletop 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 the talk page or look at the goals section on this page to see what the focus is at the moment.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

For page view statistics, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games/Popular pages.

Scope

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This project aims to improve the coverage and quality of articles on role-playing games (RPGs). The main areas of interest are Games, Terms, Systems, Designers and Publishers.

The project covers traditional, live action and computer-assisted RPGs. A more specific project, WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons, exists for articles related only to Dungeons & Dragons.

Role-playing video games are outside the scope of this project; they belong at WikiProject VG. An exception to this would be video games based on specific role-playing games, such as those found in Category: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, see WikiProject Board and table games or WikiProject Games.

Goals

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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 old Goals subpage.

  1. Add an infobox with an appropriate image to all 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 at Category:Role-playing game stubs to build full articles.
  5. Improve more role-playing game articles to Good article and Featured article status.
  6. Create new articles and restore deleted articles for notable role-playing game topics.
  7. Play some role-playing games!

Style

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Discussions on style and structure of role-playing game and RPG-related articles were previously held on the old Style 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 the Manual 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.

Sources

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources, Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games/Sources, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons/References

Articles related to role-playing games need reliable sources like any other Wikipedia article—content must be verifiable. Due to the nature of gaming journalism, however, editors writing articles within the scope of this project may encounter problems finding or citing 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 outlet Rascal News commented 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 the Vox 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".
  • "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 to IGN.
  • "That's not to say there aren't people still out there doing good and necessary reporting in the tabletop space—Christian Hoffera at ComicBook.com, Rob Wieland at Forbes and Dan Arndt at the Fandomentals hold down single-person beats, while Wargamer'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, including Rascal—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 September 2024, Bleeding Cool reported that Hoffer was laid off from ComicBook.com and is now a freelance journalist.

Participants

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You can see a full list of participants here.

Clean up list

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Hot articles

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See our Hot articles list for our currently most-edited articles to get an idea of what people are working on right now!

Announcements

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Articles for deletion

Good article reassessments

Articles for creation

Statistics

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Featured articles
  1. Dungeons & Dragons
  2. Hyborian War
  3. Planescape: Torment
  4. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
  5. Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption

Featured lists

  1. List of Changeling: The Dreaming books
  2. List of Mage: The Ascension books
  3. List of Vampire: The Masquerade books
  4. List of World of Darkness video games

Good articles

  1. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
  2. Dave Arneson
  3. Bunnies & Burrows
  4. Chicago by Night
  5. Dragonlance
  6. F.A.T.A.L.
  7. Fall of London
  8. Gary Gygax
  9. Haunts (Wraith: The Oblivion)
  10. Hunter: The Reckoning
  11. Hunter: The Reckoning (video game)
  12. Hunter: The Reckoning – Redeemer
  13. Hunter: The Reckoning – Wayward
  14. Hunter: The Vigil
  15. Icewind Dale II
  16. Kindred of the East
  17. Land of Eight Million Dreams
  18. Legends (play-by-mail game)
  19. Live action role-playing game
  20. Lords of the Earth
  21. MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy
  22. Le Monde des Ténèbres: France
  23. My Life with Master
  24. Necropolis: Atlanta
  25. Neverwinter Nights 2
  26. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
  27. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate
  28. Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
  29. Nobles: The Shining Host
  30. Play-by-mail game
  31. Pool of Radiance
  32. Revelations of the Dark Mother
  33. Shadowrun (1993 video game)
  34. Under a Blood Red Moon
  35. Victorian Age: Vampire
  36. World of Darkness
  37. World of Darkness (video game)
  38. Wizards of the Coast

Former Good Articles

  1. Dice
  2. Forgotten Realms
  3. Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
  4. Shared universe

Did You Know

  1. Actual play (9 September 2021)
  2. Beyond the Stellar Empire (21 April 2020)
  3. Call of Cthulhu (video game) (1 March 2017)
  4. CTF 2187 (16 February 2022)
  5. Dralasite (26 January 2007)
  6. F.A.T.A.L. (February 18, 2021)
  7. Galac-Tac (November 30, 2021)
  8. Gary Con (29 January 2014)
  9. GURPS Steampunk (16 April 2021)
  10. Heavy Gear II (26 November 2015)
  11. Hyborian War (April 25, 2020)
  12. It's a Crime (play-by-mail game) (2 May 2020)
  13. Legends (play-by-mail game) (22 October 2022)
  14. Jennell Jaquays (8 December 2009)
  15. Mazes and Monsters (18 April 2004)
  16. Midgard (game) (13 February 2022)
  17. Monster Island (play-by-mail game) (7 April 2020)
  18. Owl and Weasel (3 September 2008)
  19. Pablo Hidalgo (17 January 2017)
  20. Play-by-mail game (20 January 2022)
  21. Sandra Tayler (4 February 2017)
  22. Torment: Tides of Numenera (25 March 2013)

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 5 28 39
B 2 17 18 39 76
C 3 98 85 324 9 519
Start 1 68 183 1,657 1 19 1,929
Stub 6 20 789 1 8 824
List 8 162 170
Category 517 517
Disambig 7 7
File 494 494
Project 2 2 13 17
Redirect 1 7 93 448 549
Template 22 22
NA 1 3 4
Other 32 32
Assessed 9 194 330 3,101 1,538 36 5,208
Unassessed 7 1 205 213
Total 9 194 330 3,108 1,539 241 5,421
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 16,960 Ω = 5.00

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)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Templates

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Project templates

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Template:rpg-stub (links, talk)
Ten sided die  This role-playing game article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
Stub role-playing game articles, unless a more specific stub notice exists. See the list on Template:rpg-stub.
Template:RPGproject (links, talk)
WikiProject iconRole-playing games Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Role-playing games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of role-playing games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Role-playing gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing gamesTemplate:WikiProject Role-playing gamesrole-playing game articles
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

 This template should be added to the discussion page of articles maintained by this WikiProject.
Template:userbox RPG (links, talk)
Ten sided dieThis user is a member of
WikiProject Role-playing games.
 Your user page - if you want.
Template:RPG (links, talk)
Part of a series on
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Parts of Games
Participants
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WikiProject
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