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The 28 pages that link to Role-playing game, each with the reason it gives.

• Improvisational theatreRelated: Both depend on spontaneous contributions, though games add formal systems and player objectives.

• WorldbuildingRelated: Game settings must support player action, exploration, and meaningful choices.

• Interactive fictionCompared with: Role-playing games often prioritize character systems and rules beyond the narrative choices central here.

• Dungeons & DragonsNarrower topic: Dungeons & Dragons is a foundational example of this broader game form.

• ImaginationBroader topic: It turns shared imaginative construction into structured play.

• FantasyRelated: Fantasy settings provide characters, conflicts, and magic for many role-playing games.

• Fantasy literatureRelated: Fantasy settings and quests became foundational to tabletop and digital role-playing games.

• DiceRelated: Polyhedral dice are widely used to resolve uncertain actions in tabletop role-playing.

• ReenactmentCompared with: Its invented or branching scenarios differ from reenactment's focus on an event already completed.

• Turn-based gameRelated: Many tabletop role-playing games resolve actions through turns, especially in combat.

• Role-playing video gameNarrower topic: The video game form adapts role-playing conventions to interactive digital systems.

• Sword and sorceryRelated: Fantasy role-playing games adapted its adventuring parties, dangerous magic, and monster-filled settings.

• Role-playingBroader topic: Games give role-playing defined play structures, goals, and ways to resolve uncertain actions.

• Experience pointNarrower topic: Character experience points became a defining progression mechanic in many role-playing games.

• Sandbox gameRelated: Role-playing games can offer sandbox freedom while retaining character progression.

• Simulation gameCompared with: Role-playing games center character identity and narrative, though they can include simulations.

• Themed entertainmentCompared with: Role-playing centers on player decisions rather than a designed physical environment.

• Gary GygaxNarrower topic: Gygax helped establish tabletop role-playing as a distinct game form.

• Live-action role-playing gameNarrower topic: Live-action role-playing is a form of role-playing game enacted physically rather than mainly through speech or written moves.

• Miniature wargameCompared with: Role-playing games may use miniatures, but character portrayal and narrative choices are central.

• Pokémon GoCompared with: Unlike many traditional role-playing games, Pokémon Go ties progression to real-world movement.

• Sexual roleplayNarrower topic: Sexual roleplay uses character portrayal and imagined situations without necessarily having game rules.

• Tabletop gameBroader topic: Tabletop role-playing games combine conversation, imagined settings, and structured rules.

• Game (play)Broader topic: Role-playing games turn shared imagination into a structured social activity.

• Furry fandomRelated: Role-play lets participants explore characters and shared stories interactively.

• GamerBroader topic: It is a major game genre whose players may emphasize story and character over competition.

• Incremental gameNarrower topic: Incremental games borrow character growth while making accumulation itself the main activity.

• Text-based gameNarrower topic: Text games often borrow character progression and world simulation from role-playing games.