Role-Playing Game

Role-Playing Games, or RPGs, are a type of game played through imagination and improvisional acting.

The typical RPG is played by a number of players and a Game Master. The players control the actions of fictional characters in a setting of the Game Master's devising. They work together (usually) to overcome various challenges and adventures presented to them. Play can sometimes involve a board or battlemap, especially in the case of combats, but is not required.

In taking on the roles of their characters, the players speak for the character and make all of the character's decisions. If the result of a character's action is in doubt, the Game Master or Player may roll dice or use some other random number generation system to determine the result of their action.

RPGs exist for almost every genre of story telling and is essentially a cooperative story telling exercise.


 * Fantasy (Dungeons & Dragons)


 * Science Fiction (Traveller, Star Wars)


 * Super-Hero (Champions)


 * Horror (Vampire the Masquerade, Call of Chuthulu)


 * Secret Agents (Danger International, James Bond Role-Playing Game, Top Secret)

Gateway Comics has its earliest origins in a series of adventures run from 1990 to 2007 using the Champions Super-Hero Role-Playing Game put out by HERO Games.