Roleplaying

Worldforge is a project aimed at developing 'A Complete Gaming System for Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying.' More information is available at www.worldforge.org . Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

'cxtable' (stands for Cyber-X-Table, but I prefer xTable when referring to it) aims at creating a peer-to-peer-ISH network to be used primarily as the 'Card Table' for old-time roleplaying in a new-time world... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Java tools for building a web based encyclopedia of articles for a roleplaying campaign from XML source files, including schemas and XSLT stylesheets for transforming the XML into HTML and PDF formats. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

During those intense roleplaying sessions it is all too easy to lose time browsing through the big, hardcover books looking for spell descriptions. SpellbookMaster makes it easy to find spells fast. Search spells by name, class, level, domain and more. Create spell collections by dragging spells... Platforms: Mac

llarion is a free, graphical fantasy game that focuses on true roleplaying. Come and join the world of Illarion. You'll fully emmerse yourself in this world, as though your character is a real being. All of the characters around you will behave as real people in this independent, mysterious... Platforms: Mac

Iris2 is a 2D/3D game client for the popular Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game "Ultima Online". Adding a third dimension to the well-known Ultima Online World, Iris2 allows the player to navigate the gaming environment just like any modern 3D RPG and still retain the unique roleplaying... Platforms: *nix

Spiderweb Software, makers of the award-winning Avernum and Geneforge series, happily announces the release of Avernum 4, the long-awaited, all-new continuation to the Avernum series. This epic fantasy-roleplaying adventure returns you to the enormous underworld nation of Avernum, whose shadowy... Platforms: Windows

Furcadia is the magical world where the animals have learned to walk upon two legs and speak. Create your own customizable avatar and start exploring the friendly, graphical environment with rich, player-driven content. Our established online community grew over years and has become a second home... Platforms: Windows

MUCKmangle project is a small script to make HTML from MUCK logs. MUCKmangle takes the log from a Roleplaying session from a MUCK (Multi-User Chat Kingdom) and produces a HTML report for inclusion in a log archive, etc. MUCKmangle is a small, messy CGI script in perl to convert horrible, ugly... Platforms: *nix

Nazghul project is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) engine. Obviously, the emphasis is not on graphics or first-person squad-based stealth action. If you like roguelikes or the top-down, 2d, turn-based CRPG's that disappeared in the early 90's then this is for you. Platforms: *nix

Role Playing Tools extends the pen and paper role playing tabletop to the computer by providing a die rolling tool with a full expression language including Javascript functions, tabbed rolling bars, quick summation features, and the ability to save and restore sessions. There is also a client... Platforms: *nix

Stumpele project is a battle engine for IRC channels. Stumpele is a role playing IRC bot based on the idea of "beng the battlebot", rewritten in PHP. The goal is to provide a full battle engine for IRC channels which is flexible and easily extendable. Limitations:. Get Stumpele the... Platforms: *nix

Puzzle Pirates is an online game in which you play a Pirate character in an ocean world. Hundreds of your fellow player Pirates swarm these Isles and Sea-lanes. For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg. Pirates can... Platforms: *nix

TinyMUSH 3 project is a descendant of the TinyMUD server, and thus supports multi-user communication in a text-based "virtual world" format, via TCP/IP connections (presumably, but not necessarily, Internet connections). The end result looks much like text adventures games of the mid-1980s.... Platforms: *nix

Quest of Yipe is a role-playing and adventure game, the first of three in a series. The town of Yipe is trapped by catastrophic landslides, but the townspeople have found a cave that may lead to the rest of the world. It's up to you to lead the town to safety through the cave. This is no small... Platforms: Mac

EverQuest is a real-time 3-dimensional massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).Welcome to the world of EverQuest« for the Macintosh, a huge 3D massively multiplayer fantasy roleplaying game. Prepare to enter an enormous virtual environment, an entire world with its own diverse... Platforms: Mac

Triangle Wizard is a free hack 'n slash game featuring retro graphics and a wealth of content. You are a wizard (of a selectable profession, e.g. Necromancer, Shadow Adept, Sunmage, etc.) and need to travel through 100+ dungeon levels and many different environments in order to defeat your... Platforms: Windows

Kudos is a turn-based game that puts you in control of a single character and manages their life from age 20 to 30. You get to pick their friends, their job, and how they spend their free time, but there is a catch! You can only choose to do one thing each day, or two at the weekends. This makes... Platforms: Windows

ErlyMUD is a small MUD server written using the Erlang/OTP libraries. The aim is to have solid support for exploration and roleplaying, within a concurrent, highly fault-tolerant environment. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A codebase for the construction of 3d online virtual worlds. Includes everything you need to make your own multiplayer online roleplaying game. All game rules are contained in plugins which can be written in easy scripting languages such as Python. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux