Seen in this light, the following experimental RPGs may just be evolutions of the roleplaying entertainment pioneered by Dungeons & Dragons, rather than a complete rejection of the D&D model. Related: RPG Campaign Settings That Aren’t Your Typical Fantasy Worlds D&D has dungeon modules with crashed alien spaceships, strange monsters like mind flayers and gelatinous cubes, campaign settings like Planescape, where belief and philosophy can reshape reality, and so on. There is, however, a lot of weird stuff baked into the D&D brand - the product of its many fictional inspirations and over 50 years of development. It's a system players can use when they want to run campaigns in standard medieval worlds, with goblins and dragons to fight. These surreal tabletop RPGs, in their own ways, push the limits of what roleplaying games can be and what stories they can tell.ĭungeons & Dragons is frequently seen as the default template for fantasy roleplaying. Many tabletop RPGs distinguish themselves from the staple fantasy themes of classic Dungeons & Dragons with unconventional settings and more narrative-focused rulesets, and then there are tabletop RPGs that are simply, utterly weird. The bizarre world-building style of Death Stranding and the reality-warping powers and phenomena of Silent Hill 2are staples of the RPGs below.
