The coolest tabletop RPGs based on videogames, from Fallout to Dragon Age

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A close-up of a Pip Boy from the Fallout tabletop RPG.

Videogames have always taken inspiration from and adapted tabletop RPGs—from Vampire: The Masquerade to Cyberpunk to, of course, Dungeons & Dragons. Something most people don’t realise, however, is how much the relationship flows both ways.

This list brings together some of the coolest ones you can play today—take a look, and before you know it you’ll have a new campaign brewing.

Official adaptations

Fallout

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A party of characters moving through the wasteland in the Fallout tabletop RPG.

The game has a substantial library of expansions and adventures, and if you like playing with miniatures, there’s a full range available, because Modiphius also make two Fallout wargames:Wasteland WarfareandFactions.

The same publisher also has TTRPGs based onDishonoredandHomeworld, using the same system and with similarly lavish production values.

Dragon Age

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A party of adventurers fighting monsters in the Dragon Age tabletop RPG.

First released back in 2010,Green Ronin’s Dragon Age TTRPGnever quite had the life and support you’d expect from such a big name, but it’s still a lovely game. There’s an old school charm to its take on fantasy adventure, with some clever new ideas thrown in to make it feel fresh and exciting. The stunt system is particularly good, a mechanic that means every roll to hit in combat has a chance to generate points you can spend on getting cool extra effects like disarming a foe or knocking them prone.

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Though the range of supplements is small, successorFantasy AGEuses the core rules, making it easy to adapt monsters, adventures, and more from that range into your Dragon Age campaign.

If you do fancy running a Dragon Age tabletop campaign, pick upDark Horse’s World of Thedas bookstoo, if you can. They’re not actually TTRPG books, but they’re packed with all the setting lore and adventure inspiration a GM could ever want.

Mutant: Year Zero

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A group of mutants walking through a ruined London in Mutant: Year Zero.

I’m cheating a bit already—Mutant: Year Zeroexisted on tabletops first, and was then adapted into the videogameRoad to Eden. But it’s too good a TTRPG for me to not give it a nod.

Free League makes a whole range of really beautiful and smartly designed licensed RPGs—I particularly loveThe One Ring, and Alien: Isolation fans should check out theAlien RPG.

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Lara Croft and a group of adventurers in the Tomb Raider tabletop RPG.

Destiny

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The Scorch battle suit from the tabletop RPG Nova.

Lightis a wonderfully clever take on bringing Destiny to the table, with fast but tactical gunfights and even randomly generated weapons replicating the loot drops from the videogame. Its sister gameNovacombines elements of Destiny and Warframe into a slick post-apocalyptic setting where players pilot powerful combat suits. In both games, dice are almost entirely taken out of the equation during battles, putting the focus instead on cleverly comboing your attacks and abilities for maximum destruction—recreating the skill-based play of an FPS.

Dark Souls and Elden Ring

A cairn in a desolate landscape in Runecairn Wardensaga.

For something lighter and more modern,Trophy Goldhas a brilliantly grim and surreal atmosphere that specifically really evoked Elden Ring for me when I ran my campaign.

For more on OSR, Old School Essentials, and Trophy Gold, check out our list ofalternatives to D&D.

Persona

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A hacker at a large computer in Voidheart Symphony.

The Persona series' mix of slice-of-life drama and fantastical dungeon-crawling is a perfect formula for a tabletop campaign, and in the absence of an official TTRPG,Voidheart Symphonyis a damn good substitute.

Hollow Knight

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A group of bug adventurers in the unofficial Hollow Knight tabletop RPG.

The Unofficial Hollow Knight RPGis as straightforwardly named as it is impressively exhaustive. Build pretty much any bug-person you can imagine as your character and set off on your own adventure through the ruins—you’ve probably still got time to get a whole campaign done beforeSilksongfinally comes out.

For a free fan project the attention to detail here is really remarkable. It’s wonderfully faithful, but also adds its own new ideas for what magic and mystery could lurk in the setting, and its mix of official art, sprites from the game, and fanart blends together seamlessly.

Also worth checking out isBeetle Knight, which was recently Kickstarted as part of popular crowdfunding event ZineQuest. While it’s not quite so direct an adaptation, it still wears its inspiration firmly on its sleeve (exoskeleton?).

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Fallout#

Dragon Age#

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Mutant: Year Zero#

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Destiny#

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Persona#

Hollow Knight#

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Official adaptations

Fallout

Dragon Age

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Mutant: Year Zero

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Destiny

Dark Souls and Elden Ring

Persona

Hollow Knight

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