Category talk:Role-playing games

message: I want to add a d20 System category; should this be the parent of :Category:Dungeons & Dragons? If there are no objections in a month or so, I will add it as such. ··gracefool |☺ 02:45, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: d20 System

message: This category is beginning to get bloated and will soon need to be organized into sub-categories, most likely by genre. Any thoughts? — RJH 19:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As a stopgap, I'm going over things and categorizing more strictly under the existing subcategories. That will help somewhat. GRuban 19:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

text: What about a new category called "Published role-playing games"? That would separate the game articles from the more general "List of ..." and for example "Collaborative fiction". The published RPGs could then be further divided if needed. I think I'll do that later today if no one stops me. Jonas Karlsson 15:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Now I've started the subcategory, and will start moving articles. I'll add it as a short-term goal on WikiProject Role-playing games to get some help. I hope no one disagrees. Jonas Karlsson 22:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Published role-playing games" is not a very descriptive name for what the category is being used for. CRPGs and LARPs are both published, although neither of those are included in that category. Furthermore, no unreleased RPGs have WP articles that I know of. A better name for the new subcategory, given its contents, would be :Category:Tabletop role-playing games. -Sean Curtin 00:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, I used "published" to distinguish the articles from the ones on general concepts or role-playing forums and such. I admit I come from a tabletop background and didn't think about CRPGs and LARPs, as they have their own subcategories. The problem with renaming the category that way is that you would have to rename :Category:Role-playing game designers to :Category:Tabletop role-playing game designers, and so on, to be consistent. I'm all for a discussion, as I want it to be correct. Jonas Karlsson 01:01, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  :Category:Role-playing game designers still could include designers of LARPs, couldn't it? I see the dilemma about computer game publishers though, as we don't want to mix it too much. Maybe it would be possible to include a subcategory :Category:Computer and video role-playing game designers in the category which would also be linked to :Computer and video role-playing games? -- Genesis 08:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I think I agree with Sean Curtin - "Published role-playing games" is not a very descriptive name for what the category is being used for. It seems hard to understand what goes where. For example, "role-playing game publishers" go under "role-playing games" but not under "published role-playing games"? And the "concept articles" and "forums" generally discuss ... published role-playing games. I like the idea of categorizing -- including most of the ones that have been made in the last few days - thanks! -- but think this specific category needs re-thinking. GRuban 13:53, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sub-categories?

message: It seems to me that :Category:NRPGNetwork should rather be put into :Category:Computer and video role-playing games. The NRPGN article itself doesn't even include itself in the Role-playing games Category, but articles about various games from the network do. I'm a bit confused about whether it rather counts as an online RPG or as a computer game, but if it's the second, the whole subcategory should be moved -- Genesis 19:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NRPGN

message: I've been going through the list a bit (hope I didn't mess it up too much) and realized that some of the games which got their own subcatory (e.g. Lone Wolf) still are listed in the category itself. Others, like the World of Darkness Games are not. I believe we should decide on one way.
As the WP:RPG plans to make the category smaller, it would make sense to delete those double-entries from the main category -- Genesis 14:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that games with subcategories should be removed from the article list. It should be apparent from the articles that they relate to RPGs, and if someone follows the subcategory link at the bottom of an article they'll see that the parent category is RPGs. Jonas Karlsson 15:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main articles in category and subcategory? 

message: I just noticed that somehow Zoos and Aviaries (as in Places where People go to see wild animals, fish and birds) got included as subcategories in this category (via the subcategories Live-action role-playing games -> History reenactment -> Living museums -> Zoos & Aviaries.) 
While I think that historical museums (in category living museums) could fit into history reenactment, Zoos, Aquaria and Avaries surely do not belong there. 84.148.118.157 00:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like History reenactment -> Living museums is the weak link in that chain.  Best to raise the issue at Category talk:Living museums. Percy Snoodle 09:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I will. 84.148.119.73 20:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoos, Aquaria and Avaries as subcategories of role-playing games?!? 

message: I'm currently working on expanding White Wolf's old World of Darkness game line. While I don't want to do it right now, would it be possible to get a subcategory for either the Storyteller system or for White Wolf? WW could then be further divided, eventually, into old and new World of Darkness games. Urbandale (talk) 12:12, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We've got :Category:World of Darkness and :Category:White Wolf games. There is probably also room for a :Category:Storyteller or :Category:Storyteller system under :Category:Role-playing game systems, since it's not solely limited to the World of Darkness setting (I think Exalted isn't WoD - correct?). --GRuban (talk) 13:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Subcategory?