A look at innovative tabletop RPGs inspired by computer RPGs and video games like Dark Souls and Destiny, rather than the other way around.
So many modern-day video games owe their existence to Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop RPG that introduced the idea of exploration, character classes, experience points, and leveling up to the lexicon of video games. In a strange form of reciprocity, a not-insignificant numbers of recent indie tabletop RPGs now owe their existence to video games, taking gameplay mechanics, themes, and aesthetics from franchises like Dark Souls and Destiny and recreating them in a pen-and-paper format.
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