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* The Nineties saw ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]]'' as '''the''' generic RPG in Poland, as opposed to ''D&D''. It is not so nowadays, though, with the appearance of new editions of ''D&D'' and a new generation of gamers. That is, gaming folk still will recognise it, but it's [[Glory Days|not as dominant as it was]].

* Thanks to having been for quite a long time among the few foreign RPGs translated and published in great numbers, ''[[Call of Cthulhu (Tabletoptabletop Gamegame)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' is quite well-known in Italy together with the aforementioned ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay''. As with the Polish example above, this is mostly true with older gamers nowadays.

** France also has had a long love affair with ''[[Call of Cthulhu (Tabletoptabletop Gamegame)|Call of Cthulhu]]'', in this case ''despite'' the fact that lots of foreign RPGs have been translated into French since the 80's at least. It seems to still attract new gamers there as well, as recently, a publisher there released over a dozen superlatively translated, beautifully refurbished [[Crack is Cheaper|(if expensive)]] hardcover volumes of the rulebook and many of the most iconic adventure compilations and setting books, including a 30th-anniversary edition of the main rulebook ''as well as '''[[Delta Green]]''' and its rare-as-hell-in-English expansion, '''Countdown!!!'''''

* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' also had, and largely still has, an enormous popularity in Italy, with several running LARPs and a widespread rejection of the [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]] system in favor of the old game. Since Vampire was the only old WoD game to be translated, this leaves its sister games (''Mage'', ''Werewolf'' et cetera) pretty much unknown.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', while still decently popular in its homeland of Britain, really took off in the United States, completely displacing Games Workshop's previous works in much of the American tabletop wargame market and providing fuel for large numbers of books and a number of computer games, most with American authors and produced by American companies, respectively.