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{{trope}}
A world straight out of a [[Role Playing Game]]. Some are adaptations of either [[Role
Will use some, if not most, of the [[Role Playing Game Terms]], but how many obviously depends on the writers.
Often set in [[The Time of Myths]] or [[Medieval European Fantasy]] with any technology being [[Lost Technology]] or perhaps [[Schizo
All [[RPG Anime]] fall into this category, naturally, but not all [[Anime]] set in a Role Playing Game Verse are [[RPG Anime]]. Compare [[RPG Mechanics Verse]].
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Compare with [[RPG Mechanics Verse]].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Bastard!!]]''
* [[
* ''[[Dragon Pink]]'', much to Pink's chagrin, as the player playing the game sets her character class to ''slave''.
* ''[[Elemental Gelade]]''
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. Guilds? Check. Mission board? Check. Stat improving armor sets? Check. [[Expansion Pack World]]? Oh yeah.
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* ''[[Legend Of Crystania]]'', which also takes place in Forcelia.
* ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]''
* The first [[Alternate Universe]] in ''[[
* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Fuu repeatedly even [[Lampshade Hanging|comments]] about how Cephiro is like a roleplaying game.
* The realm of Lacroa from the ''[[SD Gundam Force]]'' metaseries. Based on a one-shot gag short from the original ''SD Gundam OAV'' series that featured the protagonists of the first three Gundam shows as characters in an RPG.
* The anime and manga series ''[[MAR]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Neo Angelique]]''
* Magicus Mundus in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
* ''[[Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' is an [[Older Than They Think|older example]] than many entries here.
* ''[[The Tower of Druaga (
* ''[[Persona 4]] [[Anime of the Game|the Animation]]'' keeps the date-change and character-stats screens from the actual game, giving it this feel.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/1/Forged-Destiny Forged Destiny]'' re-invents the cast of ''[[RWBY]]'' as natives of such a world.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' is a direct adaptation of an actual ''[[Dungeons
* The fantasy series ''[[Guardians of the Flame]]'' has the college professor [[Game Master]] of a gaming group turn out to be a wizard from a fantasy world that operates under similar rules. He sends his players through once they've reached a certain point in the game to see if they can bring peace to his world.
** Or at least kill the enemy wizard who banished him to our plane.
* Novelizations of Role-Playing Game Settings fall here.
** ''[[Dungeons
*** ''[[Dragonlance]]''
*** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]''
*** ''[[Ravenloft]]''
** ''[[
*** ''[[Literature/Inherit The Earth|Inherit The Earth]]''
*** ''[[Truth Until Paradox]]''
*** ''[[Penny Dreadful]]''
*** ''[[
*** ''[[
*** ''[[
*** ''[[
*** ''[[
*** ''[[
*** ''[[Mummy:
*** Various crossover novels
** ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' as fitting, the setting was born out of ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Many webcomics take place in a more or less literal Role Playing Game Verse.
** ''[[
** ''[[The Order of the Stick
** ''[[Goblins
** ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[MSF High]]'' definitely qualifies, though it's not immediately obvious. Switches to the sister trope when characters become Inspired, a specific class.
* ''[[
** ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
* ''[[
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