Gaming genres would be difficult, because that's a very tiny section within the scope of Fanlore, and people who are searching for wiki-style info on games aren't likely to need to search or sort by genre. It should be on the gaming template (and it is), so it's on the page, but odds are, people won't be looking for "info about High Fantasy RPGs" and not wanting to see info about Cyberpunk RPGs.
I'm thinking of gaming systems as "source text," like TV shows; so the main page for a game system would be included in the "Fandoms by source text" page, but if specific modules or sourcebooks for that system got pages, those wouldn't be source texts. (Keep on the Borderlands deserves its own wiki page. So does the Temple of Elemental Evil series. The only sourcebook I can think of that might want its own page is GURPS Cyberpunk, with the Secret Service raid and all that.)
I'm trying to think of how to label RPGs that are specific media tie-ins. Amber, MERP, Call of Cthulhu (special bonus points for resurrecting an obscure literary collection), and all those boxed licensed things from the late 80's/early 90's with three booklets (player guide, GM guide, prepackaged adventure).
Wizards. Stormbringer. Elfquest. Midnight at the Well of Souls. Dr. Who. (I don't have that one.) And the newer ones, which are single-book games... Firefly, Supernatural, Smallville.
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I'm thinking of gaming systems as "source text," like TV shows; so the main page for a game system would be included in the "Fandoms by source text" page, but if specific modules or sourcebooks for that system got pages, those wouldn't be source texts. (Keep on the Borderlands deserves its own wiki page. So does the Temple of Elemental Evil series. The only sourcebook I can think of that might want its own page is GURPS Cyberpunk, with the Secret Service raid and all that.)
I'm trying to think of how to label RPGs that are specific media tie-ins. Amber, MERP, Call of Cthulhu (special bonus points for resurrecting an obscure literary collection), and all those boxed licensed things from the late 80's/early 90's with three booklets (player guide, GM guide, prepackaged adventure).
Wizards. Stormbringer. Elfquest. Midnight at the Well of Souls. Dr. Who. (I don't have that one.) And the newer ones, which are single-book games... Firefly, Supernatural, Smallville.