For questions about the entire history of role-playing games: the history of game companies, trends within the hobby, developments of new kinds of mechanics, and gaming's place in culture.

This tag covers questions about the entire history of role-playing games: the history of game companies, trends within the hobby, developments of new kinds of mechanics, and gaming's place in culture.

For questions about a specific game over time see the general game tag for that system, eg. . For questions comparing specific editions of the same system use .