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* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': The universe in which Erin finds herself mirrors typical fantasy game settings, down to some of the creatures, like gnolls and rock crabs, originating in games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Runescape.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' cartoon.

* ''LightNovel/KonoSubarashiiSekaiNiShukufukuO'' A boy dies & goddess reincarnates him into a fantasy world like the games he loves so much.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' has several different character classes, scouts, close-range fighters, long range fighters, magicians, scouts and a MissionControl character class in which each cast member falls. They do this to have a functional team in their quest to reach the top of the Tower, scaling it floor by floor, in other words level by level. Their equipment and basic skills[[note]] most characters have frickin' stat cards in the manual[[/note]] are from F to A with a special S Class and decimal sub units (10-1). And once the Regulars reach the top, they get ranked based on how they performed during their ascension. The best thing about it: [[FridgeBrilliance it takes some time until you notice that]] due to how the concepts are interwoven with the narrative so that they make sense in-universe and contribute to creating a believable world, rather than present themselves as arbitrary and making sense strictly to the outside observer.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. Fuu repeatedly even [[LampshadeHanging comments]] about how Cephiro is like a roleplaying game.

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* The ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' generated reams and reams of FanFic about the various teams and player characters, mostly written by the players involved.
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* The short-lived series ''Series/KindredTheEmbraced'' counts, being a loose adaption ofWhite Wolf's popular [[Main/{{Roleplay}} roleplaying]] game ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''.

Often set in TheTimeOfMyths or MedievalEuropeanFantasy with any technology being LostTechnology or perhaps SchizoTech. Compare RPGMechanicsVerse, when the characters themselves are aware of game mechanics.

* The fantasy series ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' has the college professor GameMaster 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.

* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'':The universe in which Erin finds herself mirrors typical fantasy game settings, down to some of the creatures, like gnolls and rock crabs, originating in games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Runescape.

* ''ComicStrips/{{Nodwick}}'', set in what is implied to be 2nd edition AD&D. The strip started out being a mixture of this and RPGMechanicsVerse ([[RuleOfFunny depending entirely on what would be funnier for the strip of the day]]) before evolving fully into this for its print-based StoryArc.

* The ''WesternAnimation/Jumanji'' cartoon had elements of this, albeit based on a board game rather than a tabletop RPG.

* The setting of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series was born out of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}''. Its two creators, Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont, found the former's structure too restricting and set out to create their own setting using ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}'' rules. Most of the series' first volume, ''Literature/GardensOfTheMoon'', was gamed, as well as -- according to WordOfGod -- many key events up to and including the series' finale.

* ''RecordOfLodossWar'' is a direct adaptation of an actual ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-like campaign played by its creators back in college. Sword World RPG was made out of the Lodoss setting; the first Lodoss light novel was based on the RPG.

* The short-lived series ''Series/KindredTheEmbraced'' counts, being a loose adaption ofWhite Wolf's popular [[Main/Roleplay roleplaying]] game ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''.

* ''MSFHigh'' definitely qualifies, though it's not immediately obvious. Switches to the sister trope when characters become Inspired, a specific class.

* ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe}} morphE]]'' is an adaptation of a MageTheAwakening game and goes out of its way to explain game mechanics in-universe. The end of chapter 2 deals with a character expending all of his mana and needing to be introduced to tass to replenish his supply.

* The setting of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series was born out of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}''. Its two authors, Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont, found the former's structure too restricting and set out to create their own setting using ''{{TabletopGame/GURPS}}'' rules. Most of the series' first volume, ''Literature/GardensOfTheMoon'', was gamed, as well as -- according to WordOfGod -- many key events up to and including the series' finale.

* ''Literature/TheMalazanBookOfTheFallen'' as fitting, the setting was born out of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' gaming.

* The first AlternateUniverse in ''Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai'' was a spoof of the RolePlayingGameVerse.

*** ''DragonLance''
*** ''ForgottenRealms''
*** ''{{Ravenloft}}''

*** ''TruthUntilParadox''
*** ''PennyDreadful''

* The ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' generated reams and reams of FanFic about the various teams and player characters, mostly written by the players involved.

* ''RecordOfLodossWar'' was based in large part on a DungeonsAndDragons campaign. It's pretty obvious to anyone familiar with the game. Pretty much every character falls squarely within the standard FighterMageThief format, along with more subtle things such as Clerics casting spells as prayers (and focusing on HealingMagic and {{Status Buff}}s), as opposed to Wizards learning spells out of books.

* ''RecordOfLodossWar'' is a direct adaptation of an actual ''DungeonsAndDragons''-like campaign played by its creators back in college. Sword World RPG was made out of the Lodoss setting; the first Lodoss light novel was based on the RPG.
* The fantasy series ''GuardiansOfTheFlame'' has the college professor GameMaster 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.

* ''TheMalazanBookOfTheFallen'' as fitting, the setting was born out of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' gaming.
* DavidWeber's TheWarGods series was born out of his personal game.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie "Bender's Game" takes place partly in Cornwood, the setting to a ''DungeonsAndDragons'' game that some of the characters were playing earlier in the movie.

* ''DragonBall''. There are a set of seven PlotCoupons that have to be collected by traveling to AdventureTowns and fixing each town's problem. You've got healing items (HyperactiveMetabolism, especially Senzu Beans), techniques, weapons, armor which alters attributes (Saiyan Armor boosts resilience, Weighted Training Clothes sacrifice agility for more experience points), status ailments (fatigue, heart virus), races with associated abilities (Sayians can transform and get a power boost after a near-death battle, Nameks can regenerate, merge, and create minions at will), ''power levels'', and the currency of the world is called Zeni.

* ''TheSlayers'', though its cosmology is unusually complex. The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Mazoku]] and [[OurGodsAreDifferent Shinzoku]] took OrderVsChaos as the basis for a fairly complex existential-religious debate—their war is a ''theological'' dispute over how best to honor [[{{God}} the Lord of Nightmares]], and whether her creation ([[TheVerse the (multi)verse]]) is a good or bad thing.
* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' is a ScienceFantasy epic about Pacifica, a girl destined to bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the world's destruction]] [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday on her 16th birthday.]] The only thing standing between her and the world that wants her dead, are [[SwordAndSorcerer her adopted brother, Shannon, and their sister, Raquel.]] But as they progress on their journey, [[SaveTheWorldClimax they eventually learn that there's a much bigger threat]] than the Church of Mauser.
* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' takes place in Forcelia, the world created for ''[[Anime/RecordOfLodossWar Lodoss]]''.
** The main cast is comprised of stock rpg archetypes: Louie is supposed to be the mage, but tends to serve as their [[GoodOldFisticuffs "fighter"]] instead. [[TheBigGuy Jeanie]] is the group's swordswoman, [[{{shorttank}} Merrill]] is [[TheSneakyGuy the thief]], and Melissa is the StaffChick.
** They spend much of the series in search of old ruins in hopes of finding treasure to line their pockets. But, in classic rpg fashion, a bigger plot gradually unfolds for our heroes.

* The realm of Lacroa from the ''SDGundamForce'' 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.

* ''[[PornWithPlot Words Worth]]'' is based on the [[HGame H-rpg]] by ELF Corporation, and tells the tale of the century long war between the tribes of Light and Shadow, who each blames the other for the eponymous monolith's destruction. It's even been described as the hentai equivalent of ''Anime/RecordOfLodossWar''.
* ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga'' is a world in which people get together on a regular basis with stock RPG archetypes to invade the giant tower, some merely for treasure, some hoping to reach the top and slay the [[GodIsEvil evil god]] Druaga who created it.