Doom: The Next Chapter is both an RPG, and a tabletop strategy game based in the Doom universe. It is a great example of how role playing mechanics can carry over to miniatures gaming.
Role Playing Games
Aketon One Page RPG Based On Chainmail
Aketon is a set of one page (two sided) rulesbased on the classic proto RPG “Chainmail”
Super Eight Footage Of A 1980s D&D Session
For the sake of pure nostalga, here’s a (silent) Super 8 film of a Dungeons and Dragons session from the 1980s. It looks a lot like the sessions I remember.
World War II Role Playing Game
The World War II RPG by Mikko Kauppinen is designed as a simple game that is deadly to low level characters, but that allows more powerful characters to do very cinematic actions. Characters have three attributes and a number of skills. Action resolution is done by rolling 1d6, subtracting the result from the relevant attribute and adding one. If the result is more than zero, the character has succeeded, and bigger numbers mean greater successes.
Mass Combat Rules For Role Playing Games
The Wrath of Zombies blog has a set of free RPG rules for Mass Combat. While written for the author’s own Thundarr style game, they are applicable to a wide variety of rules and settings.