The Adult/Games category covers activities that are meant to entertain the participants and that are governed by a specific set of rules. Games are usually competitive, the players are either competing against each other, or against one or more simulated players, or against tasks set by the game rules. There are usually ways to win and lose a game spelled out in the rules.
This category covers sites about nearly any sort of game, including Computer Games, Roleplaying Games, and Gambling Games, and most other activities that refer to themselves as "games". However, Recreation, and Shopping sites belong in separate categories.
Adult/Recreation is for entertaining tasks that may not be competitive, without a way to absolutely win or lose, and not governed by a specific set of rules.
Adult/Shopping is for sites primarily devoted to selling items, including games, but not primarily to describing them or enabling play.
Only very general sites, applicable to nearly anything Adult/Games-related, should be accepted in the Adult/Games category. Please submit sites focused on specific kinds of games to the appropriate subcategories.
Erotic computer games. These usually show sexy pictures, the better you play the game, the more of the picture you get to see. There are also interactive sex simulations, or other variations.
Computer games played in your Web browser are listed in http://dmoz.org/Adult/Games/Internet/Online/, all these have to be downloaded.
If your site carries or discusses software for non-handheld devices as well, please submit to the Computer category instead.
This category has been set up to contain adult games which must and can only be played on the Internet.
Also look at the categories for Computer Games. Many of these games can be played online now.
Games played on the Internet (Web, IRC, MUDs, etc). Please submit computer and video games playable online to the Computer Games category.
A Role Playing Game, or RPG, is a formalized way of playing "Let's Pretend"; "improvisational acting without an audience," or cooperational storytelling.
This category covers what are usually called Tabletop Roleplaying Games, because they are often played sitting around a table, with books and dice. Each Player controls a Character in an imaginary world, while the Game Master controls everything else in the world. There are rules, often involving dice rolls, charts, and paper and pencil record keeping, deciding the effects of Characters' actions: "I try to hit the Goblin with my sword - do I get him?"
The first, and still most popular, roleplaying game is TSR's Dungeons and Dragons, set in medieval fantasy. Other popular games systems include White Wolf's dark modern Vampire, FASA's cyber-fantasy Shadowrun, Hero Games' superhero Champions, Chaosium's 1920s horror Call of Cthulhu, Steve Jackson's generic system GURPS, and Palladium's mixed setting Rifts. Live Action involves dressing up and acting out your character's actions, in any setting or rules system.
There are hundreds of variations on all the above, and each group usually comes up with "house rules" of their own. Many even evolve into independent Free RPGs