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{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game}}
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{{Infobox RPG
|title = ''EverQuest Role-Playing Game''
|image = EverquestRPGCover.jpg
|caption = Cover of ''EverQuest Role-Playing Game'' Player's Handbook.
|designer = [[Owen K.C. Stephens]] and others
|publisher = [[Sword and Sorcery Studios]]
|date = August 19, 2002 (1st edition)
|genre = [[Fantasy]]
|system = [[d20 System]] variant
|footnotes = 
}}
'''''EverQuest Role-Playing Game''''' is a [[role-playing game]] based on the ''[[EverQuest]]'' [[fantasy]] [[massively multiplayer online role-playing game]] (MMORPG). The game was published by [[White Wolf, Inc.|White Wolf]] under its [[Sword and Sorcery Studios]] imprint. ''EverQuest Role-Playing Game'' shares many things with the MMORPG, such as setting, available [[race (fantasy)|race]]s and [[character class|classes]], monsters, spells, and items.

==History==
''EverQuest Role-Playing Game'' was first published in summer 2002 under [[Wizards of the Coast]]'s [[Open Gaming License]] using a system nearly identical to the [[d20 System]], but was not d20 System branded because it included self-contained rules for character creation and advancement.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}

In early 2005, a major revision in the form of the ''EverQuest II'' Player's Guide was released, which deviated even further from the d20 System.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} A notable example is its approach to classes. There are only four [[character class]]es, called "Archetypes", available to starting characters. Each archetype has several more advanced classes, called "Classes" and "Subclasses", associated with it; these work much like [[Prestige class (Dungeons & Dragons)|prestige class]]es in standard d20 System games. Characters can freely mix the four basic archetypes, but may only take the more advanced classes associated with ''one'' of the archetypes.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}

The EverQuest II Player's Guide did not contain rules for magic, though a free download at Sword and Sorcery Studio's website did give basic spells for low-level characters. Almost a year later, on March 1, 2006, the EverQuest II Spell Guide, which included the core rules for magic and a full spell list, was published in PDF form only.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} 

Freelancers and customer service representatives have stated that future ''EverQuest'' RPG releases, if any, will have statistics for both the ''EverQuest'' and ''EverQuest II'' games, rather than being exclusively for one or the other.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} As of 2011 no further products in either line have been released, and all mention of the ''EverQuest'' property have been removed from the White Wolf website.

==Volumes==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Title !! Release date<ref name=Show>{{cite web |url=https://everquestshow.com/2019/09/19/everquest-the-pen-and-paper-role-playing-game |title=Everquest - The Pen and Paper Role-Playing Game |website=The EverQuest Show |access-date=October 12, 2020 |date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> !! Game
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| ''EverQuest Role-Playing Game Player's Handbook'' || {{dts|2002-08-19}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Monsters of Norrath'' || {{dts|2002-11-05}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''EverQuest Game Master's Guide'' || {{dts|2003-02-17}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Realms of Norrath: Freeport'' || {{dts|2003-04-14}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Befallen'' || {{dts|2003-04-28}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Realms of Norrath: Everfrost Peaks'' || {{dts|2003-06}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Al'Kabor's Arcana'' || {{dts|2003-09-01}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Temple of Solusek Ro'' || {{dts|2003-09-22}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Luclin'' || {{dts|2002-12-01}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Monsters of Luclin'' || {{dts|2004-01-19}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Solusek's Eye'' || {{dts|2004-02}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Realms of Norrath: Forests of Faydark'' || {{dts|2004-02-02}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Realms of Norrath: Dagnor's Cauldron'' || {{dts|2004-05-24}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Plane of Hate'' || {{dts|2004-08}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''Heroes of Norrath'' || {{dts|2004-11-01}} || ''EverQuest''
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| ''EverQuest II Player's Guide'' || {{dts|2005-02-28}} || ''EverQuest II''
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| ''EverQuest II Spell Guide'' || {{dts|2006-03-01}} || ''EverQuest II''
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017204900/http://secure1.white-wolf.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=42 White Wolf Publishing, Inc. page]

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