AZNCHIPMUNK'S PROFILE

*Role-playing video games (RPGs) form a loosely defined genre of computer and video games with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, borrowing much of their terminology, settings and game mechanics.

Role-playing game (RPG): A game that isn't (necessarily) about combat. It is a game where the player plays a character, and goes around pretending to be a real person in a fictitious world. This is also similar to non-video game forms of gaming that involve roleplaying, including play by post gaming and tabletop roleplaying games.

Role-Playing Games (RPGs):

Evolving from pen-and-paper games like Dungeons and Dragons, RPGs are a special type of adventure game that usually incorporate three major elements: 1) a specific quest, 2) a process for evolving a character through experience to improve his/her ability to handle deadlier foes, 3) the careful acquisition and management if inventory items for the quest (i.e., weapons, armor, healing items, food, and tools). Having said that, these games still have many variations and appearances

Role‐Playing
Games in which players create or take on a character represented by various statistics, which may even include a developed persona. The character's description may include specifics such as species, race, gender, and occupation, and may also include various abilities, such as strength and dexterity, to limited degrees usually represented numerically. The games can be single‐player, such as Ultima III: Exodus (1983), or multiple‐player games such as those which are networked. This term should not be used for games like Adventure or Raiders of the Lost Ark in which identity is not emphasized or important, nor where characters are not represented statistically.

Role Playing Game (RPG)

Many other genres are starting to use RPG Elements like statistical abstraction and character-building in their own domains.

This genre is home to many specific tropes.

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I often reference RPGs because 98% of the site is RPG-centric. Of course I realize that RPGs isn't the only thing out there and when I type up topics, yeah, I have RPGs on the mind but it's not like we are having massive game design discussions on RTS path finding mechanics or appropriate challenge scaling in a Match 3 game.

So yeah, we don't cater solely to RPGs but everyone here can relate with RPGs.