Zander
Explorer
I don't visit the WotC site that often so only just noticed they've started calling D&D a "TRPG". The 'T' for "tabletop" is superfluous. D&D is an RPG. No specification is required.
Any related class of game such as so-called computer RPGs or live action RPGs, CRPGs and LARPs respectively, require elaboration but the version played with paper, pencil and dice doesn't.
The danger of specifying the 'T' is that it provides a licence to related classes of games to co-opt the term "RPG" without specification. For example, I saw a poster for a CRPG on public transport around the time the LotR films were in the cinema claiming to be "the first RPG set in Tolkien's Middle Earth". What they really meant was the first CRPG. I believe the first published RPG officially set in Middle Earth was MERP.
Wizards shouldn't encourage that way of thinking.
Apologies if this has been discussed before in the forum. I couldn't find an existing thread.
Any related class of game such as so-called computer RPGs or live action RPGs, CRPGs and LARPs respectively, require elaboration but the version played with paper, pencil and dice doesn't.
The danger of specifying the 'T' is that it provides a licence to related classes of games to co-opt the term "RPG" without specification. For example, I saw a poster for a CRPG on public transport around the time the LotR films were in the cinema claiming to be "the first RPG set in Tolkien's Middle Earth". What they really meant was the first CRPG. I believe the first published RPG officially set in Middle Earth was MERP.
Wizards shouldn't encourage that way of thinking.
Apologies if this has been discussed before in the forum. I couldn't find an existing thread.