The Next TTRPG (nomenclature)

[GMMichael]

It could just be me... but the majority of tabletop RPGs seem to be played on computers now - not tabletops. Choose your medium: Discord, Roll20, D&D Beyond, Zoom, etc. Take Champions of the Realm: it's played on Youtube and some interesting tablet-device. With props placed on it anyway. Take a theater-of-the-mind game, like Titansgrave (?): all the table does is support dice, which could happen on a device, die tray, or the floor for all anyone cares!

I'm thinking "TTRPG" refers only to something we'd see in Stranger Things now (or Fear of Girls). What do we call today's non-video-game role-playing games? Game Master Role-Playing Games? Human Operated Role-playing Games (HORGs)?

 

[Endroren]

Analog RPG? Digitally Supported RPG?

And while I like the idea for a name that doesn't require TT, I'm going to disagree that most games are online. COVID certainly accelerated how common online play is, but most gamers I know (especially kids) either play in person or want to get back to in person.

Disclaimer: based on nothing but my own observations.

 

[aramis erak]

Digitally supported Tabletop Play.
Or Virtual-table-top play.

 

[GMMichael]

Analog RPG? Digitally Supported RPG?

And while I like the idea for a name that doesn't require TT, I'm going to disagree that most games are online. . .

Well, if WotC and Roll20 have their way, most games will eventually be online. It's easier to collect microtransactions that way. I liked analog RPG, but one meaning of analog includes "non-digital," which is in direct odds with digitally-supported RPG.

Digitally supported Tabletop Play.
Or Virtual-table-top play.

Aha - virtual/table role-playing game: VTRPG. Looks good, feels clunky.

GMRPG gets to the meaning, but it's also long/clunky...

 

[Morrus]

It could just be me... but the majority of tabletop RPGs seem to be played on computers now - not tabletops. Choose your medium: Discord, Roll20, D&D Beyond, Zoom, etc. Take Champions of the Realm: it's played on Youtube and some interesting tablet-device. With props placed on it anyway. Take a theater-of-the-mind game, like Titansgrave (?): all the table does is support dice, which could happen on a device, die tray, or the floor for all anyone cares!

I'm thinking "TTRPG" refers only to something we'd see in Stranger Things now (or Fear of Girls). What do we call today's non-video-game role-playing games? Game Master Role-Playing Games? Human Operated Role-playing Games (HORGs)?

I think we call it D&D in 2024.

 

[Bagpuss]

Even face to face round an actual table games are often supplemented with digital tabletops, apps and digital character sheets.

 

[Hriston]

Discussion roleplaying game (DRPG) because you play it by having a conversation. (CRPG is already taken, so...)

 

[Malmuria]

Well, our videos aren't "tapes" anymore and our "desktop" is virtual. Etc.

 

[GMMichael]

I think we call it D&D in 2024.

You know, this happened in Texas. No one drinks "soda" or "pop" (or soda pop). They drink a "Coke." The unrelated result: I don't go to Texas much.

Discussion roleplaying game (DRPG) because you play it by having a conversation. (CRPG is already taken, so...)

This has potential. I think it needs more weight, though. What else could the D stand for? (Don't even...)

Digitized,
D&D-Like,
Dramatic,
Dungeon-mastered,
Direct,
Draconian...(this might be a good one, since perma-death is more likely in a non-CRPG!)

 

[dragoner]

You know, this happened in Texas. No one drinks "soda" or "pop" (or soda pop). They drink a "Coke." The unrelated result: I don't go to Texas much.

This has potential. I think it needs more weight, though. What else could the D stand for? (Don't even...)

Digitized,
D&D-Like,
Dramatic,
Dungeon-mastered,
Direct,
Draconian...(this might be a good one, since perma-death is more likely in a non-CRPG!)

There is a song by a skate-punk band the Faction called "Let's Go for Cokes". Nevertheless growing up in Texas, I have not returned either. Though I know from selling stuff internationally, that the generic for RPG's seems to be DnD, I mean you say that and they know what you are talking about.