Well, yeah, that happens in the U.S. too. "D&D Night" doesn't necessarily have to be D&D. Though, someone would get a completely different reaction from me if she asked "do you want to play some Symbaroum?" instead of "do you want to play some D&D?"
Do you like Kipling?
I'll bite. What does Kipling have to do with Symbaroum?
I'd propose to do the other way round: keep TTRPG as a name to point out the analog/play-at-the-table and make up a new defintition for the "digital" forms of gaming.
Well. All acronyms are unnecessary. Some are almost pointless, like the ones that require the same number of syllables to speak as the original phrase. Many are useful though, and clarifying RPG is useful to someone like myself, because I play both computer- and discussion-role-playing games. Each type has dramatically different requirements for play and methods of play, so it's nice for a web search or a group meeting to distinguish which type is being referenced.
What if my computer sits on a table? Does that make Ultima Online a TRPG? Zoom is not a virtual tabletop, but we can still use it for one type of RPG, but not the other.
Things are a lot simpler if you don’t include “computer RPGs” as a type of RPG. Because they’re not. We shan’t see an actual computer RPG this side of true artificial intelligence. Ultima etc are a different sort of game.
