When did the "C" drop from CRPGs and when did "TT"RPG spring up?

[Thomas Shey]

I must be old, I still use CRPG as a term. I only sometimes use TTRPG if I absolutely need to define that I mean a table top game, most of the time I don't need to though.

I'll use either or both if the context seems ambiguous.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Are we using "tatterpigs" yet? Because we should, seriously

 

[Bedrockgames]

I think TTRPG is largely just to make online searches easier: otherwise you get a billion computer RPGs

 

[Reynard]

Are we using "tatterpigs" yet? Because we should, seriously

I hereby second the official pronunciation of TTRPG be "tatterpigs."

 

[Bill Zebub]

Related question is when RPGs became mainstream enough that if you said "I like roleplaying games" out loud people stopped thinking you meant something kinky and instead assumed you mean computer games.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Related question is when RPGs became mainstream enough that if you said "I like roleplaying games" out loud people stopped thinking you meant something kinky and instead assumed you mean computer games.

I think that's probably still a coinflip...

 

[uzirath]

Related question is when RPGs became mainstream enough that if you said "I like roleplaying games" out loud people stopped thinking you meant something kinky and instead assumed you mean computer games.

Steve Jackson Games doubled down when they called their adventure-fantasy GURPS variant "The Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game." I choose my words carefully for the blurb for the youth summer camp I run every summer.