Doesn the phrase “role playing game” apply to other kinds of games, such as computer and video games, online games, and Live Action Role Play (LARP)?
There are many hobby games that are easily confused with each other, and that have some connections to each other. Games which are most properly called role-playing games (RPG) are normally played with pencils and paper, rolling dice and talking about the imagined adventures while sitting at table or comfortably in someone’s living room, as described above. They have also been used as play-by-mail (PbM) or play-by-e-mail (PbEM) games in much the same fashion as one might play a chess game with a friend far away. Such play has also given rise to computer role-playing games and console role-playing games (collectively CRPG), the many Nintendo and other games in which players take characters on quests frequently involving fighting monsters and finding treasures. This in turn has developed into online text-based games known as multi-user dungeons (MUD) and multi-user shared hallucinations (MUSH), in which sometimes hundreds of players from around the world interact through the Internet, cu
