related to RPGs?
There is also a popular type of hobby game called the collectible card game (CCG) or trading card game (TCG). These were created by people in the role-playing game industry, and often have many of the fantasy or science fiction trappings of such games (sometimes even being based on the same settings and ideas). Collectible card games are a more detailed development of children’s card games like Old Maid and Authors (which in turn are based on strategy card games such as gin, canasta, and whist), with a major difference: they are not played with a standard deck, but rather each player brings his own cards from an official list of legal cards, building his own “deck” to use against his opponents. Many critics of RPGs or of games like Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon confuse the two types of games, calling Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon role-playing games. Although these games are part of the hobby game industry which includes RPG’s (plus traditional board and both board and miniatures
