roleplaying game

See also: role-playing game, role playing game, and rôle-playing game

English

Alternative forms

• role-playing game
• role playing game
• rôle-playing game

Noun

roleplaying game (plural roleplaying games)

1. (games) A type of game where one or more players assume the roles of characters (usually one each) to interact with a fictional world either defined by themselves or through the moderation of a neutral judge (usually referred to as the game master).
2. (video games) A type of computer game where the player takes the role of a character or party, normally lacking tests of physical skill and including more story-telling and narrative aspects than traditional action games.

Synonyms

• (game where players assume the role of characters): RPG

Derived terms

• massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• RPG (whence CRPG, JRPG, WRPG)

Translations

type of game in which the players assume the role of a character

• Catalan: joc de rol (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 角色扮演遊戲／角色扮演游戏 (gok³ sik¹ baan⁶ yin² yau⁴ hei³), 角色活動／角色活动 (gok³ sik¹ wut⁶ dung⁶)

  Mandarin: 角色扮演遊戲／角色扮演游戏 (zh), 角色扮演游戲／角色扮演游戏 (juésè bànyǎn yóuxì), 角色活動／角色活动 (juésè huódòng)

• Danish: rollespil n
• Dutch: rollenspel (nl) n
• Esperanto: rolludo
• Finnish: roolipeli (fi)
• French: jeu de rôle (fr) m
• Georgian: როლური ვიდეო თამაში (roluri video tamaši), როლური თამაში (roluri tamaši)
• German: Rollenspiel (de) n
• Hungarian: szerepjáték (hu)
• Interlingua: joco de rolo
• Italian: gioco di ruolo m
• Japanese: 役割演技 (やくわりえんぎ, yakuwari engi), ロールプレイ (rōrupurei)
• Norwegian: rollespill n

  Nynorsk: rollespel n

• Polish: gra fabularna f
• Portuguese: RPG (pt) m
• Romanian: joc de rol n
• Russian: ролева́я игра́ (ru) f (rolevája igrá), разы́грывание роле́й n (razýgryvanije roléj)
• Spanish: juego de rol m
• Swedish: rollspel (sv) n

See also

• LARP
• game master
• in character
• out of character
• computer roleplaying game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia