I think it might be a british-ism that I adopted because I thought it made more sense than "roleplaying game". Card game, board game, role game. Tahdah.
I seem to remember that "tabletop rolegame" is also used fairly frequently; I'm not sure what the distinction is. Maybe between those you play seated around a table, and those you play dressed up in chainmail and prancing around on some northern English heaths? (I don't do the latter: I have friends who do, but I, frankly, never really saw much point to it.)
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Date: 2006-11-27 20:43 (UTC)I seem to remember that "tabletop rolegame" is also used fairly frequently; I'm not sure what the distinction is. Maybe between those you play seated around a table, and those you play dressed up in chainmail and prancing around on some northern English heaths? (I don't do the latter: I have friends who do, but I, frankly, never really saw much point to it.)