With other players you can share losses, have others admire your accomplishments or you can simply hang out and have a good time together. Types of roleplaying games C ategorizing roleplaying games is difficult, I'll leave that to those technically minded. The first is done by connecting players to a computer program somehow. The players type in commands to tell their character what to do, and they see what the other characters in the same location do and say. The second is done usually with a board or card-like game.
Players come together to play a game that involves a fair amount of rolepaying.
The on-line version has the advantage that you are very much involved first person. It's awfully easy to ignore that you really are sitting behind a keyboard and typing a conversation. The off-line games have the advantage that you are actually meeting people. Often that adds a certain flavour to games, and it alows you to have fun together outside the game as well as inside it. Here a group, and sometimes it's a huge group, is brought together and they're set a task or quest.