Role Playing Game

Role Playing Game can either refer to a game of relatively pure fantasy (and this largely through physical acting or alternatively through text and language) or a game mainly enacted through video gaming software.«Collins English Dictionary»: role-playing game in British English.NOUN. A game in which players assume the roles of fantasy characters. [R. Nov, 2019.] Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
«Britannica» Role-playing video game, electronic game genre in which players advance through a story quest, and often many side quests, for which their character or party of characters gain experience that improves various attributes and abilities. [R. Nov, 2019.]
Formally "The genre is almost entirely rooted in TSR, Inc.’s Dungeons & Dragons (D&D; 1974)". 
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