Role-playing video game

A video game genre in which players control characters whose abilities, choices, and progress develop through a structured fictional world.

Experience point: A numerical reward used by games to measure character progress and often unlock levels or abilities. Experience points commonly turn completed quests and battles into character growth.
Tabletop role-playing game: A game in which players portray characters in a shared fictional setting, usually guided by rules and a game master. Tabletop play supplied character progression, imagined worlds, and role-based rules for early digital adaptations.
Avatar (computing): A digital representation through which a person acts in a virtual environment. The controlled character is the player’s embodied presence in the game world.
Action role-playing game: A role-playing game that emphasizes real-time combat and direct player control. It combines character progression with action-focused combat.
Character class: A template that defines a character’s abilities, role, and development options in a game. Classes shape how characters contribute to combat and which abilities they can acquire.
Dungeons & Dragons: A fantasy tabletop role-playing game first published in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Its rules and fantasy adventures strongly influenced early computer role-playing games.
Role-playing game: A game genre centered on portraying characters and making choices within a rule-governed fictional setting. The video game form adapts role-playing conventions to interactive digital systems.
Tactical role-playing game: A role-playing game centered on strategic battles played across maps or grids. Its battles foreground positioning and unit decisions over reflexive action.
Skill tree: A branching structure of abilities that players unlock as a character develops. Skill trees make long-term character specialization visible as linked choices.
Dungeon (1975 video game): An early computer role-playing game created at the University of Illinois in the mid-1970s. It adapted Dungeons & Dragons-style exploration and combat for a computer environment.

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