About Japanese Role Playing Games

Japanese role-playing games (often initialized to JRPGs) made their first appearance during the mid 1980s. Today, there are thousands of Japanese-designed games as well as several translated games. Traditional role-playing games are referred to as pen-and-paper RPGs, paper-and-pencil RPGs or tabletop RPGs in English-speaking countries, and are called table-talk RPG, TTRPG or TRPG in Japan to distinguish them from the video role-playing game genre.