Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Term
Also TTRPG
Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) are collaborative story games played through conversation. One person—the Game ManagerGame Manager TermGame Managers (GMs) are the people who run the game for the Players at a table.—describes the world. Everyone else—the PlayersPlayer TermPlayers (capital ‘P’) are the people at your table who control Scribes.—describe what their ScribesScribe TermScribes are the characters Players play in the game (often called player characters, or PCs, in other TTRPGs). do. Then you use rules, dice rolls, and your imaginations to decide what happens next.
Source Player Codex, Introduction