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godoffate asked:

A bit of a "word nerd" question for you: Why are Tabletop Role-playing Games shortened to TTRPG or just RPG when, as far as grammer is concerned, it should be TRG or RG ([Tabletop] [Role-playing] [Game])? Perhaps it's just because of English speaker's love of TLAs?

Couple of issues there:

1. You’re analysing “tabletop roleplaying game” as a unitary phrase, and it’s not. “Tabletop” is a qualifier, to distinguish the subject from, say, live-action roleplaying games, or computer roleplaying games. The root phrase is “roleplaying game”, and that’s what’s being initialised.

2. When forming an initialism from a phrase containing a compound word, there’s no agreed-upon grammatical rule regarding whether the resulting initialism should include the initial letters of both parts of the compound, or only the first one; it’s basically whatever makes for the prettier outcome.

(Now, if you want to ponder something that will really irritate you as a grammarian, consider: the initialism for tabletop RPG is TTRPG, and the initialism for computer RPG is CRPG, but the initialism for live-action RPG is LARP. Why does that one and only that one drop the G? Have fun!)

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trudowoodo

Let’s talk about Apex Legends

A new free-to-play battle royale game. Seems like a dime a dozen in 2019, but there’s a bit more to unpack with this one. EA has been a studio that has made several missteps in the last few years (okay, last SEVERAL years). While their track record hasn’t been stellar, this game from respawn entertainment might be worth our time. It seems like a decent mashup of an overwatch/paladins style roster with a battle royale twist set in a post-apocalyptic setting, which could be an interesting game

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BUT

Let’s talk about the roster so far:

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Overall, while the roster of legends is small at launch, they’re already incredibly diverse. Notice how more than half of them are POCs.

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The first shooter/main DPS character is a black woman.

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The tank-style character is likely of Pacific Islander descent. And even more…

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… is a confirmed Queer character. Overwatch already has Tracer and S76, but it took them awhile after launch to confirm they were gay.

I think Apex sought to create a diverse roster of characaters from the get to, and no matter how you feel about yet another battle royale game, EA, or how well this game performs, we should give credit to studios who strive for more diversity and inclusion in gaming. Doing so may prompt other studios to do the same.

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