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litRPG

noun

Etymology

Blend of literary + RPG (“role playing game”).

  1. derived from РПГ
  2. compounded as litrpg — “literary + RPG”

Definitions

  1. A genre of fantasy fiction, which is set in a world resembling that of a role-playing…

    A genre of fantasy fiction, which is set in a world resembling that of a role-playing game (RPG), complete with levelling up, points statistics and game systems; frequently featuring the fantasy races found in RPGs. The protagonists in this genre are commonly awakened/reincarnated/transported/summoned into the game world, or are unable to log-off of a virtual reality (VR) RPG game.

  2. A work of fiction of this genre.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for litRPG. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA