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Tabletop role-playing games receive their name from the necessity of playing on a flat surface, such as a table, like many other tabletop games. Most tabletop role-playing games require the use of dice for action resolution, and require the players to be able to read and write on the character sheets that record information pertinent to their characters. Note that not all tabletop games require either of these; a number of games use cards or other random or semi-random means of conflict resolution. A rare few tabletop role-playing games do not use any kind of character sheet or record; these games can usually be better classified as storytelling games.

Unlike live-action role-playing games, the characters' actions are not acted out by the players; they are simply related to the gamemaster by the players, and vice versa. Tabletop role-playing games generally have a much lower content of playacting or theatrics; a player is expected to present the role of their character without actually being required to act it out. Tabletop games usually do not use propIn the performing arts, a prop (the common short form for the more formal property is anything that is carried by a performer during the performance. The term comes from live-performance practice, especially theatrical methods, but its modern use extendss, except where they might be used to interact with the players or the plot; for example, a deck of TarotTarot Tar oh) is a system of symbolical images, which is used primarily for divinatory purposes. Also it is used as tool for reflection on one's personal life, as well as an aid to meditation. Tarot is normally embodied in a deck of 78 cards, similar to a cards might be used to add to the moodA person's mood is a sustained affective state, consisting of a combination of emotions. In normal functioning, moods are largely adaptive to external events. A mood disorder (such as clinical depression) is a pronounced maladaptive mood. Similarly, seaso of gameplay as well as suggesting additional plot twists to the gamemaster. However, some tabletop role-playing games, particularly those of a tacticalTactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. This applies specifically to warfare, but also to economics, trade, games and a host of other fields such as negotiation. Tactics and Strategy a bent, use miniature figureA miniature figure also known as a miniature or just a mini is a small figurine commonly used in role playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons''. Minis help visualize where characters are during combat, such as which way each character is facing, ws to respresent the characters; these games often resemble small-scale wargamesWargaming is either A hobby in which one or more players simulate battles or entire wars, or The model or computer simulation of possible scenarios in military planning, also called warfare simulation. See also defense contractors, or The full-scale rehea.

Unlike computer role-playing gameComputer role-playing games CRPGs , often shortened to simply role-playing games RPGs , are a type of video or computer game that traditionally use gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. Modern RPG games encompass a wide range ofs, there are multiple players involved who are face to face with one another; tabletop role-playing is a socialThe adjective social implies that the verb or noun to which it is applied is somehow more communicative, cooperative, and moderated by contact with human beings, than if it were omitted. That is, it implies that larger society has played some role in defi activity, more so than online role-playing games.

For a list of role-playing games, including tabletop role-playing games, see list of role-playing games