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Role-playing games let you assume the role of a protagonist, customizing their abilities, equipment, and appearances. Through exploration, dialogue, and strategic combat, players navigate worlds, uncover lore, complete missions, and level up their characters.

Using only symbols available in the "ascii" set of characters

Utilizing content created by algorithms rather than human made content. Often utilizes a "seed," a relatively small string that is used to control the randomization algorithm that generates the entire world.

Near infinitely replayable games that usually feature, random generation, perma-death, and brutal difficulty. 

Science-fiction. Commonly including things like aliens, advanced technology, and settings of outer space or distant planets. 

Also known as TTRPG, tabletop role-playing games are tabletop games when you play a character within a set of rules. Typically actions are determined by speech and checked for success via dice rolls.