a mixture of many entertainment and gaming forms - it is a game of "let's pretend" where players take on the roles of adventuring heroes
an interactive exercise where players pretend to be their characters, making decisions regarding their character's actions in order to achieve an objective or tell a story
(RPG) A game that involves Role Playing. You think as your Character and make decisions based on how you think they would react. All sorts of games with Role Playing could be called Role Playing Games but people usually mean Tabletop games. At VE LARP games we have Tabletop and LARP Role Playing Games.
Games in which players adopt different personas and play the parts of different characters, often adventuring with other players on quests. EverQuest and Baldur's Gate are Role Playing Games.