Clearing up the TTRPG tag

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nonamethanks said:

There's a lot of weird stuff in this tag, like cosplays or sexual roleplay. Feels like we should have much bigger tags for a lot of what's being dumped in there.

Probably, and I was actually thinking of proposing a deprecation BUR after the rename one passes, to get the ball rolling on that.

magcolo said:

Tabletop game

And what is this tag for? I see that some playing tabletop rpg posts have this tag removed

I removed tabletop game from those playing tabletop rpg posts because, to me, tabletop game looks like a "I dunno what this game being played is, but it looks like it'd be played on a table" tag. post #2104385, post #4800573, and post #7639971 are very clearly neither tabletop RPGs nor board games.

Board game currently defines itself as "A tabletop game that involves moving pieces around a board according to a set of rules." Of Battleship (game)'s 20 posts, only two are tagged with it. So clearly we don't have a tag for these sorts of games, unless we want to make tabletop game that tag, despite its sort of ambiguous name, or want to dump them under board game.

Damian0358 said:

I removed tabletop game from those playing tabletop rpg posts because, to me, tabletop game looks like a "I dunno what this game being played is, but it looks like it'd be played on a table" tag. post #2104385, post #4800573, and post #7639971 are very clearly neither tabletop RPGs nor board games.

Board game currently defines itself as "A tabletop game that involves moving pieces around a board according to a set of rules." Of Battleship (game)'s 20 posts, only two are tagged with it. So clearly we don't have a tag for these sorts of games, unless we want to make tabletop game that tag, despite its sort of ambiguous name, or want to dump them under board game.

Tabletop game technically includes board games, tabletop RPGs, card games and other games played on a tabletop, but clearly here it's used as "tabletop games other than board games, TTRPGs and card games", because they're the minority. It just needs a wiki that reflects that.

There is also no way of tagging the physical tabletop RPG game itself. It's a bit strange how we have a specific playing tabletop rpg but no tabletop rpg, given that it's usually the opposite (e.g. board game + playing games, instead of playing board game). I don't mind them being tagged as board games.

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