r/rpg • u/Certain-Bumblebee-90 • 20h ago
New to TTRPGs Video explain what is RPG in Chinese
Is there a video explaining the concept of RPG games in Chinese Mandarin? I have a friend who wants to play and has no clue what they are!
I don’t want to show her “the rules”, I simply want her to see a video on her native language that would hype her up for a session. You know, kinda like this video really hypes you up for Troika, but it’s in English:
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u/derailedthoughts 14h ago edited 14h ago
TTRPG in Chinese is known as 跑团. Use this as keyword on YouTube and you could get example results like this https://youtu.be/CKuKkM6Ysas?is=Hjvo2ts0SjIbG2q1
The term means “run a team” or some sort, and seems to be a holdover from raiding in WoW. Somehow it has become a term for running a party in a ttrpg too.
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u/PhrulerApp 🎲 Phroller ~ Delightful Dice Roller 🎲 16h ago
Let me know if you find something like it! I'm curious too!
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u/AgathaTheVelvetLady pretty much whatever 20h ago
I think your best bet would be trying to figure out what the regional term for RPGs are (like how in japan they are called "TableTalk RPGs"), and then search that to see if you can find a resource