Role-playing (InstanceAttribute, 8)

<[#ontology [kind attribute] [cats Game Genre]]>
A '''role-playing game''' is a common genre of [[video game]]. Although the name can, when taken literally, refer to basically any game that has characters in it, role-playing games tend to involve lots of numeric [[stats]] including everyone's favorite the [[experience points]] which lead to [[rubberband AI]] and [[level grinding]]. They also often involve items sitting around outside all over the place, and give the impression that [[it's totally okay]] to steal things from people's [[house]]s, though it's absolutely unthinkable to pick locks. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that what usually ends up happening is some (un)lucky typical [[high school]]er becomes the [[hero]] who [[saves the world]], via the unsurpassable [[power of humanity]], from an [[evil organization]], huge [[monster]], natural disaster or all of the above while the [[police]] and [[army]] either sit around doing nothing, are unaware of the otherwise impending [[apocalypse]], or simply don't exist at all. Can you say "[[vigilantism]]"?