oh , start with yourself . love yourself . no one can love you as much as you can . but i get you , it feels nice to know there is someone who cares and is there to support you . dogs are nice . they don ' t judge . <| sep |> That ' s not true at all . You could have a video game that duplicates the general player experience of an RPG Having adventures and getting stronger without any of the statistics , mechanics , and rules of a tabletop RPG . You could have health based on detailed simulated damage model to the characters ' body , rather than the abstraction of HP . You could have combat based on real time actions , active attack , movement and defense , rather than the abstraction of tohit dice rolls , 6 s rounds , etc . You could have getting stronger based on individual aptitudes improved by use , rather than the abstraction of levels . As for magic , the sky ' s the limit . How about magic based on manipulation of physical properties in the simulation ? Eg . you can magically manipulate the four elements . You can attack with fire in a variety of ways heat up the floor underneath your enemy and then conjure some water to cause a superheated steam explosion conjure a ball of earth , heat it into lava , and then launch it with a gust of wind at your enemies , etc . No spells , no casts per day , mana points etc . There ' s plenty of RPG video games that use very little from tabletop RPGs .