One of the earliest video game genres, RPGs began life as simple adaptations of tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. As such, these games carried over a slew of tabletop mechanics to the video game world, such as getting quests from NPCs, upgrading stats, unlocking new weapons and abilities, and the ability to create and customize an original character. As the video game landscape has continued to evolve over the years, the lines defining genres have started to blur, eventually resulting in action/adventure games that contain a handful of RPG elements, just like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.