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>A tabletop game is limited to (essentially) what you can make with cardboard and flavour text.

Maybe for board games. But for tabletop rpgs, I think it's different.

Games like Dungeons & Dragons are limited more by what you can describe with language and reasonably bookkeep without slowing down the pace of play.

Tabletop rpgs doesn't require any props. People do use rules, character sheets, dice - and anything from sketched maps to grids and miniatures - but essentially tabletop rpgs are less limited than say an author writing fiction.

RPGs are not regular tabletop games. Nobody was talking about Monopoly in that article. The whole point was about pen and paper RPG vs video games.