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Classic players of role-playing games (RPG) form a speech community due to the fact that they use a sociolect of their own making. This subtype of national language, contingent on a particular group, has been built upon social ties resulting from common interests. The variant is based on the colloquial language style merged with the role-playing game terminology (official phrases), sociolectal lexemes (non-official) and their foreign equivalents (mostly English). The structure of the sociolect studied here allows for classifying it as a professional sociolect since it is characterized by the preponderance of professional and communication resources of language over primarily expressive ones. However, it is necessary to emphasize that various types of sociolects are separated with fuzzy borders and have vague semantic scopes.