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>>3093263
Table top game and video games are both types of games, and thus defined by their mechanics. The media are different, and that imposes constraints on what is realizable, but genres can span both video and table games.

Admittedly, most console RPGs have very little to do with their table top brethren in terms of how players can influence stories, however the mechanics of JRPGs and APRGs do use stats in an imitative way and try to convey a story.

However you should not confuse stat management with RPGs.

For instance, NetHack (a type of no-save RPG known as a rougelike) has very little to do with stat management beyond keeping your HP above 0, and is far closer to D&D than any JPRG.