role player vs trickster

role player and trickster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
role player	Yes	No	No	No
trickster	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trickster is a hypernym of role player; that is, trickster is a word with a broader meaning than role player:

Other hypernyms of role player include beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker.

role player (noun)	trickster (noun)
a theatrical performer	someone who plays practical jokes on others
a person who makes deceitful pretenses	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts