rôle-playing game

A form of roleplaying game — A type of game where one or more players assume the roles of characters (usually one each) to interact with a fictional world either defined by themselves or through the moderation of a neutral judge (usually referred to as the game master).

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Meanings

nounrôle-playing game (plural rôle-playing games)

plural rôle-playing games

  1. datedDated form of roleplaying game.

    Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.

    1991, Arthurian Literature X, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 141
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    TSR Games manufactures rule books, character records, polyhedral dice, and other accessories for playing the fantasy rôle-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons®.

    1980, TUGboat, page 105

    Today, with the sword and sorcery surge that we are experiencing, (what with books, magazines and fantasy rôle-playing games), we seem to be set for a Conan-inundation, if we aren’t already in the midsts of one.

    1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020, →ISBN

    Other than that, I liked the idea one of your readers had for passing out a free copy of the magazine with rôle-playing games.

    1985, Amazing Stories, page 24

    They swapped comics and badges, played a rôle-playing game based on D-Day, and followed me around a lot.

    1988, Punch, page 46, column 3

    Enterpreneurs,^([sic]) realising that they could profit from the sale of comics alone (or in the company of sports cards and rôle-playing games), had begun to establish comics speciality shops.

    1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134
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