rôle-playing game
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editNoun
editrôle-playing game (plural rôle-playing games)
- Alternative form of roleplaying game.
- 1980, TUGboat, page 105:
- TSR Games manufactures rule books, character records, polyhedral dice, and other accessories for playing the fantasy rôle-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons®.
- 1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 1985, Amazing Stories, page 24:
- 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.
- 1988, Punch, page 46, column 3:
- They swapped comics and badges, played a rôle-playing game based on D-Day, and followed me around a lot.
- 1991, Arthurian Literature X, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 141:
- Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.
- 1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134:
- 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.
- 2002, Erik Persson, Shadows of Cavernous Shades: Charting the Chiaroscuro of Realistic Computing, Lund University, →ISBN, page 277:
- The first text-based multi-user chat system appeared in 1978, and it was soon to be followed by others, some of which developed into multi-user rôle-playing games and world-building environments, popular mainly with a youthful public.
- 2002, Guy Brousseau, translated by Nicolas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland, and Virginia Warfield, Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 50:
- This definition is not general and examples of games which require a different, appreciably more complex modelling, may be encountered. For example, it is suitable for games of chess or chance but not for rôle-playing games.
- 2011, Roger Johnson, In the Night - In the Dark: Tales of Ghosts and Less Welcome Visitors, MX Publishing, →ISBN:
- In the last quarter of the twentieth century, a good many horror stories were inspired by Chambers’ work, thanks largely to the creators of the rôle-playing game “Call of Cthulhu”.