rôle-playing game

rôle-playing game (plural rôle-playing games)

1. 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; Nicolas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland, and Virginia Warfield, transl., 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”.