Meaning of role-playing game | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of roleplaying game.

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Examples

“TSR Games manufactures rule books, character records, polyhedral dice, and other accessories for playing the fantasy rôle-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons®.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”.”

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