See rôle-playing game on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1980, TUGboat, page 105:",
"text": "TSR Games manufactures rule books, character records, polyhedral dice, and other accessories for playing the fantasy rôle-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons®.",
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"ref": "1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1985, Amazing Stories, page 24:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1988, Punch, page 46, column 3:",
"text": "They swapped comics and badges, played a rôle-playing game based on D-Day, and followed me around a lot.",
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"ref": "1991, Arthurian Literature X, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 141:",
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"ref": "1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2002, Erik Persson, Shadows of Cavernous Shades: Charting the Chiaroscuro of Realistic Computing, Lund University, →ISBN, page 277:",
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