"rôle-playing game" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "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®.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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, page 141",
          "text": "Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134",
          "text": "Enterpreneurs, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Erik Persson, Shadows of Cavernous Shades: Charting the Chiaroscuro of Realistic Computing, Lund University, page 277",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Guy Brousseau, translated by Nicolas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland, and Virginia Warfield, Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 50",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roger Johnson, In the Night - In the Dark: Tales of Ghosts and Less Welcome Visitors, MX Publishing",
          "text": "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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        }
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        "Alternative form of roleplaying game."
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  "word": "rôle-playing game"
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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®.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Arthurian Literature X, D. S. Brewer, page 141",
          "text": "Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134",
          "text": "Enterpreneurs, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Erik Persson, Shadows of Cavernous Shades: Charting the Chiaroscuro of Realistic Computing, Lund University, page 277",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Guy Brousseau, translated by Nicolas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland, and Virginia Warfield, Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 50",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roger Johnson, In the Night - In the Dark: Tales of Ghosts and Less Welcome Visitors, MX Publishing",
          "text": "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”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of roleplaying game."
      ],
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