"roll-playing" meaning in English

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          "text": "1996, Jean Carrières, Dream Pod 9 Inc, Heavy Gear Rulebook\nThis method is the easiest but it lends itself to \"roll-playing\" instead of roleplaying since it focuses much of the players attention on dice and bookkeeping tasks."
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          "ref": "2017, Marie Brennan, Dice Tales: Essays on Roleplaying Games and Storytelling",
          "text": "After all, this is role-playing, not roll-playing—a distinction commonly made when this question comes up. It's kind of painful when the actual dialogue and behavior is wildly inadequate, but the dice say that no, that was the most persuasive argument you ever heard.",
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