rôleplaying

Noun

roleplaying (usually uncountable, plural roleplayings)

1. (usually) Action in which a person takes on a role (as that of an actor) and acts out being that character.
   • But perhaps the most interesting aspect of roleplaying’s development has been the emergence of the “story-game” movement: a passionate community of independent designers using games to explore new themes and approaches to storytelling.2017 February 8, Owen Duffy, “Monsterhearts: 'A lot of queer youth are made to feel monstrous by people around them'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN...

Verb

rôleplay (third-person singular simple present rôleplays, present participle rôleplaying, simple past and past participle rôleplayed)

1. Dated spelling of roleplay.
   • Looking at Traveller, I’d say offhand that the two most alien major races are the K’kree and the Hivers. But even they can be “explained” (well enough to rôleplay, anyway).1998 December 11, Jeff Zeitlin, “Holy grail of SFRPGs? (re: traveller et al.)”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet)

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