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role-playing, n.
Brit. |ˈrəʊlˌpleɪɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈroʊlˌpleɪɪŋ|
[‹ role n. + playing n., after role-player n.]
1. A technique involving the acting out of roles in a particular situation or scenario, as used in psychotherapy, education, training, drama, etc. (cf. psychodrama n. 1); the acting out, adoption, or performance of a particular role, either consciously (esp. as a technique in training, psychotherapy, etc.) or unconsciously (in conforming to an established social role or to expectations of conventional behaviour in a particular position or situation).
On the occasional confusion of this term with role-taking see Walter Coutu in Amer. Sociol. Rev. (1951) 16 180–7.
1943Sociometry 6 291 He can easily stop the psychodrama long enough to..make a suggestion..without disrupting the spontaneity and reality of the role-playing. 1952Group Psychotherapy 5 73 (title) Role playing as a method of academic education. 1956Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 62 198 The Norwegian-American farmers in Illinois suspected I was a Communist spy..: and recently, in interviewing water-dowsers in rural American communities, I have faced equally difficult..problems in role-playing... This problem in role-playing differs from that faced by an anthropologist doing research in another culture. 1963B. Friedan Feminine Mystique vii. 169 The point of role-playing, a technique adapted from group therapy, is to get students to understand problems ‘on a feeling level’. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 575/5 Role-playing is perhaps the true subject of the modern novel. 1995Independent 22 Mar. 23/5 The ambiguities of S&M role-playing were beyond the police's comprehension.
2. spec. Participation in a role-playing game; the playing of (a role in) such games.
1980People 14 Jan. 67/2 Next comes role-playing. Adopting a mythic-sounding name.., a player heavy with intelligence might choose to be a wizard. 1982J. E. Holmes Fantasy Role Playing Games i. 23 Since fantasy role playing is a game, beginners often ask what they have to do to win. 1988Weekend Austral. 16 Apr. 10/2 Wargaming and roleplaying..use painted model soldiers and medieval monsters to relive the campaigns of history or invent space battles. 1995J. Miller Voxpop i. 26 My mates in Essex are really into role-playing.
Compounds. General attrib.
1943Sociometry 6 287 One of the most effective techniques..is the utilization of several variations of the role-playing or psychodramatic situation. 1963B. Friedan Feminine Mystique vii. 171 The girls take those bits and pieces from Freud and Mead, the sexual statistics, the role-playing insights, not only literally and out of context, but personally. 1983Listener 10 Feb. 8/3 Such was the role-playing skill of the actors and the nature of the problem posed that each of the doctors..conducted the consultation as if it were the real thing. 1991Compute Sept. 101/1 (advt.) New PAL role-playing engine lets you control one character while commanding four others. 1995Edge Nov. 60/2 Death Keep. The follow up to last year's lukewarm 3D roleplaying title Slayer, SSi's Death Keep utilises an updated polygon engine which generates a markedly more impressive 3D game world. 1997J. Seabrook Deeper v. 137 My teenage nephew..had found a home in a role-playing chat room on AOL.
role-playing game n. a game in which players take on the roles of imaginary characters who engage in adventures, typically in a particular fantasy setting overseen by a referee; (also in later use) a computer game of this kind.
1976J. M. Ward (title of game) Metamorphosis Alpha: fantastic *role-playing game of science fiction adventures. 1981White Dwarf Oct.–Nov. 8/1 With role-playing games, the position is different. The rules explain how to generate characters. 1996K. Hafner & M. Lyon Where Wizards stay up Late vii. 205 A small circle of friends at BBN had gotten hooked on Dungeons and Dragons, an elaborate fantasy role-playing game in which one player invents a setting and populates it with monsters and puzzles, and the other players then make their way through that setting. 2001Wired Feb. 76/1 Currently, only first-person shooters support 3Q's technology, but the real killer app is likely to be the coming generation of multiplayer role-playing games. |