found: Work cat: Wasteland 2, 2019(summary: "a strategy role playing game"; "sequel to 1988's Wasteland, the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG")
found: Planet Mercenary : role-playing game, the fun-toting, maxim-quoting space opera RPG, 2017(a role-playing board game)
found: Star Trek adventures : the roleplaying game : starter set, 2018(braille role-playing game)
found: Oxford English dictionary online, viewed Feb. 12, 2020(role-playing game: "a game in which participants act out roles"; "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"; "a computer game of this kind")
found: Tychsen, A. Role playing games, in IE 2006 : Third Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2006:p. 76 ("all forms of role playing games ... share a group of characteristics, which makes them identifiable from other types of games: storytelling with rules, control of fictional characters, a fictitious reality, usually the presence of a game master (or game engine), and at least one player")
found: Art & Architecture Thesaurus, viewed Feb. 12, 2020(Role-playing game)
