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Kind of curious as to who uses which abbreviation for text role playing. I started on a very large Pokemon forum (that I now coincidentally admin at), and the common abbreviation for it there is RPing, though I've seen RPGing used as well, though that makes me think of video games. Which would you prefer?

Roleplaying, in that, because my friends and I were lazy, we were minimalists and stuck to two letters, simple RPing.

RPGing sounds awkward, and adds another syllable, and just isn't worth the effort.

I typically don't abbreviate it, actually. I usually just say "roleplaying" and have done with it.

i'd use RPing, because to me an RPG would have to include a video game console of some sort, or perhaps a master of the dungeons sitting behind a folded piece of cardboard.

I don't consider the abbreviations to target the same things. RP would be for people involved in something where they play a role other than themselves, which can be spontaneous. RPG has role-playing, sure, but with more depth in one or more aspects, and tends to need at least some development of the environmental and physical aspects (so there's rhyme and reason surrounding the roles that you play). I tend to use RP around here because that's what I get involved with. I'll use RPG if I ever get involved with pen and paper type of stuff.

For the stuff that goes on in Muffin Room or in the less formal games I'd say RPing. For a stricter Pen and Paper game I'd use PnP RPG.

whenever i'm playing a role, it's rping. I can rp in rpgs (usually of the mmo category =p), here at msf, or with myself in my head when i'm trying to be creative.

Unfortunately, I fail at life, and have never played a pen and paper rpg =(

Basically what Nikkou said.

I use RPG for something with a standardized set of rules. RPing inplies the act of playing a role. Around MSF usually you find the latter without much of the former. Back in high school we had more people that did the former with a lot less of the latter. Usually they get called hack & slashers or roll players since they seem more concerned with getting the bad guys they any reall character development (Pc mook anyone?)

RPing to me means you make a character with other people and you all kind of invent the world as you go along. RPGing sounds like it has a structure as to definite rules to play by...

maybe its just me...

RP. RPG just sounds like a video game to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but...

Dante wrote:RP. RPG just sounds like a video game to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but...

That's generally how I think of it too.

To RP is to roleplay, period.
RPG to me generally denotes the game of roleplayage, whether a video game, pen and paper, or whatever. Which isn't really a verb at all, like RP.