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The terms rp and rpi are truely becoming a gimmick. Look at almost any of the new mud posting and over half will claim being 'rp' or 'rp enforced' and some of the more ambious ones will even claim role play intensive.
Then there are those who play on muds like Armageddon and want their own term, so they don't have to sift through hundreds of muds claiming it to hook you only to be another hack and slash. Is it so wrong for muds to have some form of label for the more realistic rp experience driven games?
Then there are the non-arm rp muds (yes some exist) who see the people asking for their own term as elitists because they would seek to separate themselves from those muds. I won't name names, but based on the arguement on this thread, I think it's pretty plain whom I'm talking about.
My point? I think there should be a separate term because those 'rp elitists' will never come to accept muds that have certain features they feel don't fit. IT doesn't matter how much one tries to distort the terms, it ultimately comes down to what people are looking for.
I think this whole issue wouldn't be an issue if not for the term rp being the hip thing to tack onto any game. It's like they make the claim to draw people in, but in truth anyone looking for a certain kind of experience will or won't go a certain way reguardless of the claims once they enter the mud.
Perhaps another term wouldn't solve it. However arguing for the sake of justifying your own game or unjustifying someone else's game from a term is silly. There is defaintly a fair group of people looking for a certain kind of RPI mud, whom might benifit from using a term that would set them apart. But it would be up to them to coin it I think
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