The OP laid it out pretty well (no pun intended). She beat me to the punch since I was planning on making a similar post. My definitions of the various styles pretty much being the same as hers. Except the title of my post was going to be; "ERP, the 800lb gorilla in the room"
ERP to me comes in two flavors; ERP the noun, and ERP the verb.
ERP the noun;Â has become synonymous with Cyber. Basically the days when folks would get on the AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy chat rooms (teen to 35 year olds) have moved over to MMOs. MMOs providing an additional layer of anonymity plus visual elements that chat rooms of old did not provide. Not only can you get your gaming on, but some cyber as well.
The statement; "I'm an ERPer" to me means; "I'm not a role player. I just like to cyber between duties/grinding/boredom." Option 3 in the OP's definition. In my many years of role playing in MMOs this has slowly become the dominant type of so called "Role Play". Often times they will masquerade as legitimate role players but a few clues (blushing at any action you do for example) quickly tips me off. These are the people I have the most problems with. In so far that I now blacklist them or ignore them soon as I identify their intentions. This has caused issues where I've blacklisted a legitimate role player, but that is something I can live with.
Then I have the traditional role player, that is open to an ERP encounter as a facet of their role play. As a serious role player who gets pretty involved with her character (including wanting to add a little grit or spice), I'm ok with this, so long as the hard line between IC and OOC is maintained. I'll go all the way in developing my character to be as dynamic as possible using the lore when able. If I need a little ERP just to spice things up (an example being my castanic character in Tera) then I'm open to it (typically in the form of alluding to an encounter or fade to black).
Unfortunately do to issues with IC bleeding into OOC, I've slowly begun to make characters that don't subscribe to ERP. This isn't a prejudice of mine, but rather I got fed up with players that either took things too far, or suddenly associated me with OP's Option 3 or someone who cybers. As a result I no longer use ERP as a facet of a character but instead write it into the background. "She's feisty, a little naughty, but rather licentious." Would probably be on her background. Or she may be a bit flirtatious when socializing, it really depends on the character. In other words, most of my characters are now PG-13.
In the case of my character in FFXIV, I railroaded her meta into a dead end when it comes to relationships. Although she may take a liking to your character romantically, the criteria for that to happen is extremely narrow. Additionally any form of date would go as far as a dinner or perhaps going out to some romantic place, that being the extent of it.
ERP to me comes in two flavors; ERP the noun, and ERP the verb.
ERP the noun;Â has become synonymous with Cyber. Basically the days when folks would get on the AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy chat rooms (teen to 35 year olds) have moved over to MMOs. MMOs providing an additional layer of anonymity plus visual elements that chat rooms of old did not provide. Not only can you get your gaming on, but some cyber as well.
The statement; "I'm an ERPer" to me means; "I'm not a role player. I just like to cyber between duties/grinding/boredom." Option 3 in the OP's definition. In my many years of role playing in MMOs this has slowly become the dominant type of so called "Role Play". Often times they will masquerade as legitimate role players but a few clues (blushing at any action you do for example) quickly tips me off. These are the people I have the most problems with. In so far that I now blacklist them or ignore them soon as I identify their intentions. This has caused issues where I've blacklisted a legitimate role player, but that is something I can live with.
Then I have the traditional role player, that is open to an ERP encounter as a facet of their role play. As a serious role player who gets pretty involved with her character (including wanting to add a little grit or spice), I'm ok with this, so long as the hard line between IC and OOC is maintained. I'll go all the way in developing my character to be as dynamic as possible using the lore when able. If I need a little ERP just to spice things up (an example being my castanic character in Tera) then I'm open to it (typically in the form of alluding to an encounter or fade to black).
Unfortunately do to issues with IC bleeding into OOC, I've slowly begun to make characters that don't subscribe to ERP. This isn't a prejudice of mine, but rather I got fed up with players that either took things too far, or suddenly associated me with OP's Option 3 or someone who cybers. As a result I no longer use ERP as a facet of a character but instead write it into the background. "She's feisty, a little naughty, but rather licentious." Would probably be on her background. Or she may be a bit flirtatious when socializing, it really depends on the character. In other words, most of my characters are now PG-13.
In the case of my character in FFXIV, I railroaded her meta into a dead end when it comes to relationships. Although she may take a liking to your character romantically, the criteria for that to happen is extremely narrow. Additionally any form of date would go as far as a dinner or perhaps going out to some romantic place, that being the extent of it.
