What stops you from RPing?

[Whispers]

o.O isn't just playing makes it RPing itself?

Not necessarily.??Sure, we are playing a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, but we can escape from the Role-Playing obligation just the same as we can not bump others in bumper cars.??Just free-wheeling all through the rink trying to avoid everyone bumping into you.??It's not the idea, but it's still fun!

I don't hop on Whispers and start talking about my super-sick Jurs and how they helped me defeat Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. along with my silent platypus buddy, Perry (Phineas and Ferb ftw).??Just the same, though, I do hop on Whispers and beat monsters silly with those aforementioned Jurs; but not as Whispers.

I do it as me, a guy at a computer controlling a little avatar with his mouse and keyboard clicking fervently here and there until every little sprite is replaced with another sprite to tell me the monster the previous sprite was indicating is now dead.??Data is processed, numbers crunched, another sprite pops above my head letting me know my avatar now has attribute points available to it to allow for allocation to certain fields which will then follow a mathematical formula to give me new numbers I can use to replace even more sprites once I find them and their respective monsters.??

So, you see, it's not RP'ing.??It's math.??

Seriously, though, although this is the Role-Playing genre we don't have to follow that advice and pretend we are who we play.??I am Kris, not the leader of the Saints, not Private Miller in WWII, not a sack boy, I am not Bishop nor any member of Team Rainbow (thank god...I'd hate to tell a woman I'm a secret operative for Team Rainbow...LoL).??I'm not Whispers, Saro, Ankh, Jormungandr, Ryujin Clovenshield, Lee Scoresby, or Waffles.??I just control them.??