Elliquiy Role Playing - RP, Stories, Games, Forums and Chat

According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the word's been around since the seventeenth century: 1656 to be precise.

It strikes me from time to time that there are two distinct concepts of what we 'do' on the forums. A lot of us talk about the games that we're in, and use various concepts from the world of roleplay as entertainment that developed from the original pencil-and-paper roleplaying games.