Re: Should the "RPG" language be renamed and to what?

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,
Fellow Gygax devotee? I'm also at 33 years and counting.

Back on subject.
I agree that I don't have any issues with searching. Has anyone tried 
searching for RDP? That's another story...

Glenn

On 4/7/2011 4:19 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> I've been playing Role-Playing Games since 1978 (that's 33 years), and
> they've been around longer than that.  While Role-Playing Games might be
> slightly newer than RPG, they're not _much_ newer.
>
> As someone who both plays RPGs and codes in RPG, I have to say this: Not
> once, have I had a problem with the terms getting mixed up. Even by Google.
>
> Thank you for not calling it "Armadingdong."
>
>
> On 4/7/2011 2:39 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> > If only we could go back 50(?) years and get "them" to pick a different
> > name for the programming language. While we're at it, we should get them
> > to make RPG cooler from the get-go. Or we should go back 15(?) years and
> > get "them" to pick a different name for Role Playing Games.