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Role playing (or "RPing") can be described as a written collaboration among people as they each control their own character and interact with the other characters to achieve some sort of objective. Written role play emerged from tabletop role playing games (RPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons and early role playing games. The fictional collaboration model of forum-based role playing is essentially a traditional role playing game without the rigid mechanic of dice and rules. Only a few residual characteristics of forum play-by-post role playing points back to its tabletop predecessors, and that's mainly its turn-based format and the "Game Master" entity responsible for controlling the pace of the role play, progression, and the non-player characters and events that happen.

The adult role playing community has taken the written role play subject and narrowed it into the niche of adult themes and sexual themes. Where a conventional role play could involve hobbits taking a powerful ring to the summit of a volcano, adult role playing involves a dance of foreplay between a man and a woman before they have sex. Or it can involve a forbidden romance, a master-slave dichotomy, or any other adult theme, usually sexual in nature.

Adult role playing goes by various different names that mean different things to different people. The first is "erotic role playing" which generally refers to role playing involving sexual themes. Erotica doesn't have to result in sex. Another way of referring to adult role playing is "mature role playing" which is more indicative of a role play involving adults, not necessarily sex. The third semi-synonymous for adult role playing is "sexual role playing" and often refers to the act of dressing up in costumes and pretending to be someone or something else while you have sex with your partner. In the written role play community, sexual role playing simply means that the collaboration involves sex. Finally, "adult role playing" is an all-inclusive phrase that catches all of the individual role play subsets above.

Despite the emergence of computer role playing gaming, written forum-based role playing is a growing activity, even among the youth. With the increase in role playing interest comes the increase in interest in all of role playing's subsets, including adult role playing. New adult role playing communities start up every day, each developing unique characteristics and community attitudes of their own.