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I take great issue with bandying around the term RP-Nazi when used to describe people who roleplay in roleplay-enforced games. First of all the political implication of the word Nazi, which already presumes you have lost your arguement merely by bringing it up according to "someoneorother's law."
But also because in a roleplay-enforced game, you -are- expected to play a human AS a human, if the documentation of the game world precludes your ability to play him as a half-wolf or half-ogre or whatever.
If the game documentation specifies that humans are ALL born and raised into human communities, then there is no room for interpretation, and this limitation is intentional, and any detraction from it, is a distraction to the roleplaying environment.
If faeries don't exist as a race in a RP-enforced environment, then people who tell you that you're RPing your "faerie human" WRONG, are- right. And not simply "RP-Nazis." You do not have the right to show up in a game and change its rules to suit your own selfish desires.
Just as I would never go to a "No RP allowed" game and try and roleplay, you shouldn't go to a "this is the way the world IS" kind of game and try and do something other than what is available to you given the documentation.
That doesn't make us RP-Nazis. It makes us people who want to preserve the game world in the game we're playing. It also makes you someone who doesn't respect the game world we are trying to preserve.
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