hawkeyefan
Legend
I’ll say G2. I was going to say G3, but after thinking about it a bit, I’m far more likely to change mechanics to fit story than I am to change story to fit mechanics.
I think using the terms role-play and game-play as anything other than synonymous is highly problematic. If you are playing the game, you are by definition role-playing. To say otherwise is a synecdoche, by which I mean it's to confuse the whole of the game for one of its parts.
There are varying degrees and style of 'role-playing' though. Do you mean role as in getting into a personality, or role as in performing a function? Or a balance of the two? I consider it to be primarily the former, and the latter to be more 'game' playing.
I've seen people define role-playing in terms of performing a function within a party, without considering personality. eg My function is party thief, that's my role.
I've said I consider roleplaying to be about playing a personality rather than a function, if somebody thinks/does it differently it's up to them.