KILL TROLL WITH SWORD! Hilarious: “I had kind of a funny start roleplaying. When I was 8 or 9 I was playing Zork on my uncle’s new Atari 800 with a couple friends, and we dug it. At some point we wanted to play it but we weren’t at my uncle’s house, so I volunteered to ‘be the computer.’ We even played it text-based! I’d write a description, pass the notebook, my friends would read it and write their actions, I’d write the results. We kept that up for a while, actually, several sessions, before we figured out that we could just talk instead.”

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