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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9318885" data-attributes="member: 4937">Agreed, but I'm aware of no examples of this occurring or recorded prior to the RPG revolution in the 1970s.  Note that we do get this happening in proto-form in wargames going back into at least the 1920s, but those weren't part of free form roleplaying but "mock combat".  You had the external to the fiction resolution mechanic, but not the free form imaginative play.  And at the same time you had free form imaginative play, but not the external to the fiction mechanic.  What you did have in say 1950s or 1890s was:A: "I shot you!"B: "No, you didn't!"A takes out sling takes out slingshot and fires an acorn at B to simulate the combat with real weapons: "See I did so shoot you!"</blockquote>