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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 8951765" data-attributes="member: 891">We'd strap a halfling rogue to the end of that pole, and push it through any floating black circles, dark doorways, or whatever.OP wasn't there. Some of us were. It really was "that bad" back then."Roleplay" didn't really start until the early to mid 80s. For most people it started after the Dragonlance novels came out and folks started realizing characters could have names. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (OK they always had names, but now they got personalities too).Remember the hobby started because some guy wanted to run a simulation of French resistance fighters in a German occupied town and needed rules to handle individual soldiers and not units. Then his players showed up, probably stoned, and having just read Lord of the Rings... and somebody asked if his French Commando could be like Gandalf.And here we are. But it was a long road between there and here.Back when I started, the local shop still had a few copies of "Chainmail"...This is relevant to my note about Dragonlance.That was around the time that Dragon Magazine started talking about story rather than publishing yet another 'random wench' table or something to that effect.The hobby started getting pretentious about story, plot, and being an [insert worst possible British accent] 'Actor'... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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