Goblinworks Executive Founder
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On a slight tangent, reading about the (hopefully!) upcoming Pathfinder Online MMO, I was reminded of an old, old story in a long-ago Dragon magazine.
The title is "Catacomb", written in 1985 by Henry Melton, who has been kind enough to reproduce it online here. It has aged well, though there are a number of things that went somewhat differently than described (it's from before things like computer mice and hyperlinks became widely known).
I remember when reading that originally, I went "I want to play a game like that!". It took a while before I actually got the chance to play some online game that I liked (first Meridian 59 and then Asheron's Call in my case), and of course playing D&D and other pen-and-paper roleplaying games was oodles of fun as well.
The memory of that story has kept with me, though. Anyone else with good memories of something similar, some blast from the past?
Goblin Squad Member
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This or technically anything slightly resembling the Ultima series will haunt me for the rest of my life.
The Ultima series filled my young head with such wonderment that I sometimes feel ashamed to be an adult. Despite ruining over a decade of my gaming as I searched for a contemporary replacement, the legacy of Ultima became a strong inspiration to why I very recently got into pen & paper RPGs, specifically for the role of storytelling. It's uncanny how the excitement can come flooding back.
Imagination unlocked, girlfriend terrified.