Ken Rolston Article
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He walked into a Science Fiction bookstore in Manhattan one day and found a little pamphlet called Tunnels and Trolls. It was mimeographed. It was 32 pages long. "As I opened it up, it said you could make characters," he said. "I didn't really understand that idea, so I rolled some dice, and I said, 'You mean those numbers model a character in the same way that CRTs [combat results tables] and wargames work?' And I said, 'What a concept!' And then I went to the dungeon, and I said, [delightedly] 'You mean I get to draw on graph paper... and decide what's there... and put little numbers down...?" Eureka, right? "That weekend I went to Vermont with some of my friends and we made dungeons for each other, and here we are, adults, OK? One was Vice President of an insurance company, I was a teacher, and we went into the weeds in the most tragic way. Our wives abandoned us and said we were hopeless." And thankfully he is hopeless still. Although untried, Morrowind promises a beautiful design.
