Game = Life

I came across an entry in someone elses's blog remarking that they'd stumbled across their first Internet posting, and that got me curious about mine.  I like to joke that I was waiting at the onramp with my bags when they first opened the Information Highway -- well, maybe not, but here's the earliest I can find from yours truly.  This does not, of course, address participation in BBS's in the pre-Internet world.  I post (repost, I guess) it here because, appropriately, the first posting I can find was to ADND-L, on the subject of gamesmastering.  Not only that, but I think it's darned good.  It's fairly long, so behind the ( cut )