I had some nerd friends as a kid, but we never got into anything with dice. We got our role-playing out of our systems with drawing. I'd draw a big castle, and be like "That's my castle bitch" and pass it to my friend, and then he'd draw a giant tank exploding my castle, and pass it back, and I'd draw myself escaping on a flying carpet with all my gold or something, and we'd just do that forever, and we'd both be able to do anything we wanted, so it never ended. We were all about Nintendo and making text games in QBASIC or Visual BASIC, mostly Choose Your Own Adventure type stuff about murdering everybody at our school. (This was pre-Columbine and we were really really young, so this was still like, cute or something.)
And I think the best board game we ever played was:












