I started doing role play more in the early 2000s after Morrowind, but I did kind of roleplay when I was a wee little shit of 13/14 on Battle.net or BattleNet or whatever they called the Diablo/Diablo 2 internet thing.

I RPed a big dumb ass Warrior/Barbarian.  Like a "Grog encounter new mysterious man with glowing eldritch orb.  Grog smash man with shiny ball until ball all wet and slippery."

I probably used the word eldritch back then too.  Was way into horror novels.  Stephen King, that guy who wrote Necroscape, Clive Barker, Lovecraft.