Pen and paper

Pen and paper (PnP) refers to the regular (non-computer) Dungeons and Dragons game. The term refers to the ancient tools that were available to early roleplaying mankind. The "pencil" was a long piece of wood that contained a staining material called graphite. Early roleplaying man would scrape the "pencil" across the surface of "paper". "Paper" was the term used to describe an early form of Random Access Memory, consisting of pressed tree pulp that was smooth and designed to easily absorb the scrapings of pencil graphite.

These pen and paper implements were eventually replaced by computer-driven input consoles running applications like Neverwinter Nights 2.