In middleschool me and my friends used to play this game where you say a sentence and without pause next person says one. If we ran around a lot it was a very funny one to play while resting on some bench.

After few cycles making up stuff with no pause-time allowed, you would end up with a very random story that sounds like a fever dream. We simply called it “making up stories” with rough translation.

During a session, one friend said “I buy a boat” which we objected because story already established they only have 50 gold from the bird handing out leather hats that they met while falling from sky.

They kept insisting with excuses like “I buy a boat on sale” so I got mad and said “look you can either buy 50 glass bottles of water or save money for ship.”

As soon as they replied they will save I said “while saving money you die of thirst.”

Anyway that’s how we reinvented “making up story with choices.” where I narrated with choices while trying to ruin their story.

Over time choices became less rigid as in “what do you say to this man” and then it slowly evolved into us reinventing dnd from there.