Gary Gygax D&D creator dies at 69

[Naethyn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

Gary Gygax, the father of the role-playing game dies at the age of 69

I never heard about him until today, but to think of how much of the gaming industry he changed amazes me.

[Tikker]

you'd never heard of him?

[Naethyn]

Nope, waaay before my time lol.

[Kramer]

i hadn't known his name before, though i dabbled in some d&d back in elementary, 1981-86

let's all pour a little out for our fallen homey errr... wizzy


EVERY role-playing game out there should make an honorary Mob called Gygax....

[Lyion]

He must have failed his saving throw.

[Arlos]

RIP Mr. Gygax.

If not for him, there would be no MMOs, and likely no RPGs, nor a lot of other things in the gaming realm.

Ultimately, by his game, he brought happiness and fun to easily millions of people at this point.

There isn't much better an epitaph you can give someone than "He brought happiness and joy to millions", I don't think.

The world was a better place for him having been here, and is a poorer place for his having gone.

Once again, RIP Mr. Gygax.

-Arlos

[Tikker]

Keeping nerds in the basement since 1972

[Harrison]

I never heard about him until today,

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[Narrock]

Gygax was awesome. RIP Gary

[Durothil Skyreaver]

He must have failed his saving throw.

I lol'd

For anyone who doesn't know who he is they obviously haven't watched that episode of Futurama that he is in enough.

[Narrock]

I think it's pathetic that people who play WoW or EQ don't know who E. Gary Gygax is/was.

[Lyion]

Most young people never did pen and paper, and don't know the backstory of D&D.

[Gaazy]

Never even played DD. Now that I think of it, in RL I dont even know anyone whos played it, or at least ever admitted it

[Lyion]

Thats because D&D hit its stride before you were even born, goob! If you were older, this would cause you painful memories!

Great PA post.

[Shneider]

Let this be a lesson to never ignore your CHA for when comliness checks occur.

RIP.

[Sithos]

Village of Hommlet module all the way up to Lolth in Queen of the Demonweb Pits module. The memories. Also remember the Oasis of something module(s). These were back in the day of D&D or AD&D (2 seperate rulesets sorta). Holy god I'm an old nerd.

[brinstar]

i pen-n-paper'd a bit a few years back, but did not get far enough into it to come across gygax's name

good thing futurama existed!

[Zanchief]

I still play D&D a few times a month.

[Tikker]

whenever I think of D&D I get the urge to re-read the Guardians of the Flame series

(people playing D&D get sucked into an alternate world where they are the characters, yada yada yada)

[Gaazy]

That one site someone posted a whil eback was funny as hell. The one with the made of stories on it about how a D&D game would go?

[Durothil Skyreaver]

whenever I think of D&D I get the urge to re-read the Guardians of the Flame series

(people playing D&D get sucked into an alternate world where they are the characters, yada yada yada)

Which reminds me, I think you have my copies of those still. I need to finish re-reading them.

[Tossica]

Tomb of Horrors = Greatest premade campaign ever.

[Arlos]

Speaking of Gary Gygax tributes and the Tomb of Horrors...

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html


-Arlos

[Kramer]

read this today, sweet article about the man, the legend, the gygax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/arts/ ... 8gyga.html

[Xaiveir]

Gary Gygax, the father of the role-playing game dies at the age of 69

What did he drop?