Gary Gygax 1938–2008 RIP

AP story on wbay.com “Gary Gygax died this morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin”

Yes, he’s failed that final saving throw and the Official D’n’D site has a black front page today.

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Alan

5 Mar 2008 10:53

Reason article with a quote from a reader saying

“He wrote the Dungeon Masters Guide, the greatest book ever written”

Tom

5 Mar 2008 11:08

I am sad for the Big G, even though half of all the I Was A Goblin columns slagged him off: without him, no hobby.

mark sinker

5 Mar 2008 13:31

thus say the friendly libertarians at unqualified offerings: GG “goes on a very short list of ‘the people who made the contemporary world‘. There was a World of Warcraft-based pickup-truck commercial over the winter. That’s how much the family tree of fantasy adventure gaming has rooted itself in the culture. You can draw a direct line of causality back from that commercial to Gygax’s realization in the mid-1970s that a lot of people would like to do what he and his friends were doing in their basements if he gave them the chance.”

Elisha Sessions

5 Mar 2008 16:26

Those interested in the metaphysics of D&D may want to pick up the brilliant and bewildering “Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” by Robert Coover. I’m glad the evidence suggests Gygax managed to avoid the fate of that book’s protagonist.

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Scritti Politti ft Sweetie Irie – “Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me”

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 2, Week 15

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