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.
March 4th, 2008
Written by Alan on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | 405 views |
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FT's Alan on March 5th, 2008
Reason article with a quote from a reader saying
“He wrote the Dungeon Masters Guide, the greatest book ever written”
Tom on March 5th, 2008
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.
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on March 5th, 2008
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.”
FT's tracerhand on March 5th, 2008
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.