RIP Gary Gygax

The creator of Dungeons and Dragons has passed. It was a game that forever changed gaming, from board games to a nerd obsession. All the things that followed, like myriad computer games, Wizards of teh Coast card games, etc. owe a huge debt of thanks to Gigax.

I was never big into D&D but I played it for about a year in the early 80s. I had the books, with their horrible artwork. And I even bought some of those lead figurines and dice.

A friend of mine just informed me he played it around 1974 when you had to by xeroxed copies of the DM manual because they weren’t printed yet. And they had to make their own eight-sided dice out of Styrofoam

I’m sure some of you have your own memories of the game.

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Rest in peace, friend.

Posted by RIP Gary Gygax  on  03/04  at  04:40 PM
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