Gary Gygax RIP
 

At 69, no less. Damn.

(trying my hardest to not make D&D jokes)

Yeah, he probably deserves at least 24 hours before we start at that. I'm glad I didn't put anything about negative hit points in my thread title.

this hurts almost as bad as Joe Strummer. :(

Should have upped his Stamina stats. That's all I'm saying. No more from me.

save against death takes rolling 20's. A man can only roll so many 20's before luck runs out.

True, even if he wrote the DM Guide.

...Constitution points, as I remember.

Joe Strummer died on my 22nd birthday.
Not a big D&D fan here, but I admire Gygax's (<--is this correct?) work. R.I.P.

ahhh memories of being 12.

Oh yeah, I remember that one as everyone does.

I remember having some fun with this one.





http://infininut.blogspot.com/2007/0...revisited.html

I played GURPS cyberpunk

Steve Jackson should have just stuck with Car Wars imo.

Somewhere, a Paladin weeps for thee.

Alas.
For a character, this one Paladin miniature I had was my favorite.


Gamma World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_World

not Gygax, and I know I've said it before....but Famine in Far-Go was my favorite RPG module. I couldn't get enough of those fucking mutant chickens.



not many games allow you to infiltrate a post-apocoalyptic chicken processing plant.

He achieved something special; I have a lot of respect for him. This is very sad news indeed.

I think I missed the whole DND rage by 2 or 3 years.

Yeah, I never played D&D so excuse my poor understanding of the lexicon.

I do remember my brother had some Star Wars D&D books but I could never figure them out. Apparently my brother never did either, I think we were missing the basic guide. Anyways cool art which fueled my imagination anyway.

Gary Gygax interview 2001

kp: What is the correct pronunciation of Gygax (is it guy-gacks or jai-gacks)?

gg: Auf (Switzer) Deutsche, it is "Ghe-gox." Many of the family use that pronounciation. My part of the family has Americanized to be pronounced "Guy-gacks."


kp: Do you have 20-sided dice hanging from your rear-view mirror?

gg: No, nor do I own an auto...


the rest...
http://www.kittenpants.org/11_Loneliest/gygax.asp