A sad day for TRUE Geeks everywhere.

[Thanatos340 1]

The Saving Roll came up short.

D&D Creator Gary Gygax dies

[mamajumps 0]

Wow, that stinks... I had no idea that game was older than me!

[Broke 0]

Guess he failed his save vs death

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[TomAiello 26]

When I was 12, my brother and I met him and had him sign our Dungeon Masters Guide and Player's Handbook. If we had been smart enough to buy new copies that day, and keep them in mint condition, I bet they'd be worth something now.

-- Tom Aiello

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[skydiver30960 0]

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Guess he failed his save vs death

Very harsh, but, well, also very funny.

So much time lost to D&D in my youth...

Yes, I was a geek.

Elvisio "no wonder the girls always laughed and pointed" Rodriguez

[wmw999 2,589]

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I had no idea that game was older than me!

I hope you take this in the nicest possible way -- shut the heck up.

I was in college then, and knew people who were playing it already . Yeah, there were a lot of geeks there

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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The Saving Roll came up short.

D&D Creator Gary Gygax dies

Damn - how many sided was THAT die?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Gawain 0]

I loved that game as a kid!! Talk about a healthy imagination stirrer!!

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[Gawain 0]

I loved that game as a kid!! Talk about a healthy imagination stirrer!!

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[BillyVance 35]

Is there an echo here?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[sunshine 2]

yes

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I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug!

[skiskyrock 0]

We witness the passing of a great man. He has done more to promote virginity among teenage males than anyone else in the world.

[Stuntbabex 0]

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[riddler 0]

If I added up all the time I actually spent playing D&D, at 24 hours a day, it would probably total months. I was the DM most of the time (call it a control issue). I remember always asking for D&D books (author, Gary Gygax) for Christmas.

The days of imagination games are all but over. Computers have replaced our imaginations. Anyone feeling nostalgic about D&D, but can't remember where they left their 20-sided dice, can just pickup a copy of Neverwinter Nights, which faithfully reproduces the D&D environment on a computer.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[Gawain 0]

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Is there an echo here?

If there was, you'd never know...right?

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[parachutist 2]

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The days of imagination games are all but over. Computers have replaced our imaginations.

I think those with imagination simply shifted to the creation side of games. My roommate has been in school learning 3D animation for 3 years now. It's not easy to take polygons and make 'em into something that draws people in, making them feel immersed in a world... a world that started in your head as a vision.

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Guess he failed his save vs death

Very harsh, but, well, also very funny.

along those lines.. this came from RPG.net

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16 Jokes We Better Not Catch You Making:

1. “Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!”
2. “Don’t worry – he’s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the next edition.”
3. “He’s gone the way of Star Frontiers.”
4. “Analysts warn of a free-fall in Mountain Dew futures.”
5. “In the next town, you meet a stranger named Barry Bygax.”
6. “Now who will lead our young people to Satan?”
7. “With his last breath, he cursed the name of Marlon Wayans.”
8. “I wonder how they’ll divide up his XP.”
9. “Pallbearers, make a Bend Bars/Lift Gates roll.”
10. "At least he didn't live to see Disney's Greyhawk On Ice."
11. “Lorraine Williams is behind this somehow, I just know it.”
12. “The worlds of adventure gaming, fantasy fandom, and van painting will never be the same.”
13. “When I heard, I cried 2d10 tears.”
14. “Is there anything in the will about electrum?”
15. “Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be owlbears that got him.”
16. “Suddenly, nobody in Heaven wants to hang out with Marilyn Monroe on Friday night.

Jokes aside the world would have never been the same without him.

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Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

[Broke 0]

D&D was just the gateway RPG. I used to play Star Wars, Rifts, Shadowrun, World of darkness, Toon, Battletech: Mechwarrior, and lets not forget about running the greates game in the world Kolbolds Ate my baby.

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[skydiver30960 0]

The thread is pretty much dead, but just to add something I saw yesterday...

Another great one from XKCD...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ultimate_game.png

Elvisio "more good stuff" Rodriguez

[Zenister 0]

another tribute.

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Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.