D&D Co-Creator Gary Gynax has passed

[VoldtaEngler]

I'm not really a D&D tabletop player, but I know a lot of you are, so I felt compelled to share the story with you that Gary Gygax has passed away at age 69.

The dice rolls silently today.

[Black Spiral Dancer]

You posted this as I was writing much the same thing. I'm not much of a D&D player. Always preferred CoC and WoD.

[Velvet-Tongue]

Rest in peace neckbeard king. May your stein be always full of mountain dew and hands with cheetos.

[Mr Karl]

who knows where I'd be without his contribution to the world

[Bikerpunk]

You posted this as I was writing much the same thing. I'm not much of a D&D player. Always preferred CoC and WoD.

But for D&D there would be no CoC

[VoltaireBlue]

suck!

[VoltaireBlue]

Rest in peace neckbeard king. May your stein be always full of mountain dew and hands with cheetos.

hear, hear!

[keiko]

who knows where I'd be without his contribution to the world

Indeed. A toast of Dew to the man who in many ways created more than worlds, but a people to inhabit them. The Original Geek, We salute you.

putting together a one-shot 2nd ed game for this saturday in his honour.

is it lame that i cried? is it even more lame that i had nightmares about trawling gygaxian style dungeons last night?

~K

[VoldtaEngler]

wow keiko..i had a "Real Men of Genius" moment with your post..

[Joel Awesome]

May he always roll 20's

[keiko]

wow keiko..i had a "Real Men of Genius" moment with your post..

*grins*

though i think i should deduct points for you misspelling his name in the thread title...

(so deep down i'm a cruel DM)

~K

[Bikerpunk]

He will be critically missed......

[Thurbane_316]

I was very sad when I heard this news. As an avid D&D player of over 20 years, Gary Gygax was very much a childhood hero and adulthood icon for me.

At our weekly game last night, we had a toast in his honor.

R.I.P. Gary, you were one of the good ones.

[evilstonermonkey]

despite being a d&d player, i had never actually heard of the fellow until all 700 or so of the webcomics i read did a tribute comic for him, and then not one but 2 threads cropped up here. im not onna get my nerd license revoked for this, am i?

[keiko]

despite being a d&d player, i had never actually heard of the fellow until all 700 or so of the webcomics i read did a tribute comic for him, and then not one but 2 threads cropped up here. im not gonna get my nerd license revoked for this, am i?

*reads your nerd license* actually as you're registered as a nerd, and not a geek it looks like you get to keep it. but you do get points against your geek license, should you ever apply for one.

~K

[VoldtaEngler]

*grins*

though i think i should deduct points for you misspelling his name in the thread title...

(so deep down i'm a cruel DM)

~K

Yea, It's a new laptop..and I have long fingers. I am error.

[Mr Karl]

i had nightmares about trawling gygaxian style dungeons last night?

~K

so how was the treasure?

[evilstonermonkey]

i found a sphere of annihilation...

[Bikerpunk]

I have a +3 mattress of solitude

[keiko]

so how was the treasure?

no 8x11 room is ever empty. failed a spot check in the dark and was eaten by a grue.

~K

[Head Wreck]

heh heh.

on a tangent, anyone play munchkin? (card game) its a riot, but best played after enough alcohol that your face feels like its dripping of your skull

[VoldtaEngler]

I have all the Munchkin games and expansions...and dice counters. Burn In Hell, Ninja Burger,
Erm..also have Zombies and expansions, Heroscape (and expansions), and a bunch of other games including Da Vinci and Are You a WereWolf?

8^)

[Mr Karl]

munchkin rocks.....perfect filler for waiting for everyone to show up

[VoldtaEngler]

Ahhhh..I was looking up munchkin stuff out of random (thanks Head Wreck, lol) and realized I dont have all the expansions...im missing the Good, the Bad and the Munchkin!

[Head Wreck]

my pleasure. they should include a bottle of absinthe with every deck though :/

[Amelia G]

Wow, I just had to Google the co-creator stuff because, answering a pop quiz, I would have said that Gary Gygax was the creator of D&D. Apparently, a guy named Dave Arneson created the game with him but didn't have the dough to kick in for publishing it and they ended up in a legal dispute and later credit Dave Arneson as well. That kind of makes me sad. It's all fun and games until someone makes a dollar.

[Mr Karl]

well, all thousands of details aside, it was his name that was on the three original books that launched one of the bigger money makers out there

[Black Spiral Dancer]

[Head Wreck]

[Black Spiral Dancer]

Everyone knows that is exactly what Mr Gygax is doing now. Playing D&D with Death to win back his soul.

[VoldtaEngler]

That's an awesome comic BSD. I had a minor Bill & Ted flashack. 8^)

[Donald Rilea]

Rather liked the strip myself, BSD, and thanks for postin' it here.

Who knows?? Maybe ol' Ingmar Bergman, who used that concept in The Seventh Seal, is seeing it out there in the Great Beyond and laughing his head off.

Either that, or he's screaming with rage about how the artist stole his idea(Wouldn't be the first time, neither).

Oh, those Tempermental Swedish Artist Types!!! LOL

[VoldtaEngler]

@Donald

Im Swedish..and an artist in a sense..and I'm not temperment...FUCK YOU THIEF!!!!! hehe lol ;D

[Amelia G]

Awesome!

[Donald Rilea]

@Donald

Im Swedish..and an artist in a sense..and I'm not temperment...FUCK YOU THIEF!!!!! hehe lol ;D

Personally, I hope that Mr. Bergman, were he able to view the strip, would have rather got a kick out of it and its adaptation of the concept he used in The Seventh Seal.

Hey, if the makers of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Animanics could get away with it, why not this fella???

Mind you, by the way, there are plenty of Temperamental Anglo-Saxon or Celtic Artist Types out there too, and... Hey!!! Hey!!! What the Hell are you doing??? Put that down!!! D'ye know how much that fucker costs???!!!