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Gary Gygax, RIP
Mar. 5th, 2008 11:10 pmThis is my tribute to Gary Gygax, who died yesterday, March 4, 2008. I was blown away when I heard the news.
I hesitated to post this here, since I'm not sure if anyone on my Friends list even knows who Gary Gygax is. In case you don't know, he is the creator of the Dungeons and Dragons game, which as far as I know, was the first role-playing game of its kind. Today you can walk into a hobby store and find hundreds of various fantasy/sci-fi/horror RPGs on the shelves, and they all owe a debt to D&D, without which they might never have come into existence.
After thinking it over, I realized that D&D did influence my fanfiction writing, in ways both subtle and obvious, so I decided to go ahead and post this. Besides, I wanted to figuratively raise my glass to Gary, even if I'm the only one who reads this.
I hesitated to post this here, since I'm not sure if anyone on my Friends list even knows who Gary Gygax is. In case you don't know, he is the creator of the Dungeons and Dragons game, which as far as I know, was the first role-playing game of its kind. Today you can walk into a hobby store and find hundreds of various fantasy/sci-fi/horror RPGs on the shelves, and they all owe a debt to D&D, without which they might never have come into existence.
After thinking it over, I realized that D&D did influence my fanfiction writing, in ways both subtle and obvious, so I decided to go ahead and post this. Besides, I wanted to figuratively raise my glass to Gary, even if I'm the only one who reads this.
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