http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7278927.stm
All you fairies shold bow-down..
Gary Gygax, co-creator of the first role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, has died at the age of 69.
I used to love D&D long before it appeared on PC and consoles. This was when you actually had to use your imagination etc.
Gary rolls for a save.
Gary fails.
Gary has 0 hit points.
Next Player?
:crying:
v sad ive got loads of d&d and ad&d books and play it regulary:crying:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04
Started on D&D but moved on the Runequest which was a lot better imho as it used %ages.
All stemmed from the top though.
PEN
Quote from: DogMeat;224690Gary rolls for a save.
Gary fails.
Gary has 0 hit points.
Next Player?
:crying:
how many times has that happended in a game
player looks longingly at his now dead 15 year old charecter and says"can i have devine intervention"?
dm replies "if you hadnt done (add what you did to annoy dm here) then ok but otherwise feck off"
That is indeed sad news..
Thx Gary for all the fun hours spent in your world
Ive played a immense amount of Ad&d back before D&D 3rd edition came :(
Fantastic game.. got around 46 ad&d books, sdaly none playes it around here anymore,,
read most of his books, they are so good.
:crying::crying:
One of my favorite characters jumped a bottomless pit and didn't make the jump. 25 years that poor B:@>:%^7 has been falling.
D&D was great I had all 5 box sets.
Never liked D&D in book form, too many different dice to roll and different mechanics for different things (works well when a computer is doing all that for you though), but it is a sad day indeed when the father of tabletop roleplaying passes away, even if my preferred games are more sci-fi in nature (mmn, Cyberpunk 2020). Without Gary, we almost certainly wouldn't have WoW, or any of the other MMOs out there.
Never played the paper game, but it has some decent games for PC. Shame, before his time.
PS: here is Gu-Comic's http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20080305
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ultimate_game.png)
Sad news indeed.
Quote from: Gh0st Face Killah;225258(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ultimate_game.png)
Sad news indeed.
Brilliant comic though :roflmao:
Quote from: Sithvid;224731One of my favorite characters jumped a bottomless pit and didn't make the jump. 25 years that poor B:@>:%^7 has been falling.
D&D was great I had all 5 box sets.
Hey wasn't that my character, and wasn't that dragon warriors and not D&D?
You fell for it too.:roflmao:
Quote from: Sithvid;225379You fell for it too.:roflmao:
Now your talking riddles.
Aslok has been fallen down a bottomless pit for the last 25 years. I still haven't forgiven the GM for doing that to me!