Dungeons and Dragons creator dies

[Gone_Away]

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.

[DogMeat]

Gary rolls for a save.
Gary fails.
Gary has 0 hit points.
Next Player?

:crying:

[sulky_uk]

v sad ive got loads of d&d and ad&d books and play it regulary:crying:

[Gandalf]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04

[Penfold]

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

[sulky_uk]

Gary 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"

[kregoron]

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:

[Sithvid]

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.

[Carr0t]

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.

[Bastet]

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

[Gh0st Face Killah]

Sad news indeed.

[Bastet]

 
Sad news indeed.

Brilliant comic though :roflmao:

[DrSteam]

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.

Hey wasn't that my character, and wasn't that dragon warriors and not D&D?

[Sithvid]

You fell for it too.:roflmao:

[DrSteam]

You 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!