Farewell, Gary Gygax: A Jedi Leaves Us

[CaptainQuasar]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_GYGAX?SITE=VABRM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" - there are witty comments incorporating Dungeons & Dragons references all over the net, but I'll take another tack: it's like when Vader struck down Obi Wan. RIP.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04" of Penny Arcade.

 

[Poop-Loops]

Looks like he failed his Saving Throw vs. Death.

That's why I keep telling people NOT to neglect their Constitution.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Memorial edition of http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html" .

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[Schrodinger's Dog]

As if anyone was in any doubt that I am a colossal nerd, I played just about every role playing game when I was a kid, from Basic: D&D to Runequest, to Paranoia, and Traveller. You name it I probably played it. I even bought the figures back when they only existed in speciality shops as a kid, Things That Go Bump in the Night was the company name (long since perished). Ah the memories, lining up skeleton hordes and having them fight to the death. Re-enacting the movie aliens as Corporal Hicks, in the quite obviously simillar RPG. Ah marvellous, wasn't it.

Shame, a great deal of time wasted in that man's Universe as youngen.

 

[Huckleberry]

So long Gary Gygax, and thanks for all the good memories.

 

[jim mcnamara]

Shame, a great deal of time wasted in that man's Universe as youngen.

In a large way, youth is about wasting time; that is one way you learn.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

*roll dice* for the last time in his honor

 

[arildno]

Jacta est alea.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Okay, this one is good: http://xkcd.com/393/" .

And http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/dungeons_amp_dragons_creator_dies" .

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[CaptainQuasar]

An amusing http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/03/09/opinion/09opart2.ready.html" from NY Times.