Wired article on Gary Gygax

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2008/03/ff_gygax?currentPage=1

A LONG one and very well-written. Thanks Wired. Sorry if it has been posted before.

Wonderful article

I really enjoyed that one. I love the pictures of EGG from the older days. I remember MUDs just a bit. I was born in 78. Just before the internet was big(ger) I remember playing some MUDs and the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL for free. Those were the days. I still have the old school TSR gold box series ADND games, wow, those were the days.

Thanks for the link.

This editorial by Wired senior editor Adam Rogers is also very good.

Very good article

I really enjoyed this article, thanks for posting the link. I knew David Kushner was working on some stuff for D&D but did not know this was one of them.

Reading it really makes me sad that Gary is gone. I would have loved to have gone to his event to have the chance to possibly play in one of his games.

I also would have liked him to see the 4e rules. I am not sure if he would have approved or not. My hope would have been that he liked the new rules, with less emphasis on perfect simulation, instead a focus on rules designed to be more intuitive. It sounds like he liked his games to be less rules intensive and more focused on the creative side of roleplaying.