E. Gary Gygax Dead at Age 69

[Mortonia]

I found this article on CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

There was more to the article, but I think the first part says it all really.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Ah, yes. I read that myself earlier today.

 

[Mortonia]

Wizards did post a nice blurb about it as well.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome

 

[Bari]

Ha! I remember the 3d6 for stats and the "demi-humans" as classes as if it was yesterday. Pretty much because a year ago I was still playing by those rules, heh. And actually, I still use them to fill the loop-holes on the malformed plump of rules I got from SRD... making for a quite unbalanced game. Guess that's my cheap tribute?
...I mean, it's better than a bag of chips. Right? Right.

And just for the fact of contributing to the thread somehow, Rich Baker also said some words: www.giantitp.com

 

[Sienna_Rose]

There's another one here, which is a fitting tribute, I think. . .
http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18279&sectionId=2

And a warning, if you do go check out OotS (a very fitting tribute) from Bari's link, it is loading very slowly right now (but worth the wait). I think a lot of people want to see what Rich had to say.
(For those who don't know, OotS is Order of the Stick, a web comic about an adventuring party that is written by Rich Burlew, whose world was 3rd place in the contest that brought us Eberon - no, the OotS world is not the world that was submitted).

 

[Ruthia]

http://www.enworld.org/index.php?

En Worlds tribute.

 

[HolyGrenadeFrenzy]

I have put this elsewhere too yet...

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220763&highlight=Gary+Gygax

Everyone heard that 4.0 is getting a dedication to Gary, right?http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220708&highlight=Gary+Gygax

Also this one.
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220692&highlight=Gary+Gygax
some of these may be repeats already posted here.

 

[Archangel_Zer0]

A sad day indeed.

Gary Gygax is dead. Long live Gary Gygax.


Can't wait to see you at that big gaming table in the sky, man. Thank you for everything you've done for the fantasy world.


Peace, Love and Bloodstains,
~ Just another D&D nerd.

 

[Malicki Silverhair]

I have been a follower of the dungeons and dragons game since 1982 since I was six and my parents took me to their games. At age 10 I joined a group and have been playing ever since. It is with great sadness that I hear that Gary Gygax the creator of the possible greatest game in the world has passed. With his passing I hope we all remeber him for what he has done for all the youth past and present with his game.

He gave us a way to express ourselves and stay out of trouble. He gave friends a way to come together and have loads of fun. And he has given the movie world a whole new basis for their medival fantasy movies. He will be missed and he will still be remembered no matter who it is playing HIS game.

Rest in Peace my friend,

Malicki Silverhair

AKA

Wolf

 

[Kinetti]

Monte Cook's tribute (co-creator of 3E, and boss of Malhavoc Press, he also was part of the glory I still venerate, 2nd Ed Planescape. heh):
http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mc_los_165

even White Wolf has a blurb!
http://www.white-wolf.com/index.php?line=news&articleid=895

Another d20 company I like, Fantasy Flight Games. a tribute by their CEO:
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/news-gygax.html