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Gary Gygax has passed. RIP beloved father of RPG's. (merged)
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4087142" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I never had more personal contact with Gary Gygax than the occasional sighting at Gen Cons too numerous to mention but D&D has been a massive part of my life for more than 25 years (it's starting to get scarily close to 30 years).</p><p></p><p>The RPG and broader gaming community may have grown beyond just D&D. Other designers have come to the fore with their take on RPGs. Yet D&D remains the closest thing to a lingua franca in the gaming community. The majority have probably played it; even more know a substantial amount about it (even if they may have disdained it for another game); and we all laugh at insider humor takes on it whether in songs by Weird Al or Lukeski or in the comics by John Kovalic and Jolly Blackburn. D&D is, in many ways, a binder cementing gamer geek culture together (yes, so we can quite often bicker bitterly about it and other varied topics).</p><p>To have had that kind of impact on so many people is quite a record. </p><p></p><p>Rest in peace, Gary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 4087142, member: 3400"] I never had more personal contact with Gary Gygax than the occasional sighting at Gen Cons too numerous to mention but D&D has been a massive part of my life for more than 25 years (it's starting to get scarily close to 30 years). The RPG and broader gaming community may have grown beyond just D&D. Other designers have come to the fore with their take on RPGs. Yet D&D remains the closest thing to a lingua franca in the gaming community. The majority have probably played it; even more know a substantial amount about it (even if they may have disdained it for another game); and we all laugh at insider humor takes on it whether in songs by Weird Al or Lukeski or in the comics by John Kovalic and Jolly Blackburn. D&D is, in many ways, a binder cementing gamer geek culture together (yes, so we can quite often bicker bitterly about it and other varied topics). To have had that kind of impact on so many people is quite a record. Rest in peace, Gary. [/QUOTE]
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