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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 4097938" data-attributes="member: 198">My two bits? The death of Gary Gygax makes no difference to me. I got into gaming in 1999, when his direct influence on D&D was very low, if not non-existent, and from what I've seen of 1e and things Gary has said here on ENWorld, his gaming philosophy and style were mostly very different from mine. I didn't know him personally, and even if I did it wouldn't really matter, since death doesn't bother me at all whether it happens to friends or family or strangers. Everyone dies and since getting excited about it won't change anything, I don't. That said, I'm very happy that Gary invented D&D, a game which has given me more pleasure than anything legally should <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And if other people who had a much greater connection to him and/or are more emotional than me about death have a strong reaction to his death, do I think there's anything wrong with it? Hell, no! I thought it was fascinating to see the outpouring of emotion and sentiment here and elsewhere, and I saw some very classy and thoughtful responses to his death.In short, I think it's silly that Matt Snyder assumes that there should be one response to Gygax's death or that everyone who is upset about it is upset for the same reasons.</blockquote>

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