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I won’t lie; part of the reason I’m writing a post at this point in time is because my brother posted the following to my Facebook…

I am outraged, OUTRAGED that you have not blogged about Gygax yet.

Gary Gygax died at the age of 69 today. He was co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, but is more commonly seen as it’s father, and without D&D, the RPG genre would be in a much different state than it is today, if it even existed. What else there to say beyond that? It’s Gygax we’re talking about here. Toklien can be one of the top driving influences for fantasy literature, and he and those that came after gave us far-away places to read about and pretend you were the hero, but Gygax made it so not only could you go to those far-away places, but you were controlling what happened.

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

Gary Gygax, in a 2004 interview with Gamespy