Gary Gygax dead at 69
Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons died this morning.
He and Dave Arneson just about invented the entire role-playing game industry. I don’t think I know anyone who wasn’t touched, in some way, by D&D. Those of us who played owe Mr. Gygax a debt of gratitude that is hard to put into words.
He grew up in Lake Geneva, which is also where he started playing war games. Those war games added more and more fantasy elements, until, finally, rules were developed to allow individual heroes to adventure without the armies. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, those rules are in their fourth major revision and have been copied, or emulated, or added-to, the world over.
Wow, the world has changed so much in such a short time.
We’ll all miss you, Gary.
