The man who sent millions of nerds into imaginary underground dungeons filled with fantastical monsters and randomly strewn-about treasure has died. Local connection? Heck yes! D&D cocreator Dave Arneson hailed from Minnesota, and came out of the the Twin Cities-based Midwest Military Simulation Association.
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- D&D Creator Gary Gygax passes away
11 Reader Comments
3:30 pm
Save vs. Death.
3:38 pm
This is rather coincidental for me, as I’m playing D’n'D with some friends tonight (i’m doing it for the bf because i’m the best gf ever). Perhaps we will have a moment of silence in between fighting skeletons and warding off hordes of barbarians.
3:39 pm
I’m sure one of my ex’s is crying himself to sleep clutching his 30 sided die tonight.
3:51 pm
I remember starting to play Dungeons and Dragons (Basic D&D, before the AD&D books were printed) in 1976. I returned from vacation and my friend’s brother had purchased it. I spent many hours filling in those golden rod player sheets rolling D20 for save. It also was always such a pain to get two sided copies of the player sheets, duplex copiers weren’t quite as available then. I have most of the Dragon Magazines from I think about #23 to #200.
Sad to see Gary die, someone that brought the acceptable of non-six sided dice to the people. My favorite die was always the dodecahedron. It was extremely underutilized.
3:54 pm
I missed the day they taught D & D in Nerd School.
I think I was out cutting the heads off parking meters or something.
5:44 pm
He should have saved his lucky 20-sided die. At least we’ll always have Futurama.
8:16 pm
RIP Mr. Gygax.
Sooner or later we all roll a crit.
Greyhawk won’t be the same without you.
8:27 pm
Always sad to see a great American run out of hit points.
11:36 pm
“Greyhawk” is also the name of my pube cut.
I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally see “dodecahedron” in a MNspeak thread.
*pours some mead on graph paper for GG*
7:03 am
9:17 am
Can’t someone find a high enough level cleric to cast a resurrect spell?