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Title: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Stan on March 04, 2008, 03:18:17 PM

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html (http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html)

*sigh*

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Sarah on March 04, 2008, 03:25:01 PM

I'm sorry for your loss, Stan.

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: bruce on March 04, 2008, 03:29:08 PM

so Stan are you pouring out a bag of funyuns and playing Rush's 2112.

I guess Gygax took a critical hit to the heart with a +5 Heart Attack

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Omar on March 04, 2008, 04:02:23 PM

Tears are flowing in suburban Detroit today ...

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p155/fradom/dandd.jpg)

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Phantom Hugger on March 04, 2008, 04:24:35 PM

I went to Gen Con in 1987 and in the time it took Gary to sign my DMG, he had chain smoked about 3 Pall Mall filterless cigarettes.

I too shall pour some Dr. Pepper out and buy my last package of Mr Salty Pretzel sticks. :'(





(This could just as well appear on a general apologist thread)

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: buffcoat on March 04, 2008, 04:51:04 PM

Quote from: Bruce on March 04, 2008, 03:29:08 PM

so Stan are you pouring out a bag of funyuns and playing Rush's 2112.

I guess Gygax took a critical hit to the heart with a +5 Heart Attack

Nice.

I went with "He failed his last saving throw" for his epitaph.

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Martin on March 04, 2008, 04:57:22 PM

Someone rolled a 20.

(Isn't 20 a botch in AD&D? I forget. Anyway, that's what I was going for. You're welcome!)

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 04, 2008, 05:07:49 PM

Wow, news travels fast.  I was just on my way here to console Stan.  Sorry, fella.

Title: Re: RIP Gary Gygax
Post by: Sarah on March 04, 2008, 06:13:42 PM

Quote from: Bruce on March 04, 2008, 03:29:08 PM

I guess Gygax took a critical hit to the heart with a +5 Heart Attack

If it was sudden and immediately fatal, he went the way I would like to go and has my congratulations.

A fellow on my Buffy board wrote this in his post announcing the death:

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For old geeks like me, he was like this cool old uncle that invented great games for us to play. He was responsible for most of my creative output through my early teens. I remember walking past him at GenCon one time and pointing out to the guy with me, "Hey, that was Gary Gygax!". "Who?" he asked? "GARY GYGAX!!!" I said. "He invented ALL of this!". That might have been an exaggeration. But he invented a lot of it, and even better, he inspired us to keep inventing more.

Bye, Gary. You rolled a 20 at the game of life.

There have been far worse eulogies.