RIP: Gary Gygax

[Blacklight]

For those of us nerds who grew up playing Dungeons & Dragons.. this is a sad day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax

Without Gary Gygax, I wouldn't be here at Subsim. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons when I was 12 back when the game was just a bunch of printed pamphlets and paper dice called "chits" and when we used a supliment called "Chainmail" for combat. It was playing Dungeons & Dragons that led me to love games. It led me to other games including wargames which in turn led me to simulations, which in turn led me to here.
There is hardly an area in my hobby of game collecting that this man didn't influence.
Gygax was also an avid wargamer (And actually prefered playing wargames over D&D). He also designed several wargames/miniatures rules and is credited on several more.
He was one of the most influential men in the gaming industry and he will be missed.

[fatty]

Failed his fortitude throw vs. finger of death

Rest in peace Gary.

[Torplexed]

A familar name although I was never big into D&D, I was fond of a lot of TSR and GDW (Game Designers Workshop) titles. I'm sure they're wearing black armbands at Wizards of the Coast tonight.

The Geek God is dead

I played my 1st DnD game back in 1982 and I'm still playing now

[Iron Budokan]

Sad news indeed.

[sonar732]

Oh the memories of taking graph paper, which was suppose to be bought for elementary and junior high math, and creating dungeon maps. I would have to agree that this started my love of RP games and general strategy games. If I didn't get involved in D&D, there wouldn't have been C64 D&D Pool of Radiance which was the demise of me playing the Ultima series stopping at Ultima IV.

GEEKTUM LIVES!

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by darius359au

The Geek God is dead

I played my 1st DnD game back in 1982 and I'm still playing now

I never did get into playing DnD much, I only tried it a couple times, but I have the books. If I could produce an original set of the Basic rules and an original set of the Expert rules, and even come up with the original Advanced rules including at least two monster manuals, a demigod manual, and something else (forget what it is), do you think they would be worth anything? I think I have all that stuff in storage.

A friend left his advanced rules (all hard bound books) at my house about 25 years ago (a guesstimate of time) when and I have no clue where 'he' would even be in this world today. I figured I'd give it back to him if I ever ran across him again, but I'm tired of storing it. I'd say 20 to 25 years of free storage is long enough? Time to collect on the interest for that storage! I doubt any of these things are worth anything today, but sometimes you never know. Some crazy collector probably wants them somewhere.

-S

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I never did get into playing DnD much, I only tried it a couple times, but I have the books. If I could produce an original set of the Basic rules and an original set of the Expert rules, and even come up with the original Advanced rules including at least two monster manuals, a demigod manual, and something else (forget what it is), do you think they would be worth anything? I think I have all that stuff in storage.

A friend left his advanced rules (all hard bound books) at my house about 25 years ago (a guesstimate of time) when and I have no clue where 'he' would even be in this world today. I figured I'd give it back to him if I ever ran across him again, but I'm tired of storing it. I'd say 20 to 25 years of free storage is long enough? Time to collect on the interest for that storage! I doubt any of these things are worth anything today, but sometimes you never know. Some crazy collector probably wants them somewhere.

-S

You could get some money for them on Ebay , or better yet try to sell them at a Convention ,most of that stuff collectable.