Gary Gygax Fails Last Saving Throw

Dungeons and Dragons co-creator dead at 69.

69....*giggle*

gary was awesome.
i really loved those batwinged, fanged naked chicks in the monster manual.
*looks around*
I guess i still do.

Wow, that's terrible news.

Uh, thanks for giving me a ruleset to define my life of awkward geekitude, Gary.

Great headline.

Or you could get some of this nectar and toast to his now ancestral fame, for real:

Whiskey & Mead

Wait does this mean that we can dungeon crawl through his house? I mean can you imagine all the insane phat loots he must have collected over the years?

I'm Colin Alliston and I'm *rolls the dice* saddened by your death.

I've been into AD&D for longer than ... well, anything else I'm into.

I never met the man, and yet it's like I've lost a mentor.

Even Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound didn't see this coming.

I blame 4th edition .

He sails on to Valhalla. Where the women fight hard and drink deep.

Agreed!

Are you fucking serious? Grow up.

So long Gary. Rest in peace.

I am going to go dig out my 12th level half ogre fighter ( 2nd Edition , natch ) , & we shall go upon a rampage the likes which haven't been seen for a good 10 years . Which about how long it's been since I last played .
Rest well EGG , you changed the world in a small but significant way for many of us .

dibs on the +1 Mace!

what? we divide up his gear, kill the big bad that got him, then we toast to him. i thought that was standard operational adventuring party rules, right?

I started on the original D&D.

Have a good reroll Gary.

You stay classy.

part of my childhood died today.

*sniffle*

At least you got my joke.

I'm sad that they edited his wiki to remove the "-10 hit points" reference. I think he would have like it better that way.

where did they have that in the Wiki? coming onto the scene late blows.