Gary Gygax Day. Monday, July 27.

aandrethegiant

For many of us kids who grew up in a decade before PCs became ubiquitous and long before it was cool to be a geek, Gary's creation meant Friday nights spent playing games with your friends, instead of finding creative ways to break the law.

For so many years (I started playing in 1976) we were busy rolling 20-sided dice and doing battle with Orcs and other evil beasts.

I hope that all the folks over at Hasbro, WotC, PW/Cryptic, and every gamer who's ever played D&D takes the time to acknowledge the man who dared us to go on amazing adventures, brave evils, battle dragons, delve into dungeons, travel the planes, and most importantly: to turn strangers into friends.

So many people owe their PC gaming and roll playing enjoyment to this man. Thanks Gary. You are missed.

kreatyve

Moved this to the Moonstone Mask (PC).

drkbodhi

As much as Tolkien created the genre... Gary and his buddies took that notion to the Nth Degree. Gary was the ba stard grandson of JRR Tolkien... as far as RPGs, MMORPGs, MMO and so many other concepts are based on their tiny, little offering to the world.​​

dragoness10

Yay Gary! Remember those "create your own monster pages" in the back of the AD&D books? Creativty and imagination were paramount in the game. Long days of tabletop. Cries of "Moooomm! He made a gelatinous cube eat me again!" followed by "play nice with your sister". The other girls in junior high wondering why I'd even want to sit there with a room full of boys at lunchtime playing some dice rolling, storytelling, book based game. (Hello, a ROOM FULL of boys!) My dad's own text-based game he made in the 80's loosely designed on the dungeon format, "Castle Doors". Even just last week discussing the newly released spellbook with the guy at the comic book store was fun.

This is a medium of thinking, and creative solutions Gary Gygax and his buddies published for which I will forever think he is awesome. It's been a good part of my life.