BAKup: Damn you Jim!!! Two seconds!

Christ...you sound like my wife. :D

Long live Steve Jackson and TFT! :D

/Glad I got to hear and applaud Mr. Gygax at an Origins Awards.
//Props to The Man. There'd have been no TFT without DND and its perceived flaws as inspiration.
///Maybe no GURPS either.

MensRea: You're gonna burn in hell.

-Jack T. Chick

/sad
//still occasionally plays

I've not played in years.. but I do have at least a half a dozen of the actual Dark Dungeons tracts.

charlatan brown: where are all of you folks who still play or just started playing, and why aren't you coming to my dining room table on saturday?!

Because you're up thataway, sweetheart. Come to Arkansas, we'll get you some game.

charlatan brown: where are all of you folks who still play or just started playing, and why aren't you coming to my dining room table on saturday?!

Your dining room table is 4.5 hours away.

samimgreen: tothekor: I've been frantically looking for confirmation on this but no legitimate news outlet has anything on Gary's death. Just this message board link which I trust only as far as I can throw it.

Can someone point me to a legit new agency reporting this?

Sniffle (new window)

Wisconsin? They're losing Favre and Gygax? Can you imagine the bars. Two men drinking to their sorrows, the bully and the geek weep together.

Thank you... I'm of to pour a rather large glass of whisky right now.

D&D lead me to LARPing, which lead me to the love of my life.

Nerds really are better lovers... and as I've come to realize, they tend to be better people in general.

Gygax rules, if only for giving smart nerd kids a shortcut to meeting other smart nerd kids.

RIP.

Death is the cure for anything life throws at you.

I am very saddened by this. RIP Gary.

I'm glad I got to meet him last summer, and to shake the hand of the man who started it all.

Thanks

all4not: Ok, I am looking for some help here.

I have played video games that are somewhat similar to D&D (Planescape, Baldurs Gate, etc....) but never played actual pen and paper D&D. My kids are old enough that they would like it to.

But, how do I start? Any good websites or books to point me in the right direction?

You are just in time for the new edition of D&D (new window) to be released this June.

I'll never forget playing Magic: The Gathering with some random teenager in the lobby of a hotel at the last GenCon that was in Milwaukee. I asked the kid if he'd ever played D&D and right at that moment, Gary Gygax walks up to our table and asks this kid if he's going to join him for dinner. The kid said no, and Gary walked away. Turned out that I was playing Magic with Gary's son. Then he said something like, "Yeah, I've played D&D a couple times." I felt really stupid. He was a nice kid though.

nopokerface: Your dining room table is 4.5 hours away.

You've never driven that far for a good game?!

Cornwell: I want confirmation, damnit!

Some forum and a Wikipedia[citation really needed this time damnit!] page doesn't cut it for me...

But when I find anything on his death on Google News, I will raise a glass.

In the meantime, someone get some sticks, leaves, mud, clay and oils worth at least 1,000gp!


It just popped up on Cnet.

Link

RIP, Father of Nerds

dallashockey: who gives a flying rats ass? there is something a little more important going on in this country...an election. leave your basements and go vote!

Just because you're excited about American Idol tonight doesn't mean the rest of us cannot morn the passing of a person with a true cultural impact.


In all seriousness, if the election is so important to you, than why are you on fark? you should be sitting at a poll location and helping voters. There's nothing forcing you to morn the loss of a truly inspiring individual like Mr. Gygax, but at the same time, would you mind if we asked you to not be such a dick about it?

So long, nerdyman.

/semi-nerd
//Never played D&D (thus the 'semi)
//Still respect the guy
//He's still a nerd, tho.

Cotton Rinkenbolts: I'll never forget playing Magic: The Gathering with some random teenager in the lobby of a hotel at the last GenCon that was in Milwaukee. I asked the kid if he'd ever played D&D and right at that moment, Gary Gygax walks up to our table and asks this kid if he's going to join him for dinner. The kid said no, and Gary walked away. Turned out that I was playing Magic with Gary's son. Then he said something like, "Yeah, I've played D&D a couple times." I felt really stupid. He was a nice kid though.

PWNed

Funny, though.

altinos: You've never driven that far for a good game?!

Yes, but not of D&D.

Thanks for letting me slay that Orc.....

/You have done what fews other have done, Let the worlds of imaginations free...
/RIP

Maybe he's hanging with Roy Scheider...

"Catch you later."

blindio: dallashockey: who gives a flying rats ass? there is something a little more important going on in this country...an election. leave your basements and go vote!

Just because you're excited about American Idol tonight doesn't mean the rest of us cannot morn the passing of a person with a true cultural impact.


In all seriousness, if the election is so important to you, than why are you on fark? you should be sitting at a poll location and helping voters. There's nothing forcing you to morn the loss of a truly inspiring individual like Mr. Gygax, but at the same time, would you mind if we asked you to not be such a dick about it?

I could be wrong, but I think you'd be better off using fire or acid rather than words in this instance.

whconner4: Ah, so much nerd rage. Wowza. D-n-D shaped your life? Lonely, unemployed and living in mom's basement has a shape?

Round is a shape. What's your point?

DarkLancelot: MCStymie: gorgor: MCStymie
Gonna swing my +1 Longsword at an orc in his honor.

Is that what you call sex with the missus?
/I keed :)

Actually, my secks with the missus is more "Swinging my Mace of Disruption at the Vampire chick". Giggity, giggity, giggity.

I had you pegged as more the "Rod of Lordly Might" sort. ;)

WOO! I only get to swing that when the Vampire Chick isn't trying to drain two energy levels...or 200 GP...from me.

/And good lookin' out with your "Staff of Striking"!
//Hot-Cha-Cha-Cha-Chaaaa!

BallsackConundrum: D&D lead me to LARPing, which lead me to the love of my life.

I need to get back into LARPing. If anything, I could use the exercise.

Public Call Box: all4not: Ok, I am looking for some help here.

I have played video games that are somewhat similar to D&D (Planescape, Baldurs Gate, etc....) but never played actual pen and paper D&D. My kids are old enough that they would like it to.

But, how do I start? Any good websites or books to point me in the right direction?

You are just in time for the new edition of D&D (new window) to be released this June.

Their release schedule reminds one of the release schedule of college textbooks. Do we really need a new book every 3 years or so?

Deflicted: charlatan brown: where are all of you folks who still play or just started playing, and why aren't you coming to my dining room table on saturday?!

Because you're up thataway, sweetheart. Come to Arkansas, we'll get you some game.

nopokerface: charlatan brown: where are all of you folks who still play or just started playing, and why aren't you coming to my dining room table on saturday?!

Your dining room table is 4.5 hours away.


Getting some horseshoes of Zephyr and I'm on my way.

Luthiel: I could be wrong, but I think you'd be better off using fire or acid rather than words in this instance.

Lightning Bolt!

Played from 1976 until I got too busy with real life. Man, that first set is more than 30 years old now. I think I've still got the dice around somewhere...

Definitely still have Eldritch Wizardry, Greyhawk and Blackmoor too. May need a ceremonial viewing...

/ NOOOOO!!! Must... not...

I'm trying to wrap my head around how many games and people this guy influenced, directly or otherwise...

Good night nerdy man.

He's the creating force behind some of the best times of my life. This makes me sad.

RIP, DM of DMs.

RIP

I've never played DnD, but I know how much it's contributed to what I entertain myself with. RIP, many a geek's world would not have been as bright without you.

cerberus9: Cowboy Spencer: Keep on the Borderlands.

"Kobold Lair

There is a 1 in 20 chance..."

Loved that module...

Haven't played in a LONG time but I had that module too. Wow, brought back some memories.

Well crap!
I spent many a college weekend in the mid-late '70s playing D&D and laying out maps and painting little lead figures and drinking cheap beer. Somewhere in storage, my little wizard and plastic dice are mourning.

Zork, Doom, Myst, Quake, Halo, Half-Life... They're all great, but they don't have the tangible memories that D&N brought.

I think this statement is attributable to Marilyn Manson:

"You know how they say that each cigarette you smoke reduces your life span by seven minutes? Well, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play extends your virginity by two weeks..."


High School Nerd or not?
- big D&D / Car Wars player
- concert band/choir
- AP Physics, Computer Science
but...
- big FOOTBALL player
- had hot GIRLFRIEND and SEX!
- played lots of Zep & Hendrix on guitar
- schmoozed with the burnouts and Deadheads

now...
- Mac IT guy
but... I play bass in a rock&roll band, dammit!

The nerd vs. anti-nerd struggle continues...

RIP Gary

/submitter
//when I submitted it the linked page was the only source reporting it, so I gave it the breaking news tag
///sad tag too sad

all4not: Ok, I am looking for some help here.

I have played video games that are somewhat similar to D&D (Planescape, Baldurs Gate, etc....) but never played actual pen and paper D&D. My kids are old enough that they would like it to.

But, how do I start? Any good websites or books to point me in the right direction?

Just find a local hobby shop, the guys working there are almost always friendly and eager to help someone new learn about the game (read: spend money on modules, dice, and books). For D&D all you really need if you're brand new is a player's handbook, a DM manual, a set of dice, some paper and pencils, and an imagination. If you've played Baldur's Gate (Planescape is a different animal altogether), you'll be familiar with die rolls, stats and all that. However I believe Baldur's Gate was based on 2nd Edition Rules and the current edition is the 3rd. There are some serious differences, so read up and get playing!

R.I.P.
Thanks for giving me something to do most weekends in high school.

/You can have my dice when you pry them from my COLD, DEAD HANDS!!!

In 1980 through 1981, After 3 tries our party of 5, 4 PC's & 1 NPC, finally finished module S1 (Tomb of Horrors) that our DM Greg had successfully Modded to be even more playable and deadly.

Bleeding around a campfire with maybe 6HP total between us, we were roasting one of our pack animals for food when the DM rolled for a rando encounter. Out of the brush an Umber Hulk wandered up to our campfire, took the roasting food, spit and all, and sat down and started eating. The DM's NPC who we all thought was a very stupid Druid said "This is my Umber Hulk friend, let's walk away and leave him alone while he eats." We left immediately very confused about what had just happened. We later learned the NPC was just a thief who successfully stole all he could carry from us, and that the Umber Hulk was really a random monster.

Thanks DM Greg, Jay, Rob & Peter. Chris.

RIP Gary, no more saving throws needed where you are now.

One almost wants to get involved in a campaign again.

Gary narrates the Delera's Tomb quest in DDO: Stormreach (Dungeons and Dragons Online). That quest was the reason I turned off DM narration (let's face it, his voice is not exactly "thrilling" nor even close to voice actor quality). Looks like I'll be logging on, turning DM narration back on, and re-deading a few undead.

RIP Mr. Gygax, and thanks.

egomann: Prof_Moriarity: NOOOOOOOOOO!

I will resist the urge to rub my dice on his corpse.

Now That is Obscure.

RIP Gary



Nothing is obscure on Fark.

I blame the 396 Berzerkers.

What a terrible bit of news to start the day. I owe nearly 30 years of constructive imagination to his original Good Idea. Sorry to see him go.

Hoist a jar.

/lifelong gamer
//married a gamer
///raising more gamers
////we outnumber you now