Wednesday, March 05, 2008

RIP Gary Gygax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

I don't think Gary gets the credit he deserves for being such a huge influence on popular culture and many peoples lives. You won't find an American that has not heard of D&D. There might still be gamers but they would be playing board games. There likely would not be MMORPG without the RPG to emulate. I have been playing D&D for 22 years now and while I never met Gary I kind of feel like an old friend died.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Really sad... Never met Gary either, but he's been a familiar name since I was eleven or twelve.

clay