Gary Gygax has passed away

Link to the news from his current publisher's forum.

Time to reroll.

:(

Sorry for the attempt at dark humor, but it was hilarious to me when I thought of it.

And here's a fun comic to commemorate him.

Comments

  1. SpencerMarch 4, 2008 at 10:12 AM

    I lost more characters to Gygaxian adventures, than to the rest of my gaming combined. What a revolutionary guy.

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  2. SpencerMarch 5, 2008 at 12:13 AM

    This is perhaps the best tribute I've seen to him, and they also used the reroll metaphor.
    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html

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  3. BJMarch 5, 2008 at 3:13 AM

    It was either reroll or failing a saving throw.

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  4. SpencerMarch 6, 2008 at 1:25 AM

    Gary Gygax didn't always give saving throws. Remember the Temple of Elemental Evil, that was Gygax. Your dad killed my Cleric in one hit without a saving throw or any hp damage. Dang Assassin class.

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  5. BJMarch 6, 2008 at 3:59 AM

    Yeah, I vaguely remember my dad giving us drow weapons because we were about to fight an impossible battle.... which I velieve we lost anyway, at which point he tried to save us with an NPC he had to make up so we could figure something else out.

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  6. SpencerMarch 8, 2008 at 1:01 PM

    Peter and his darn paladin that shows up for two sessions and get a +5 longsword. I still remember that you had two characters D'artagnan (that's Adrian's spelling) and a wizard, but I don't remember the wizards name. Tim was Nakor the blue rider a cleric who worshipped a rock. Jared Cross played another wizard who because of a inappropriate miniature was known as Lumpy. Good times that. Even Bekah played I seem to remember Female Human fighter with a funny name. Hmm.

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