EGG Moves On

[subplotkudzu]

Gary Gygax, co creator os Dungeons and Dragons, passed away last night. 

I never met the man, but the hobby he helped found shaped who I am in a number of ways, and for that I owe him a lot. It's easy to look at the games he wrote and tear them apart for bad design, strange concepts and his Gygaxian prose, but much of that is with hindsight, standing on the shoulders of people who stood on his shoulders. RPGs might not be here at all if not for the efforts he and his fellows took to champion them.

And I forgive his prose as being an over-saturation of Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories. There are worse things.

Comments

[mylescorcoran]

So true. I count some of the people I've met through A&E, for example, as good friends and true, and I'm pretty sure I'd never have met them without that funny little game Gygax and Arneson created.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Much of my social circle is built around my gaming groups, and the hobby is the glue that keeps us getting together on a regular basis. We have other interests and other gatherings but gaming is the core of it.

I don't know who or where I'd be without gaming, and I knew I needed to do it from the moment I read about D&D.