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subplotkudzu) wrote2008-03-04 02:48 pm
subplotkudzu) wrote2008-03-04 02:48 pm
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EGG Moves On
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.
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.
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It would include:
The Dead playing Mountains of the Moon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9v86ix8QY)
Zeppelin playing "Battle of Evermore" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6pQrZPwoOU) and "Over the Hills and Far Away" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS6yINg22w).
What else? Who can suggest the right Hawkmoon and Arkangel tunes?
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Many of my friends ARE my friends because his co-invention of D&D created an entirely new hobby that brought us kindred spirits together.
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Whatever about the specifics of his work, the hobby he kick-started has made me a happier, better person, I have no doubt. Thanks, Gary.
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