Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, dead at 69

[Mr.Sam]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/

The guy who started it all - movies, books and games.


rip

[dirrty]

rip.
& what a number to die at.

[Niall!]

rip.
& what a number to die at.

I want to die at 69 aswell

[mangle]

RIP - Never rly watched it but i know lots of ppl have enjoyed them

[lScottl]

What the hell is 'Dungeons & Dragons'?

[dirrty]

isnt dungeons and dragons that "board game". i use board game very loosly as its not reli 1 is it?
:S
aint it the 2 boards or summit like that :S

[Mr.Sam]

I can't believe you've never heard of dungeons and dragons...


(source: wikipedia.)

As of 2006, Dungeons & Dragons remains the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar)1 billion in book and equipment sales. Dungeons & Dragons is known beyond the game for other D&D-branded products (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_related_products), references in popular culture and some of the controversies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controversies) that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic) in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism) and suicide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide).

Dungeons & Dragons was the first modern role-playing game and it established many of the conventions that have dominated the genre.

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The game was one of the factors what started the fantasy role-playing games, books and movies we see today.

[Pyroka]

Damn, that game is so popular and ive never even been or seen anything on it. he was one popular guy im guessing? and a rich one at that come to think of it.

[FlyingJesus]

I used to play D&D, it was really fun. Myself and the guy who played as DM were (and still are as far as I know :P) really literative and so we made some pretty intense campaigns for the 12 year olds we were haha. omg I feel old now

[lew!]

lool i head of D&D, Never really intrested though.. Sounded like a bit of a geeks game (of what ive seen on tv anywayu)

[jesus]

rip.
& what a number to die at.I was thinking that too, haha.

RIP fella!

[Muniflex]

Mm R.I.P

And i'm not sayig it is but it is percieved to be a bit of a geek game on the tele.

Couple of my mates used to play it, wasn't my thing...

[Pyroka]

It was a geeks game, REDNECK used to play it lol. Meh, it's famous though.

[FlyingJesus]

It's extremely geeky but if you got a good imagination it's really fun

[Dan2nd]

Lol I've never played it but have heard of it RIP dude who invented it