Gary Gygax is Dead
It’s not often a person can be said to have changed the world in any way. Gygax was one such person. I’m only a small time gamer, but I know that all the RPGs I’ve played are based on that game he created in the 1970s. Tolkien may have been the inspiration, but it took Gygax to make fantasy into a game.
‘Tis a pity that the man who invented the saving roll in the end rolled badly against cancer. If there is an afterlife, I’d like to think that Gygax is there putting up his screen and inviting the angels to roll up characters…
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