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Subject: Gary Gygax, dies at 69
Posted by: sarge33rd
- [99331714] Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 14:54
Gary Gygax
Some say creator of and some say thief. I dont know the truth of it, but do know Dungeona and Dragons was recognized as "his baby". Most certainly, its his legacy. |
| 1 | Seattle Zen
ID: 49112418
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:05
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I started playing as a wee lad back in 1981 when I asked my cousin what were those strange shaped dice. The game appeared in my life when I really wanted something complicated and exciting and I do feel that my pre-teen years were enriched as a result.
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| 2 | Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 454491514
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:11
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Ditto.
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| 3 | biliruben
ID: 5610442715
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:17
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Got old and forget to "check for traps" before opening his final chest.
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| 4 | sarge33rd
ID: 99331714
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:25
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^ least you didnt say...he failed his saving throw.
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| 5 | Great One
ID: 27154129
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:31
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Quit living in a fantasy world guys! quit playing silly games in an alternate reality.
Now if I could just find a decent SS for for my fake baseball team. It keeps me up at night! :)
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| 6 | Tree
ID: 3533298
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:36
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big part of my youth, growing up in the 80s with my younger brothers.
definitely a cultural institution, and even used as a great plot device on the classic tv show "Freaks and Geeks"...
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| 7 | Khahan
ID: 486552412
Tue, Mar 04, 2008, 15:59
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I know I owe Mr. Gygax a huge thank you for for D&D. I don't know how much free time I spent as a teenager and even into my early 20's playing his game.
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| 8 | Texas Flood
ID: 142267
Thu, Mar 06, 2008, 09:02
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I have great memories of playing D & D with my son, his friends
and a couple of other dads. Gygax was a great story teller!
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| 9 | holt
ID: 341542412
Tue, May 20, 2008, 01:56
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Next time I hear someone associate D&D with nerds and geeks I swear I'm gonna strike em down with my vorpal weapon!
Seriously though. It gets old hearing people who know next to nothing about the game write it off as an activity for dorks. I remember being around 10 years old and stumbling upon my uncles stack of D&D books. I must have spent hours looking through those monster manuals. Remember the Githyanki pic on the front of the Fiends Folio? haha
I mean, maybe I was a dork, but in my mind I was a kid trapped in a dull world with no surprises when what I really wanted to be was a knight saving damsels from dragons and goblin hordes. Thanks to Gary Gygax for everything he gave us, and screw all those unimaginative overly-self-conscious name-callers. If all my friends weren't married, over-worked, and/or spread all over the United States, I'd call em up and run a game in his honor. Blah.
Cya Gary.
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| 10 | Khahan
ID: 486552412
Sat, May 24, 2008, 08:28
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"If all my friends weren't married, over-worked, and/or spread all over the United States, I'd call em up and run a game in his honor. Blah"
Couldn't agree more.
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| 11 | Tree
ID: 22442249
Sat, May 24, 2008, 10:47
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when i was 12, my dad, step-mom, brother, and two step-brothers took a family trip my step-mother's parents' house in orlando.
my dad and step-mom had been married for maybe a year, and my brothers and i were all still getting to know each other.
i still have memories of all four of us sitting there around a gigantic oak dining room table, and my step-bro Ben sat there with the monster manual, player guide, and a few other books, as we all created characters to play Keep on the Borderlands.
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| 12 | holt
ID: 341542412
Sat, May 24, 2008, 12:01
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haha. keep on the borderlands/caves of chaos. first module I ever "played". no role-playing involved. just lots of dice-rolling to hack up bugbears, lizardmen, and goblins.
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| 13 | allhair allstars
Sustainer
ID: 50902421
Sun, Jun 01, 2008, 23:30
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I obsessed on AD&D as a kid, to the point that had to go completely underground to avoid scrutiny from my parents. I don't think they minded my playing so much as the time I was putting into it. I still have a bunch of modules and my Monster Manual and DMG are looong gone, but for some strange reason I still have the Deities and Demigods book. I only have one adult acquaintance that still plays, and he swears that the current version of rules is far superior to the original rules and books, but I have a hard time imagining that. I never played past high school, but I have very fond memories of the game - buying my first set of dice, my excitement when the first 10-sided came out on the market (and I sharing too much? LOL), and playing my first module (B2). Ah, youth.
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| 14 | biliruben
ID: 33258140
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 12:38
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I had a pretty fair obsession, but my Sci-Fi obsession was stronger.
When Barrier Peaks came out, it was the best of both worlds! It was too far advanced for most of my characters, so I ended up shredding a lot of low level characters when they ran into alien technologies.
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| 15 | Tree
ID: 3533298
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 12:42
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S3! in all black!
Barrier peaks
and for good measure, Keep on the Borderlands...
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| 16 | Mattinglyinthehall
Dude
ID: 01629107
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 12:46
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I don't recall Barrier Peaks. I had the Star Frontiers basic set but my AD&D playing friends and I couldn't get into it.
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| 17 | Mattinglyinthehall
Dude
ID: 01629107
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 12:47
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Ah - it was a module. Come to think of it I do recall that one. Never played it tho.
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| 18 | holt
ID: 341542412
Mon, Jun 02, 2008, 17:00
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I remember buying barrier peaks at a game shop in a mall in norman, oklahoma. it was slightly gamma world'ish. a space ship buried in a mountain. if I remember correctly, it had flow charts that used dice rolls to determine if your character could learn to use certain technological devices (like gamma world?).
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| 19 | holt
ID: 341542412
Tue, Jun 03, 2008, 19:07
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from Robin Williams' wiki page:
Williams is an avid enthusiast of games, enjoying pen-and-paper role-playing games and online video games, recently playing Warcraft 3, Day of Defeat, Half-Life, and the first-person shooter Battlefield 2 as a sniper. His daughter, Zelda, is named after Princess Zelda from the Legend of Zelda series of video games.
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| 20 | holt
ID: 341542412
Tue, Jun 03, 2008, 19:14
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more proof that D&D isn't just for ultra-nerds. not entirely anyway. :D
Tim Duncan's wiki page:
Duncan also loves renaissance fairs and the fantasy role playing game Dungeons & Dragons. An avid video game player, he acknowledges a certain joy of playing "himself" on basketball video games.
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| 21 | sarge33rd
ID: 99331714
Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 10:34
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Still have a big ole bag of multi-colored, multi-sided die. And a gym bag, the contents of which are: 2 DMG, 2 PHB, 1 MM, 1 Dieties and Demigods, 1 Outdoor Wilderness Survival Guide and misc "other" items which escape my memory atm.
MANY, fond memories of sitting aorund the table with 4 or 5 other friends. The LT was our DM. Another Officer was in the group and a couple Sgts like myself. Doritos flowed, imaginations ran wild, and Mt Dew disappeared in abundance. :)
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| 22 | holt
ID: 341542412
Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 20:45
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I was looking through some boxes in the garage yesterday and I'm wondering where the hell all my stuff went to. at one time I had a nice stack of d&d books. must have left em at a friend's house or something. no idea. I do still have a few books and modules, and a decent stack of books from other game systems that I never played much. no gamma world or boot hill books in sight though. : (
incidentally, one of the best campaigns I ever ran was a Boot Hill game placed in the civil war era. the guys intercepted the shipment of the first Gatling gun prototype. I shouldn't have underestimated their ingenuity. ohhh the things that can be done with a gatling gun and several cases of dynamite. lmao
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| 23 | Texas Flood
ID: 5054413
Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 22:58
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I'm currently playing Neverwinter nights on my Mac. It's a D & D
based game, great story line and overall one of the best games I've
played since the Baldur's Gate series. I would recommend it to all
who need a D & D fix!
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| 24 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 12:22
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Yeah, played NWN and Baldur's Gate. Very good for the genre, but I lean towards real-time strategy. Anyone know when Starcraft II is coming out? Starcraft best PC-based game of all time, imho.
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| 25 | Mattinglyinthehall
Dude
ID: 01629107
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 12:26
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World of Warcraft player here.
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| 26 | sarge33rd
ID: 99331714
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 12:31
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Still have and occassionally play BG and BGII. Tried NWN when it first came out and just didnt care for it. *shrug* Blizzard let me down with their inability/refusal to deal with hackers etc on B-Net with D2. Have so far steadfastly refused to do WoW because of that.
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| 27 | biliruben
ID: 4911361723
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 13:00
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I fear the MMPRPG. That, I don't have the time.
Hopefully Starcraft II won't go that route. If so, I'd have to pass.
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| 28 | Balrog
Dude
ID: 02856618
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 13:12
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Anybody play the old gold box DND games (like Pool of Radiance) on the Commodore 64 like I did? It was unbelievably cool at the time.
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| 29 | sarge33rd
ID: 99331714
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 13:46
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sure nuff did B! Cant even recall the titles, but had about 1/2 dz of those "top down" games.
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| 30 | Khahan
ID: 46121614
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 15:09
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MITH, I recently discovered WoW (I was an addicted MuDDer for over a decade and swore I would never try WoW once I got married and had kids). My wife bought it for me for my birthday (and we have since purchased a second copy and a second computer!). I play on Alexstraza if anybody else is around that server. Shouldn't be too hard to pick me out.
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| 31 | Mattinglyinthehall
Dude
ID: 01629107
Thu, Jun 05, 2008, 15:34
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The server I'm on is Moonrunner. Lvl 59 Gnome Rogue, been playing since Feb 2007. I'm embarrassingly bad at battleground fighting which (even more embarrassingly) is probably my favorite part of the game so far. I've put it down for long stretches though, and am a little too reluctant to accostom myself to new skills when I learn them.
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