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Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:52 am
by TheRook
For those who know of him he passed away 4th MArch 08 (yesterday)
here is a page for those wondering who he is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_GygaxRIP.
its a sad time for gaming.
TheRook
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:03 am
by Darkalbino_
He was on that futurama episode aye
Hey there!
It is *rolls dice*
*pause* nice to meet you!
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:26 am
by Mordack
Why would a mod, of all people, post this in SGW general?
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:37 am
by Vendetta
Mordack wrote:Why would a mod, of all people, post this in SGW general?
Because, like everyone else who posts random threads in SGW general, he wants it to get more views.
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:54 am
by Mordack
Vendetta wrote:Mordack wrote:Why would a mod, of all people, post this in SGW general?
Because, like everyone else who posts random threads in SGW general, he wants it to get more views.
Yes, but those threads are usually moved as soon as a moderator notices them. I find it a little strange that a member of the forum staff would deliberately post something in the wrong section like this, but there we go.
And I heard Gygax was still hosting D&D at 89 years of age. That's pretty crazy.
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:18 am
by Vendetta
Mordack wrote:Vendetta wrote:Mordack wrote:Why would a mod, of all people, post this in SGW general?
Because, like everyone else who posts random threads in SGW general, he wants it to get more views.
Yes, but those threads are usually moved as soon as a moderator notices them. I find it a little strange that a member of the forum staff would deliberately post something in the wrong section like this, but there we go.
And I heard Gygax was still hosting D&D at 89 years of age. That's pretty crazy.
Eh, mods have been posting threads in the wrong sections for a long time
It's not really causing any harm so im not botherd by it. But then im not everyone
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:35 am
by Darkalbino_
Mordack wrote:Vendetta wrote:Mordack wrote:Why would a mod, of all people, post this in SGW general?
And I heard Gygax was still hosting D&D at 89 years of age. That's pretty crazy.
He only lived to 69 lol
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:45 am
by FreeSpirit
Judochop wrote:Mods are some of the biggest wasters of time on these boards.
Thank you 
Moved to this that those.
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:51 am
by TheRook
I'm glad to see people ignoring something quite substantial in favour of saying how stupid I am...
Cheers
Also I put it in SGW General as SGW is a Role Playing Game... a MMORPG... he helped co-create DnD and as such one of foundations that EVERY role play game and MMORPG and fantasy game has a basis in...
thats why I assumed general would be a good place... but its in here now...
no problems caused
TheRook
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:39 am
by Mordack
Yeah.. I typed wrong. I meant 69.
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:34 pm
by vinny d
I would argue that in an off way this man helped SGW come to being. Since he is the father of role playing and sgw is a role playing game they are connected in a slight way.
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:43 pm
by BELISKNER
Judochop wrote:I killed it.
You kill everything and then put a DNR order on it lol
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:33 am
by kurnous
The first Dungeon master is dead. The creator of fantasy gaming has passed away.
This game exists cos of that great mans idea and imagination.
Please guys show a little respect.
He has changed many peoples lives since 1974 when he relised the first ever version of Dungeons and Dradons. Since then a whole industry has been created, games have been desinged and fantasy has been made a little more tangable for the durration of you game
Just about every body who plays this game knows about role play games, many of them will have played them at some time or another as well.
If any body thinkgs that Gary Gygax death is nothing to do with SGW then stop playing a fantasy game!
Dugeon master, I look forward to seeing up there and having a game with you at some point
Start wrighting the story now so that its finished when I get there
Ill bring the munchies, you run the game mate
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:03 am
by Eternal Usul
It is a sad, sad day for gamerkind...
I played DnD a few times...never enough to really get into it...(too complex for a table top game in my opinion), but it was the inspiration behind my own game, Chronicle...and so many others...
He WILL be missed...or there WILL be pain... >:(
*j/k*
Really though...very sad...
Re: Gary Gygax the father of Role playing
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:09 am
by cyberblade
though I never played DnD I appreciate the huge influence he had in my life and that of many other fellow geeks and gamers.
here are some of the tributes that I liked the best:
http://xkcd.org/393/http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1093http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080309RIP Gary.