Geek God Passing.
9 March 2008 - 3 אדר ב' 5768 by Huw
Gary Gygax write up in the New York Times:
GARY GYGAX died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.
I’m not talking about the cosmological, Big Bang part. Everyone who reads blogs knows that a flying spaghetti monster made all that. But Mr. Gygax co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons, and on that foundation of role-playing and polyhedral dice he constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world.
RIP Gary. :( Even newbie gamers are sad :(
There have been some very nice tributes to Mr. Gygax on-line from gamers and cartoonists.