Gary Gygax has died

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
A sad day for gamers. Without D&D we might never have had:

Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate I - II
Star Wars: KOTOR I - II (used D&D rules)
"Gold Box" games
Neverwinter Nights

plus non-computer D&D of course.

And we could have lived without those titles anyway.

 

[rpanic]

guess he didn't make that last saving throw.

RIP

Many a dice lost to you, and a million calories of junk eaten in your name in the middle of the night where no women go (except trolls).

 

[Michael]

RIP, Gary.

Michael

 

[Kelemvor]

And to think. D&D spawned, MUDs, MUDs spawned EQ, EQ spawned every other MMORPG out there.

RIP. I best there's a HUGE turn out at Gen Con this year.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
A sad day for gamers. Without D&D we might never have had:

Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate I - II
Star Wars: KOTOR I - II (used D&D rules)
"Gold Box" games
Neverwinter Nights

plus non-computer D&D of course.

And we could have lived without those titles anyway.

Bah, say what you will about the others, but KOTOR was great.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

Why ?
The games of D&D I played showed me another world.
It taught me to think about gaming in a whole new way.
This was way before the internet or pc games.

Before Gygax the only games people played with dice were monopoly.
It taught me concepts like map making, working out statistics for characters, and how to write creatively.

I can tell you never played D&D.
Imagine a game that existed in the minds of the players, versus having to be spoon fed it off a pc screen.

How is any of that sad.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

Why ?
The games of D&D I played showed me another world.
It taught me to think about gaming in a whole new way.
This was way before the internet or pc games.

Before Gygax the only games people played with dice were monopoly.
It taught me concepts like map making, working out statistics for characters, and how to write creatively.

The creaters of companies like bioware all attribute it to D&D.

How is any of that sad.

its not D&D was great, all you needed was an imagination

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

Why ?
The games of D&D I played showed me another world.
It taught me to think about gaming in a whole new way.
This was way before the internet or pc games.

Before Gygax the only games people played with dice were monopoly.
It taught me concepts like map making, working out statistics for characters, and how to write creatively.

The creaters of companies like bioware all attribute it to D&D.

How is any of that sad.

its not D&D was great, all you needed was an imagination

What would you know about imagination ?
Your too busy playing games that require none.

 

[Babbles]

I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager playing D&D. It probably did more to develop my math skills than anything I did in school - damn you THAC0. His imagination lead to so many game concepts that are taken for granted today.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

Why ?
The games of D&D I played showed me another world.
It taught me to think about gaming in a whole new way.
This was way before the internet or pc games.

Before Gygax the only games people played with dice were monopoly.
It taught me concepts like map making, working out statistics for characters, and how to write creatively.

The creaters of companies like bioware all attribute it to D&D.

How is any of that sad.

its not D&D was great, all you needed was an imagination

Sure, that's all it was... don't see why rules would help at all for a game.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Anubis
ive played tons of RPGs and never heard of him...

Ditto. Though if you mentioned Nobuo Uematsu I would know that guy.

But it's pretty freaking sad OP if your teen years were influenced highly by some dude that made D&D.

Why ?
The games of D&D I played showed me another world.
It taught me to think about gaming in a whole new way.
This was way before the internet or pc games.

Before Gygax the only games people played with dice were monopoly.
It taught me concepts like map making, working out statistics for characters, and how to write creatively.

The creaters of companies like bioware all attribute it to D&D.

How is any of that sad.

its not D&D was great, all you needed was an imagination

What would you know about imagination ?
Your too busy playing games that require none.

uh... i think he was agreeing with you that it's not sad

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Gary Gygax HP = 0

RIP

Actually with advanced rules much less than 0.

Sucks...I got my first basic set in 1980ish at about 9 or 10 from a garage sale. Later bought the expert set and later the original and later edition AD&D books.

I wish I held on to them the originals are worth a pretty penny.

 

[Jeff7]

He made it to Giant in the Playground Games.

 

[FoBoT]

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

 

[AndrewR]

Wow, didn't realize he was so old. I remember getting the Basic rules in 1980 or so for Christmas. Funny thing is that I just sold my 2nd Edition books last summer at a garage sale. That was the last real edition before they started getting bizarre.

RIP, Gary.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Gary Gygax HP = 0

RIP

LOL at HP = 0.

RIP GG.

 

[Paratus]

I believe I had a ranger cleric with a resurrection spell maybe we can bring him back

RIP

 

[ppdes]

I saw a quote from him the other day: "The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG where a player can play any alignment desired, not just lawful good."

Sounds like his invention got bastardized.

 

[Lovepig]

RIP Gygax

 

[Inspector Jihad]

all the grand shamans and dystopian thunder mages are saddened by this.

 

[tk149]

Dungeons and Dragons Online (MMORPG) mourns - By the way, Gary actually voiced the narration for one of the modules, "Delera's tomb."

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: tk149
Dungeons and Dragons Online (MMORPG) mourns - By the way, Gary actually voiced the narration for one of the modules, "Delera's tomb."

Did Gary approve of DDO? I guess he did if he voiced a narration for it.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: ppdes
I saw a quote from him the other day: "The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG where a player can play any alignment desired, not just lawful good."

Sounds like his invention got bastardized.

Yeah, I quite agree. It started happening in the mid-90s, but really got out of control after Wizards bought them out. The 3rd edition rules are fine for a PC RPG, but I wouldn't want to try using them in a tabletop game.

 

[Finalnight]

I think a 21 Magic Missile salute is in order.