03-05-2008, 05:41 AM
I think, like many, I was first introduced to Gary Gygax with Dungeons & Dragons way back when. My cousins introduced me to the game ad I took to it, like many from my generation.It was a simple game, really, and that was it's charm. Sure, role-play could be lost in the dice rolls and at times it lost all real sense of the realistic, but for a kid of the 80s, it filled a niche. Even today my friends and I will get together and quickly put together a short adventure.I learned tonight, as I opened up the Order of the Stick, that G. Gary Gygax passed away at age 69. thank you, Gary, for developing D&D those many years ago. You had a great and positive impact on the lives of many.
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And I will bring an extra pint -- B. Bragg
Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. -- Grover Cleveland
When the laws are used to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government -- Andrew Jackson
"Capitalism takes no prisoners and kills competition where it can." -- Vince Cable