Run out of hit points

by Scoop Shachtman, 4 March 2008

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Gary Gygax has died.

Comments

  1. Will

    Never heard of him

  2. Eric

    That’s a good thing Will.

  3. dirigible

    Roll against Wisdom to discover that he was the inventor (with Dave Arneson) of Dungeons & Dragons.

  4. Will

    “Dungeons & Dragons”

    The game of choice for SWP members.

  5. Django

    Christ, couldn’t someone have put a warning on the link above, considering the obscenity it links to!

  6. Mustafa

    …with their psychological basis in inferiority and yearning, negated by hiding in the beards of clerics, prophets and reactionaries of all stripes.

    Fantastic. That’s my quote of the day. Hundal where are you?

  7. Roland Dodds

    I heard he was slain by an elf.

  8. Critical Hit

    “Jeez, get an editor”.

    Get an attention span. Now fuck off.

  9. Roger

    The man who gave us
    the random harlot generation table
    .

    Always happy to take the piss out of himself though - see his appearance in Futurama as one of Al Gore’s Vice Presidential Action Rangers.

    As a matter of interest the only SWPer I’ve know of who has admitted to playing Dungeons and Dragons is SF writer and occasional Lenin’s Tomb contributor China Mieville - who of course played it at public school.