Well, Gary Gygax died.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest I always found the D&D mythology interesting, and I was into it for a few years. He really created something that other people found fulfilling and not many folks can say that. I'll refrain from making a D&D joke but I will say this; At least it wasn't a gazebo.
Starjammers and Planescape were great.