RIP post

[clayse]

I've never made a RIP post before.   After the spate of Elliot Smith-themed posts a few years back and all the Heath Ledger posts recently, I just have a bad taste from people posting up requiems for celebrities.

But Gary Gygax died today.

He made DnD.  Without him and his brave contemporaries, you wouldn't have G4.  You wouldn't have Weezer.  You

Comments

[bruski]

I guess he failed his saving throw. (Sorry, but I couldn't resist.)

[hxcpunkchick]

I still can't quite believe it.

While I never got to meet the guy in person, I did have the chance to meet him through a message board I'm on. He really was an awesome guy.

[clayse]

Yeah, I'd never interacted with him- not from any desire not to- I had just assumed he was inaccessible. Turns out he was a pretty down-to-earth guy.