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Gary Gygax

March 7, 2008 8:11 pm

I wasn’t sure if I was going to post about the passing of Gary Gygax. I came to role playing just as 2nd Edition AD&D took hold so many of his classic works past me by. However the hobby he was one of the founders of has been an influence on my life along with many others and for that I mourn his passing. Clearly I’m not alone…

• Dark Dwarf
• John August
• Steve Jackson
• What is Aegis Prime?

A couple of cartoon tributes on…

• XKCD
• Order of the Stick

And finally more obituries than I was expecting…

• The Guardian
• BBC
• The Independent
• The New York Times
• The Times
• A second shorter article from The Times
• Wired