Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax dies at 69

Yet more sad news today

Guitarist Jeff Healey dies of cancer at 41 -- Newsday.com

All teh best people are dying

Gygak was so diehard he was playing D&D weekly up until this january
Sucks. He helped create a huge genre that did not really exist before.
Who the hell needed a d20 before D&D

it really sucked that I woke up to the new of Jeff Healey's death yesterday morning. I wasn't really a fan of his, but he was an excellent guitarist for a blind guy.

Gary Gygax's death is another loss to a genre that wouldn't really exist if it weren't for him. I am sure that the whole D&D world is mourning his loss and might be remembered at the next few D&D clubs going on around the world

I'm thinking of doing an old-fashioned dungeon crawl this Sunday in memoriam, with a dragon down on the bottom level...heck, I could even dust off my old 1st edition books for it.

Healey was an amazing guitarist. I remember hearing he had health problems, but I didn't realize they were that bad. Now Gygax, I knew, was headed downhill, but he's been so far out of the loop lately I hadn't heard much concerning his condition.

That would be really cool, but I think a single day wouldn't cute it. That would need to be a weekender

WOW! when were you in reno??

been awhile, but what can I say!

"I'm wearing boots of escaping! I'm wearing boots of escaping!"

Hehehe...I usually don't find that show funny, but the ones where they have that LARPing geek squad are hilarious.

I've talked over the guys I do games with, most of them don't really know d+d but are interested in doing a game.

there was only one guy who doesn't live around us any more who did d20 and he's buggered off.

apparently he also sucked at d+d DMing. did campaigns where people died in 1 shot from the first monster.... :|

So, i've taken on the task of writing and DM'ing a short dungeon campaign for a few people

Luckily my friend has all the books i need (since mine were stolen) and I'm gonna run a short crawl hopefully in the next couple of weeks. was gonna be today but had to work on the van. i look forward to it, my first go at dm'ing.