The day Gary E. Gygax died
Saturday, March 8th, 2008While we were discussing Warlords Gary E. Gygax passed away.
Without him, there wouldn’t be Warlord. In fact, there wouldn’t be WoW. Or roleplaying. Or any of the many fantasy inspired games we all enjoy.
Gary Gygax invented a whole industry by publishing the first rules for Dungeons & Dragons.
My own first contact with D&D was with the Red and Blue boxes, freshly translated into German. We didn’t really know what Role-Playing was back then, but the idea of going out to have adventures, slay Dragons, and live what we previously had only read in books, immensely appealed to my friends and me. I was 14 at the time.
Years - and a huge amount of RPG and fantasy books putting permanent bends in the boards holding them - later I am in charge of trying to give you - the Warlord players - just a fraction of the entertainment Gary Gygax made possible for us. Something to remember.
Thank you, Mr. Gygax!
Gary Gygax passed away on March 4th, 2008 at the age of 69.
