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Hackfest
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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: Gary Gygax dead at 69 |
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Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. Good times in high school with that game.
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Kizzume
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He certainly is a big part of the history of gaming.
One thing I took note of in an article http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/report-gary-gyg.html
| Quote: | | Gygax was not directly involved with Dungeons & Dragons after 1985, and his relationship with his former company, TSR Inc., was not friendly at first. The company sued him over his competing game Dangerous Journeys, and in a 2004 interview with GameSpy he stated that he was "pleased to say" that he thought the cost of the suit and settlement drove TSR to sell the rights to the game. |
It's sad that things had taken such a radically different direction than his vision did with TSR.
At least some of his original vision can never really be forgotten--his concepts are still what most RPG's are based on, whether loosely or not.
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