Love it or hate it, lots of people played Dungeons and Dragons over the years and all the spin off games that owe so much to the original. I met some of my oldest and best friends through D&D and today's modern equivalents such as MMORPGs and 1st person shooter games also owe much to the vision of this man.
Now personally after playing for a few years, it started to really annoy me with all its inconsistencies, but it was still the first real attempt to formalise a coherent methodology of role play and we can't take that away from him. Plus if we hadn't had all those issues with the games we wouldn't have had so many long involved arguments, which at the time seemed so important and now I just look back on so fondly.
For those of you who read my blog and were there, some of my favorite RPG moments:
- Bareg (aka Simon) falling off a tower so many damn times that he created a nice indentation in the ground
- The Paladin whose name I can't remember (aka the late Richard Bould), Bareg and a rather nasty trap
- Oh look there is a Catabl.................
- Slippery Jim, (aka me) and the chair that turned into a door
- The whole RPG experience that lead to Hirad Coldheart and The Raven
and in more modern times, I'll never forget:
- The damned Dam
- The tropical island with Jimi Hendrix sound effects
- The swamp and discovering you can't lie down in it "Too Deep!
...amongst many others.
RIP Gary Gygax, you gave the world something unique
1 comment:
A shame indeed. Never mind that D&D was a poor game system, it was the one that started it all. I certainly have a great deal to thank him for.
Wish I could remember that Paladin's name. It's probably on one of the graveyard sheets somewhere...
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