Current mood:

sad

Good Bye, Uncle Gary
I still haven't fully wrapped my head around the passing of Gary Gygax. It's impossible to overestimate the influence his work had on games and, by osmosis, our culture. Tonight millions of people will log on to WoW, sit down at tables for a game of D&D or Magic, or put paint to metal on a Warhammer or Warmachine army, all because of EGG and the other trail blazers of his era.

Gary was like the cool gaming uncle to an entire generation. He told us about the fantasy and SF series we should be reading via his recommended book lists in the DMG. He told stories of his campaigns in the DMG and Dragon magazine, giving the game a sense of life that was a little hard to find when you were one of three gamers in a tiny New Hampshire town. He was an icon, the Godfather of Gaming, the first and original gamer.

He'll be missed.