that brief obit kind of says it all. Right down to "I haven't really grokked it yet" and the other quote from the "ceo of troll lord games."
aimai
Posted by aimai at March 4, 2008 03:26 PMI never grokked the book, it has to be one of the most useless adjectives in the English language.
***hrrmm*** Please excuse me.
Rest in peace, Mr. Gygax. I never grokked any of it but I know you did so good. Real good, sir.
Posted by paradox at March 4, 2008 04:55 PMI'm bummed.
Posted by idiosynchronic at March 4, 2008 04:56 PMTonight, this old D and D player says "What a shame that reserection spells aren't real."
Posted by herbal tee at March 4, 2008 06:02 PMDorks!
Posted by snark at March 4, 2008 07:48 PMre D&D dead.
in the 1980's my sons and their friends played d&d endlessly. it was the intellectual and emotional heart of sleep-overs. the "game", really an imaginary journey, began on friday evening and continued thru saturday and sometimes into sunday, between soccer and dukes of hazard, and god knows what else neither my wife of i nor other parents, knew or needed to know.
i never understood a bit of it, but i understood it's a great game of the imagination.
and we still have some of the dice -
could one have been twenty-sided? i can't quite recall.
maybe some of our grand-children will take up the essential challenge of a "dangerous" adventure.
anyway, from a practical parenting perspective,
it beat the hell out of teevee.
Posted by orionATL at March 4, 2008 08:20 PMIt came from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"... good, now I can sleep. I would've woke up at 3 AM with the answer.
Posted by Seven of Six at March 4, 2008 10:19 PMIn the 70s we used to take the bunnies from the Lake Geneva Playboy Club water skiing and sometimes we would get lucky and grok them.
Thanks for bring back some grokking good memories.
Posted by TIKI AL at March 4, 2008 11:05 PMorionATL, no doubt some of the dice would have been 20-sided. I'm surprised you haven't found the stash of 4-sided, 8-sided, 10-sided and 12-sided dice that are commonly used in roll-playing games. Did you find the dice crayons sometimes used to fill in the numbers on the dice faces?
Posted by PrahaPartizan at March 5, 2008 09:59 AM