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You helped many kids through the high school years, as did the books and games that were invented and will be invented because of your influence on our world. You are the perfect example of the change that one person can bring about in the world. When i make the journey you have made i hope to meet and game with you.
On behalf of those that love you and your games
Thank you, and you will be missed.

God speed

Gaming psychology: quantifying ability, thought, and deed into a coherent system. Gary Gygax did this and thus shaped computer gaming engines more than any formula or complex equation. His was a mechanism that could be cast in paper, pencil and dice, or cast in digitized form.

His influence was immense and extreme, and he was charming and charismatic, dextrous and wise.

We will miss you, Gary.

Paul
antiaging4geeks.com (a site in no small part influenced by the great Dungeon Master himself!)

In any case, thanks for everything, D&D truly enriched my life.

Godspeed

For that priceless gift, Gary, I have to thank you with all my heart. May you be in peace forever.

JFC
Quebec City

My senior year of high school we had to write a poem, and I hated the thought of having to do it. I was angry and decided I would write something about one of my characters. Our teacher read a few of them back to us while we closed our eyes and let the word ‘draw a picture’ for us. Mine was the last read and by the end every eye in the class was open, probably trying to ‘erase’ the imagery of the dark, rainy medieval night I created. My friend (and regular DM) and I could barely keep from laughing at the class reaction to something from ‘that silly game’ as they called it. It was the easiest and most memorable “A” I ever earned.

Had I met Gary in person I could never have thanked him enough for the imagination exercises, the history lessons, fun and all that they have lead to. Hopefully when I get to the gates, I’ll make my save and there will be room at his table for me to play.

But being the only girl in the gaming section has been a little weird at times!!
Thank goodness there are other girls gaming now.

You opened my mind, saved my sanity as a teenage, without D&D I would never have found the si-fi fantisy section in the book store, found the SCA, or found my first husband, our 3 children, learned to argue the rules! or found the best set of friends in college - d&d for 10+ hours a night in the lafollette commons.

RPG may not be the end-all-be-all in life, but it has sure made life interesting.

Rerolling??

RIP

We were not alone in this, numerous pen and paper games were published within a year or two, many if not most actually better than D&D. Fantasy games, Western games, Science Fiction games all poured on to the shelves of our local hobby store, and we bought them, modified them and played them. Over the years the genre changed, first with pre-built “modules” that took a lot of the creative element out of the games, and later with the migration to the computer that took most of the rest of the player generated content and modifications out.

We found the changes vaguely troubling, though that hasn’t kept us from playing many of these wonderful new games. But the experience has morphed from a more active one to a more passive one, like the difference between reading a book and watching television, or in the case of former game designers / game masters like myself the difference between writing a book and watching television. So I’d like to thank Gary Gygax for not only spawning a movement which is still growing and changing, but also for being there at the right time so that I was able to taste the fruits of being not only a consumer, but a creator.

You took a shy and desperately lonely young man, led him to a way that he could share the world of his imagination and changed his life. You let me met strange and interesting people and found they were to become great friends.

I still have the newspaper clipping where I started the first Role Playing Guild in my home town, I was more than surprised when 200 kids turned up.

I still remember the look on the faces of the local police when they found my lost D&D books and thought they had discovered the leader of a Satanic cult, it took an improv’d game with them before they were convinced I was innocent enough but some how I never managed to lived that rumour down with the churches in town…

Thanks for the memories and the life you allowed me to create.

You will be sadly missed…

So it seems like a million years ago I was the dungeon master for the mishaps at my school…and when I look back on that time, it’s with the strangest stew of memories; hope, terror, regret, and the deep sweetness of victory only those who have literally spent their last gold piece can possibly know. I think this is how Adam and Eve must have felt, in some small way…Surely they looked back at Eden, don’t you think, as they started barefoot down the path to where we are now, in our glum political world of wars, terrorism, and blue-ray DVDs? Sure, I think they must have wanted one more look at the world they had lost, with its sweet-water and kind-hearted talking animals.

And it’s snake, of course.

Asta, my friend.

Mr. Gygax is now the DM for the GODS make them play fair?

your friend,

Brian Williams

“Imagination is more important than Knowledge” - Albert Einstein

Everyone up there better get their dice ready… the Master of Masters is coming to DM.

The Party discovered treasure.

Thanks for helping create the game that my friends and I spend so many, many
moons playing.

Ah, Gary. Nice touch, that.