Tribute: Ernest Gary Gygax

It's been like, what, about a month since Mr. Gary Gygax passed away. He was 70. He's the father of Dungeons and Dragons, which is the very backbone of role playing game that exists today. I mean, table top role playing game.

I never knew who he was until I read about his passing.

And while I read his biography, something came to me: If he didn't make such a great role playing concept:

1. We would all go on with our boring nine to five lives without adventurous adventures, slaying dragons and finding loot.
2. Weekend Talisman games with my friends would never have happened. We would be stuck playing mahjong for years.
3. The Warcraft series would never have been released. Heck, a lot of awesome role playing games would cease to exist. Mario would dominate the world!
4. Geeks would forever be at the very bottom of the social caste because they would have virtually no lives. What would their lives revolve around, Star Trek?
5. There'd be no more D&D parodies like, "I put on my Shirt of charisma +5, rolled a natural 20 on my sex appeal check with that hot chick and scored!".

I'm having trouble thinking up more. I wanted it to be kinda funny but it was got more depressing. Heh.

Anyway, he said, "I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else." That was awesome. Really.

Sometimes I wonder could I ever contribute to the world as he did?

1:24 PM - 3/29/2008 - post comment