This is being reported on his Wikipedia article, but I haven't seen any verification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax
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Gary Gygax RIP?
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From the SJGames forums (Yuku's mangling my links again - http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=37161 ):
Quote:The original note was from the head of Troll Lords Games (who were working with him on his most recent writings), and confirmed by Jolly Blackburn over at Kenzer. Then, later on in the thread: Quote:... he passed on GM's Day. Somehow, that is appropriate.I don't have anything else to add to that... Rob Kelk -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012  
Looks like we have our Tri-Fecta of talented geek deaths for the day... damn it.
The news has made the Register, who got it from CNN.
Forbes has a report, too. And the Dork Tower site's colour scheme has gone black in memoriam. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
<head bowed, hat over heart>
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
<shuffles restlessly from one foot to other hoping to mask a sob>
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Requieat en Pachem, oh great one...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html#
OoTS says it all. _________________________________ Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
He got a mini-obit -- with a sound byte, too! -- on CBS national radio news this morning at 7AM Eastern. Amazingly, it was second slot behind the primaries, and before the storms that hit the northeast overnight.
I guess that means RPGs really are mainstream now... -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
There's nothing left to do but check his XP value and go through his pockets.
...What? I think he'd have wanted it that way. --Sam "You enter a 10x10 room. An orc is guarding a chest."
I don't know why everyone's so upset, he'll just roll up a new character, right? A post on another message board I read made the point about how
much of modern culture has been effected by D&D. Outside of the paper and dice games themselves, all of the roleplaying video games, numerous book and comic series, and more than a few rock bands and songs were influenced by D&D.
The requisite jokes have started to appear: 25 Gaming Euphemisms for Gary Gygax's death.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Without Dungeons & Dragons, no Slayers or a lot of other anime.
I wonder if the Conan movies and He-Man would have even started without that boost from D & D -------------------- Tom Mathews aka Disruptor 
Penny Arcade has a very nice salute. Order of
the Stick was pretty damned good, too. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Two more notable salutes: Peter Hartlaub, in the San Fransisco Chronicle, and Stephen Colbert, on the Colbert Report.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Today's http://xkcd.com/ is just exactly right.
"Not this again!" Minerva said. "Albus, it was You-Know-Who, not you, who marked Harry as his equal. There is no possible way that the prophecy could be talking about you!" - Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality, Chapter 84
And xkcd for the win.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
User Friendly has posted what's possibly the geekiest tribute yet.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 |
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