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Building a Gary Gygax Memorial

Posted by samzenpus on from the die-20-in-the-sky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like approval to build a memorial to E. Gary Gygax has been granted in Lake Geneva City, Wisconsin. The Gygax Memorial Fund is still taking donations for the memorial that may begin construction as early as later this year. I (like many on Slashdot) spent many years of my youth using Gygax inspired creations as an excuse to socialize, roll dice, and eat chips at impromptu gatherings before computers intruded on the RPG realms."

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  1. Detailed map? by charlieo88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will the map be on plain square graph paper or since it's outdoors, will it be on hexagonal graph paper?

  2. It damn well better... by cthellis · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...be underground.
    ...have traps leading up to it.
    ...have someone narrating your way.
    ...involve a strength check to open the door.
    ...force you to roll dice constantly.

  3. Re:Who is Gary Gygax? by Captain+Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would it have been so hard to use the summary to reveal who Gary Gygax is? It's not like he's a famous geek like John Bardeen.

    I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask you to turn in your geek card. You... (rolls dice) ...disgust me.

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  4. A more profound effect than one might recall by Krishnoid · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Reminds me of this old post and my small contribution to it. I had to rewind quite a bit to recognize how fundamentally D&D shaped my model of reality. It allowed kids to test the waters of having an adult level of power, responsibility, and open-ended freedom of action in what was effectively a hostile wilderness; a world with rules but where the rule of laws of nature, God, magic, and morality were called out explicitly and which overrode the rule of the law of man, in contrast to how those laws subtly-to-overtly shape the law of man in the modern world. And all in the days before computer simulations of the same.

    Incidentally, it's a 503(c) organization -- tax-deductible in the US.

  5. Dave Arneson by __aanonl8035 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope the memorial succeeds. I believe Gary Gygas deserves one. I also believe Dave Arneson should get one. It is often glossed over that Dave Arneson was the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. I have read different postings concerning the origins of Dungeons & Dragons, and many of them point to the main idea of it was created by Dave Arneson, and Gary came along and said that it could be made into a product. Then Garry spent a long time categorizing the rules and expanding them. What a great game it was!

  6. Re:Who is Gary Gygax? by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was out having sex AND playing D&D - you loser

    Sounds fun! I put on my robe and wizard hat.

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