Building a Gary Gygax Memorial

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."

Comments

Detailed map?

[charlieo88]

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

It damn well better...

[cthellis]

...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.

Re:Who is Gary Gygax?

[Captain Spam]

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.

A more profound effect than one might recall

[Krishnoid]

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.

Re:Who is Gary Gygax?

[Abstrackt]

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

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