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Gary Gygax rolls his last 20. - Click!
Today is a sad day for any geek, even if you never played Dungeons and Dragons.Ernest Gary Gygax, co-creator of DND, has rolled his last 20.
The entire community is crestfallen but has expressed their sorrow and their memories of a persons some called friend while others who have never played the game would have called him a friend just the same.
themocaw on the Penny Arcade Forums wrote this outstanding epitaph that is worth sharing.
Suddenly, things didn't hurt so much. The pain was gone, and the darkness as well. The touch of his loved ones' hands faded away, as did the pain.
He was free.
He wasn't sure when it happened, just that it did. There was a burst of light, and a feeling of utter calmness, and then a moment of understanding.
He looked back only once, but already, what had been was fading away. A part of him longed to return, but a voice whispered to him that his time there was over. Something new lay ahead.
But first, there was something he wanted to do.
They were already waiting for him, smiling, just like he remembered. Sheets of paper with arcane symbols and numbers lay in front of them next to glasses of drink and small, polyhedral shapes that glowed in brilliant colors that no human eye could have seen. Faces long since missed. Friends and loved ones that he'd wished he could have seen one more time, and now he could.
There was one empty seat waiting for him at the head of the table.
He took his seat and cleared his throat. Reaching out a hand, he adjusted the shimmering cardboard screen and glanced over his notes.
"All right, guys. Roll for initiative," he said.
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posted by Bushido Hacks 3/04/2008 09:22:00 PM
