D&D Co-Creator Gygax reaches -10 HP =(
Arguably the father (along with Dave Arneson, so I guess RPGs had two daddies?) of tabletop role-playing games, Gary Gygax, co-inventor of Chainmail and the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game that virtually spawned every fantasy related game afterword, accumulated enough Experience Points to gain the level of Celestial Dungeon Master and has left the Prime Material Plane for the great GM Screen in the Sky to play at Diety Level.
I emailed Mr. Gygax once about a decade ago, because a friend and I had seen different spellings of his name, and couldn’t figure out who was right. I was surprised to actually get an e-mail back from him (along with a blurb for whatever convention he was going to be at next, naturally), explained (and I’m paraphrasing here):
“Gygax is pronounced with a hard g, a soft middle g and a soft ending o, “gi-gawhh”
Game On Awesomely, good knight.
I read it here first: Lesbian Geek.
Note: I changed the name of my title about Mr. E-G-G’s passing to -10 HP as everyone had done the failed saving throw/vs. death thing.
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