Father of D & D dies

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:33:18 +0000, Edward Cowling London UK
<edward.RemoveThis@genghis0.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I noticed an interesting obituary in the Economist of all places that
>seemed to get missed by the main stream press, but is significant to all
>RPG gamers.
>
>Gary Gygax the inventor of Dungeons & Dragons dies on the 4th March,
>aged 69.
>
>If you're thinking who ? Well World of Warcraft with it's 10 million
>subscribers would probably never have existed without the very first
>Dungeons & Dragons.
>
>--
>Edward Cowling "Must go - Another Year Another Sheet Change !"
>

Hello, Rip van Winkel, or maybe it's because you live in England. It
was pretty widely reported here in the US and is the subject of
several (now pretty old) threads on this newsgroup.

John Lewis
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Edward Cowling London UK <edward DeleteThis @genghis0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I noticed an interesting obituary in the Economist of all places that
> seemed to get missed by the main stream press, but is significant to all
> RPG gamers.
>
> Gary Gygax the inventor of Dungeons & Dragons dies on the 4th March,
> aged 69.

Check this newsgroup (and about half of the rest of usenet) as well as
quite a large part of the Web and even some of the mainstream press for
discussions, tributes and obituaries concerning Gary Gygax's death.


mcv.
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