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09 March 2008

Pigeontrack: Roll on, Gary Gygax!

GarygygaxI was in sixth grade. A dragon roared on the cover of a book, so I asked my mom to buy it for me. Inside I found columns of statistics and obscure notations. When I figured it all out and got some friends together, the magic happened.

The book was Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), created by Gary Gygax. He wrote the first rulebooks for the game as a college student, with a college-aged audience in mind. Like so many others, he felt moved by the world of fantasy.  CONTINUED

Posted by The Mad Pigeon at 13:45 in Constitutional Rights, Patriotic Chest Thumping, Politics, Religion, Technology & PC Gaming, The Roosting Arts |

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