GARY GYGAX
July 27, 1938-March 4, 2008
By Rainn Wilson
''Who is this Gygax of whom you speak, young dwarf?'' These are not my words, but the imagined words of my alter-ego avatar, the half-elf magic user, Quint Fleetshanks (14th level, Chaotic Neutral alignment), as he discusses his legendary über-creator, one Gary Gygax. I spent countless weekends in my early adolescence hunched over basement tables with twenty-sided dice, painted lead figurines, graph paper, Twizzlers and stacks of tomes of the greatest game ever made, DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. America's Dungeonmaster, Mr. Gygax, its co-creator, passed away this year and the world has lost a mighty warrior who fathered millions of other mighty warriors, pimply and pale, who hunched over their basement tables for countless hours feasting on Twizzlers and their imaginations.
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