Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator Gary Gygax Dies At 69

AP ^ | 3/4/08

[L,TOWM]

few revenges are sweater than not tipping the moving guy because you remember what an a$$hole he was 20 years ago.

LOL -- Tagline material, man.

[DungeonMaster]

You are right, there is not an 18 sided die.

[MeanWestTexan]

Zork it is.

[L,TOWM]

But there are 3d6 — I remember rolling up my characters — it was a fine day when I got a 18 strength dwarf warrior.

Of course the dipstick got an 6 intelligence and got toasted by picking the wrong thing to eat in the forest on the way to the castle...

[pogo101]

The moment will last 3d6 +1 seconds.

[BJClinton]

Oooh, yes.

It was a text game, could be two player. Trying to think of the name...

[BJClinton]

I suspect God's rolling up a character right now...

Nah, God is a leet player in the old MMORPG called "IRL". He seriously pwns.

[BJClinton]

Bah, someone beat me.

[NathanR]

Sorry I remember playing Zork on a Dec 20 over 25 years ago. I liked is so much I bought the game for my Osborne.

[dmz]

Proud to say I never knew anyone who played that.
____________

Too busy playing Risk, eh?

[BJClinton]

Available online for free! Now I’m not going to get anything done today...

http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.phpz?cat=&game=3&mode=html

[BJClinton]

Proud to say I never knew anyone who played that.

I bet you called tech support because the coffee holder on your computer broke, right? ;-)

[Lazamataz]

Saddest.

Day.

Ever.

[Lazamataz]

Proud to say I never knew anyone who played that.

Your record has been destroyed.

Pleased to meet you.

[MeanWestTexan]

Apple II+ myself

No lowercase; had the thing so overclocked, I kept the top popped off. Big advance from 48 to 64K.

Then I got an AppleCat Modem and would hack phone trunk lines and prank call Japan.

Wardialer to pick up modems.

Ah, the days.

[BRL]

Gygax' wife says he always enjoyed hearing from the game's devoted fans about how the game influenced their lives

Gary must have been a sadist of sorts. My observation in college was that its influence was mostly giving its players a straight F report card and dismisal slips.

[mountainbunny]

Attack the darkness, Gary!

Really sad. We have a copy of the original game around here somewhere.

[Interesting Times]

NOW THE REAL QUESTION is:

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS:

“You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.”

Yes.

I also have the original Fortran source code sitting on a mainframe tape reel...

[steve-b]

"You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door."

"You are in an elliptical field south of a big white house. Suddenly, you make a spot check and find a raging Hildebeest approaching you. What do you do?"

[Braak]

"You are in an elliptical field south of a big white house. Suddenly, you make a spot check and find a raging Hildebeest approaching you. What do you do?"

"Reach for my +5 sword of Zot?"