Freaks & Geeks and Gygax

For one flickering instant, our culture acknowledged a tiny, but important, social development of the concept of community imagination. That instant is enough for me.

Thanks, Gary.

UPDATE: Will Wheaton puts up a lovely excerpt of his book, Happiest Days of Our Lives, in his eulogy to Gygax.

Gary Gygax Against the Giants

Gary Gygax has taken off on one last Lejendary Adventure.

I have no idea if he made his saving throw, but when asked how he'd like to be remembered, he said, "I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else."

He rolled a natural 20 on that one. A hundred times over.