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Mar. 5th, 2008
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One point though, pen-and-paper role-playing games had not been largely supplanted by online computer games. The traditional pen-and-paper has had tools developed to help them keep track of their games, campaign, characters and future developments. Online games had not replaced anything, it merely added to the experience and gave us more options and more people who know that messing with dragons is done at their own perils. Still, imagination is so much better then anything.
Gary Gygax, a pioneer of the imagination who transported a fantasy realm of wizards, goblins and elves onto millions of kitchen tables around the world through the game he helped create, Dungeons & Dragons, died Tuesday at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis. He was 69.
His death was confirmed by his wife, Gail Gygax, who said he had been ailing and had recently suffered an abdominal aneurysm, The Associated Press reported.
As co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, the seminal role-playing game introduced in 1974, Mr. Gygax wielded a cultural influence far broader than his relatively narrow fame among hard-core game enthusiasts.
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One point though, pen-and-paper role-playing games had not been largely supplanted by online computer games. The traditional pen-and-paper has had tools developed to help them keep track of their games, campaign, characters and future developments. Online games had not replaced anything, it merely added to the experience and gave us more options and more people who know that messing with dragons is done at their own perils. Still, imagination is so much better then anything.
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