Wednesday, March 04, 2009

one year later, a re-post

don't mourn the death, celebrate the life:
Things You Can Do To Keep Gygax's Memory Alive

  • Play some OD&D or 1st edition AD&D, or one of the other games Gary created.
  • Adapt one of his modules to whatever fantasy system you are using nowadays. B2 The Keep on the Borderlands is a particularly good choice for "serious" role-players, if you focus on all the intrigues surrounding the various factions of humanoids in the Caves of Chaos.
  • Name your next pet Gary, Gygax, or Mordenkainen. (I am not taking any responsibilty if you name your next kid Gygax or Mordenkainen. You're on your own on that one.)
  • Build that Dragonchess set you've been meaning to construct ever since you read about it in issue #100 of Dragon.
  • Players: Specialize in an oddball polearm, swear "by Gygax's beard", play a cleric of Zagig.
  • DMs: drop the Ring of Gaxx into your setting, sprinkle some scrolls of Mordenkainen-brand spells about your dungeon, use a rust monster or a bulette.
  • Write that module or game or whatever that you've been meaning to get around to. Submit it for publication or publish it yourself.
  • Keep a sharp eye out for the next weird little game that might become a breakout hit, spawning cartoons, films, comic books, novels and countless imitators.
  • Tell the hobgoblins "It's okay, Gary sent us!"
  • Crack open your 1st edition DMG and just luxuriate in the unmistakeable Gygax prose.
  • Send a letter or e-mail to another game designer thanking them before it's too late.
  • Introduce someone else to the fun that is this crazy little hobby.
  • Game like there's no tomorrow.

7 comments:

  1. Cool ideas to honor the memory of someone who created something we all love so much.

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  2. I couldn't have said it better, man!

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  3. Anonymous2:21 PM

    has been been a year already?liti

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  4. Just last week I created a gnoll character who specialises in the glaive-guisarme.

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  5. Ideally, you would decide the manner in which you honour the momery of EGG by random die roll ('tis the Gygaxo-Rientsian Way). ;-)

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  6. Ideally, you would decide the manner in which you honour the momery of EGG by random die roll ('tis the Gygaxo-Rientsian Way).

    "Hi, I'm Gary Gygax. It's ::rolls dice:: nice to meet you!"

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  7. We're playing Classic D&D on Saturday night! First time in a while for me. First time *ever* for some people in the group. I planned the event to be as close to this date as I could get it.

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