Comments on: Co-creator of D&D, Gary Gygax, dies at 69 years http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years Technology, computer games, MMOGs, science...and other nerdy stuff Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:04:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Oblivions http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17231 Oblivions Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:09:25 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17231 I am currently in a game, out of desperation, which seems to be nothing BUT rules. It's driving me nuts. You guys showed me the role playing aspect over the rules so that it's now utterly engrained. I can barely role a character muchless quote you the rules and feats and gods know how many other tids bits... i just like to play. Unfortunately it makes me utterly dependant on the DM to know what the hell is going on, but in the end that doesn't matter so much either. Wing it, I wouldn't know or quite frankly care. Miss you guys to play with... we're starting a new proper group tonight, so perhaps I can catch the feeling again... I am currently in a game, out of desperation, which seems to be nothing BUT rules. It’s driving me nuts. You guys showed me the role playing aspect over the rules so that it’s now utterly engrained. I can barely role a character muchless quote you the rules and feats and gods know how many other tids bits… i just like to play.
Unfortunately it makes me utterly dependant on the DM to know what the hell is going on, but in the end that doesn’t matter so much either. Wing it, I wouldn’t know or quite frankly care.

Miss you guys to play with… we’re starting a new proper group tonight, so perhaps I can catch the feeling again…

]]> By: Chris http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17218 Chris Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:57:28 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17218 I still have all the D&D stuff in the cabinet of wonders and I will probably keep them all too. The Dragon magazines, sad to say will have to go, but all the books, the dice, the figures, the maps, the few modules, and even I think my Basic D&D Beginners book are still in there. I look at amusement at new rule additions now... Even before you joined us Oblivions I'd come to the conclusion that the rules weren't that important. They were just a framework to hang everything else on. And you can use as little as you like and bend the what you do use to shape so it all looks best. I find the reason I don't feel like playing much, ( though the occasional twinge is still there ;) ) is not about rules ... I could butcher any rule system and make it work ... it not lack of time, though it is lacking. It is because I want to play with friends. It has become such a part of my past and of who and what I am that it's pretty hard to put it all aside and start from scratch with new people that don't share the same memories, the same past, the same in jokes. Aww crap. I really AM old. I still have all the D&D stuff in the cabinet of wonders and I will probably keep them all too. The Dragon magazines, sad to say will have to go, but all the books, the dice, the figures, the maps, the few modules, and even I think my Basic D&D Beginners book are still in there.

I look at amusement at new rule additions now…

Even before you joined us Oblivions I’d come to the conclusion that the rules weren’t that important. They were just a framework to hang everything else on. And you can use as little as you like and bend the what you do use to shape so it all looks best.

I find the reason I don’t feel like playing much, ( though the occasional twinge is still there ;) ) is not about rules … I could butcher any rule system and make it work … it not lack of time, though it is lacking. It is because I want to play with friends. It has become such a part of my past and of who and what I am that it’s pretty hard to put it all aside and start from scratch with new people that don’t share the same memories, the same past, the same in jokes.

Aww crap.

I really AM old.

]]> By: Kelly Adams http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17215 Kelly Adams Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:39:15 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17215 P.S.: I still have that decrepit Players Handbook around here. And Chris has my DM's Guide, I believe still held together with duct tape ;) P.S.: I still have that decrepit Players Handbook around here. And Chris has my DM’s Guide, I believe still held together with duct tape ;)

]]> By: Kelly Adams http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17214 Kelly Adams Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:38:28 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17214 To Hit Armour Class Zero (THAC0) was actually a great innovation in it's day, which was (I'm embarrassed to admit) towards the end of my gaming career, when I already had ten or fifteen years of playing D&D behind me. I remember the heated discussions we used to have about other innovations like "roll 4d6 take best 3" or "re-order your stats as you see fit" for rolling up characters. Ah, those were the days... A measure of my age is that that "new fangled THAC0 thing" is now older than dirt and largely forgotten by most gamers. One way for me to judge the antiquity of a D&D gamer: remember the Chainmail rules (and I don't mean read about them on Wikipedia- I mean held them in your hands)? Wormy or Phil and Dixie? How about the Flumph? No? Ah, youth... Strangely, none of that stuff I mentioned above seems like it was very long ago. The thing with being {sigh} old is that I don't think the possessor of said title ever really feels like *they* are the old ones. That beer bellied thing in the mirror? That's someone else. And later... the zimmer frame? That is just a temporary thing. High school was just the other day, and retirement is decades and decades away... To Hit Armour Class Zero (THAC0) was actually a great innovation in it’s day, which was (I’m embarrassed to admit) towards the end of my gaming career, when I already had ten or fifteen years of playing D&D behind me. I remember the heated discussions we used to have about other innovations like “roll 4d6 take best 3″ or “re-order your stats as you see fit” for rolling up characters. Ah, those were the days…

A measure of my age is that that “new fangled THAC0 thing” is now older than dirt and largely forgotten by most gamers. One way for me to judge the antiquity of a D&D gamer: remember the Chainmail rules (and I don’t mean read about them on Wikipedia- I mean held them in your hands)? Wormy or Phil and Dixie? How about the Flumph? No? Ah, youth…

Strangely, none of that stuff I mentioned above seems like it was very long ago. The thing with being {sigh} old is that I don’t think the possessor of said title ever really feels like *they* are the old ones. That beer bellied thing in the mirror? That’s someone else. And later… the zimmer frame? That is just a temporary thing. High school was just the other day, and retirement is decades and decades away…

]]> By: Obliviions http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17213 Obliviions Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:27:17 +0000 http://www.kgadams.net/2008/03/04/co-creator-of-dd-gary-gygax-dies-at-69-years#comment-17213 I remember that comment about your 1st book being older than some players in the group. *smirk* 'tis true and now the next generation takes it a runs! Screw THAC0! d20, man! The power of adding rocks! I remember that comment about your 1st book being older than some players in the group. *smirk*

’tis true and now the next generation takes it a runs!

Screw THAC0! d20, man! The power of adding rocks!

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