General Discussion

So many people out there do not know if it wasn't for GG and D&D the gaming world of RPG and the gaming world in general would not be the world it is today.

GG will truely be missed!!!!!

No matter how old I get, I will always want to play DnD. The best part is having DnD (Dunkin' Dounuts) while playing DnD.

The funniest drawing I saw about DnD is servel dragons sitting around a table playing HnH (Houses and Humans).

I was a small withdrawn kid, when I was first introduced to a game that came in a box. My older brother said we're going to play this or I'll tie you up and make you play. It looked interesting anyways so I said i would. it was interesting to see one could be a different race in a game. As I was an Aboriginal kid being raised by Scottish/Italian people, I knew i was different and didn't really understand why. So as I learned the rules of the game and how one......role plays. Life in general made a little more sense. Questioning the rules and stuff made my characters better to understand and play, as well as IRL made my life more comprehensable. The years past, in game and as breaks our crowd of summer friends and family would take breaks from the game running around the woods around our cabins..pretending to be this hero or that race, battling the odds against anouther. Sometimes we would re-inact our scenarios. As the Game progressed so did we in our interest in all that came out for it. Throught highschool acting came easy for me, although i had short term memory problems but found a home in theatre for awhile. as i learned more about theatre, public speaking also became a talent of mine. Still is to this day, in game I used it to raise rebelions.....to persaude crowds of people to act whatever way we would like. mostly distractions for get aways though lol. I started to learn more about peoples way of thinking and the differences as well, which helps me in my carreer as well. I was so interested in this I started to get the idea from watching World of Greyhawk, Forgotten realms, Dragon Lance, Raven Loft. I started creating my own world, at first it was just me then later had multiple friends add peices to it. It started just as a town as I embarked on my Dm escapades. Later it became an area.....then a land mass.....then one continent in a world. All along the way I created races..thier history...land history..personalities...hero's anti-hero's...infamous people...a colourful detailed history going back thousands of years. and of course the maps that went along with all this. IRL I was studying peoples history and see'ing how that could create part of my empires in the world.

In shortening this tale.......D&D inspired me to academic hieghts I would never have gone on my own, and helped my see there was more to the world than my own little hood...which found me see'ing different sides of people the nice and the not so nice (being litteraly stoned by a group of neiborhood kids) but taking that and learning that to be strong for the people it takes experiences of all kinds to become a leader/role model. Thanks Gary......

First time I met RPG was in 1986, when I saw a guy with some AD&D 1st ed rulebooks and got curious. After looking some pages I got hooked and since then I played not only it but several other RPG games. I was already playing some computer RPGs and did not have the idea where I was getting to

My English wasn´t that good but reading the books helped me a lot. I even appeared in a well-known newspaper because many youngies were doing English classes just to play RPGs and I used to hang around the only bookseller (17 years ago) where you could buy the books.

Today I dont go much to the booksellers, but still have some connection to computer games (as I still play then) and still play pen-and-paper RPGs on weekends.

Never had the opportunity to met Gary Gygax, afaik he never came to Brazil, but Dave Arneson came here (he signed one of my DA series modules). Getting the sad news about his passing was a sad thing, because RPG helped me in many things, including making many friends and some of these friendships are more than 15 years old.

I prefer not say he´s dead.. whenever there´s a pen-and-paper group, he´ll be there in spirit. His heart will beat whenever a die rolls.

Like so many players my first impressions of RPG came with ADD and actually my first character was named "Gröm" a good fellow but "dumb-to-death" Chaotic Good Barbarian. So I felt it would be only natural to have the name "Gröm" not only here at MMORPG.com but also in the first MMO I've played.
In the end this is all due to one man, Mr Gary Gygax and this is my small story and contribution to a great visionaire, to a great man.
Thank you GG...

Me too!  The avatar I always use for any game is this one (Arclan).  It was the name of my first D&D character; it was probably the first "original" thing I had come up with in my short time on earth.

"Here's to Gary Gygax, the man who created the medium by which we all come

together. You were to gaming what Michelangelo was to painting, what

Donatello was to sculpture. You didn't invent gaming, you simply

perfected the platform and launched it into greatness. "

The poster who said the previous statement is pure genius; I couldn't agree more.

(( Though I don't play MMORPGs anymore, this man's creation accounts for a lot of who I am today.  Though I did not know anything about him 'til today, his work is appreciated.

Whether people realize it or not, if they've ever played an mmo (or rpg), Gary Gygax has touched their lives. Being a father of the RPG not only laid the foundation of future games, but more importantly, demonstrated how to create a vehicle for people to engage and enjoy their imaginations with. Everyone likes to take a little break from reality. Mr. Gygax gave the greatest gift of all in the form of hapiness and a way to escape whatever reality someone wanted a break from.

On his wikipedia page, he was quoted as saying it made him happy that people enjoyed playing his games and that he wanted to share the joy he had found with them. There are many famous people throughout history, but arguably, the most important are those that touched millions of others' lives, and made them just a little bit better. By that standard, Mr. Gygax is one of the most important and a hero to millions.

Where ever he is, I hope he realizes what a major postive effect he's had on the world, and history itself.

In  a way, Gary gave the world +5 happiness.

the name that i use here and in many other mmorpgs is also the name of the first char i made in DnD not only that but the many years ive spent playing DnD as well as mmorpgs has lead me to pursue a career in video game development im currently in college studying it and i owe it all it Mr. Gygax  it was the game he helped create that helped me grow up not only as a child but also as an adult and that game helped to inspire me to do things i didnt think i was capable of.  Thank You Mr. Gygax you will always live on in our hearts and memories!