{"id":5308,"date":"2008-03-10T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2008-03-10T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T00:58:10","slug":"gary-gygax-1938-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/gary-gygax-1938-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Gygax 1938-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those not in the know, he was the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.  A game I never could come to like but I appreciate it&#8217;s geek roots.  <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/393\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">XKCD<\/a> did a special  tribute.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/393\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"garygygax.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/garygygax.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"227\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>Gary Gygax and the Ultimate Game<\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Gygax forged an industry around D&#038;D and made a small fortune in the process. His home-brew publishing company, Tactical Studies Rules, went from a basement enterprise to a thriving corporation with 600 employees in less than a decade. D&#038;D sold millions of copies and has been translated into more than a dozen languages in at least 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/virtualworlds\/news\/2008\/03\/ff_gygax\" class=\"external external_icon\">His creation is the cornerstone of geek culture, but it&#8217;s also had a profound and far-reaching impact on people who have never touched a 20-sided die.<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something extra special is under the cut.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/gary-gygax-1938-2008-co-creator-of-dungeons-dragons\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">laughing squid<\/a> gets the cred for this one)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Wired &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gaming\/virtualworlds\/news\/2008\/03\/ff_gygax\" class=\"external external_icon\">Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BxNhgnlJbzA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BxNhgnlJbzA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BxNhgnlJbzA\" class=\"external external_icon\">you tube<\/a>, for as long as it lasts)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those not in the know, he was the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons. A game I never could come to like but I appreciate it&#8217;s geek roots. XKCD did a special tribute. Gary Gygax and the Ultimate Game Gygax forged an industry around D&#038;D and made a small fortune in the process. His home-brew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-people-who-died"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}