(TFT) Dungeons and Dragons creator dies

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Sad Day:

Dungeons and Dragons creator dies
Gaming legend Gary Gygax dies at 69
Written by Iain Thomson
<http://www.vnunet.com/>vnunet.com, 05 Mar 2008
The co-creator of 
<http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome>Dungeons and 
Dragons, the world's most popular role-playing game, has died at his 
home in Wisconsin.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax>Gary Gygax was legendary 
among the gaming community for his invention, and its more popular 
successor Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

The two games are still the most popular role-playing games and are a 
multi-billion dollar industry.
Games in which participants create characters from magical or 
mythical scenarios have been around for decades.
But Gygax and his friend Don Kaye began publishing scenarios in 1974 
for others to play, and codified a set of rules so that players could 
write their own games.

"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, 
cooperative experience," Gygax said in an interview with 
<http://www.nytimes.com/>The New York Times in 2006.

"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the 
experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre 
you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, 
secret agents or whatever else."

Most role-playing games are now played entirely on computer, of which 
Gygax largely disapproved.
He felt that computer graphics replaces one of the most important 
facets of the game, i.e. imagination.
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