{"id":964,"date":"2008-03-05T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-03-05T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:35:24","slug":"dd-drawings-gary-gygax-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"D&D Drawings – Gary Gygax R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> died today<\/a>. I should be (but refuse to be) ashamed of the amount of time I spent as a youngster playing Dungeons & Dragons<\/em>. Like a lot of folks my age, I became interested in the game well before I was old enough to really play it. Fortunately, by the time I was in junior high school, my friend Karl’s dad–a longtime D&D player–had taken us young folk under his wing and, playing dungeon master himself, taught us how to play the game properly. Probably (also like a lot of other folks as well) I stopped playing D&D in the 80s when it became a pop culture phenomenon, cartoon series included. Since then, though, I’ve often reminisced about the great times I had years ago, and contemplated starting playing again but never really got around to it.<\/p>\n

The last time a remember playing D&D as an adult was when hurricane Hugo swept though North Carolina while I was attending Davidson College. While we were trapped in our dorms without power, a few friends–including the woman who would later become my wife–and I struck up a game, remembering as best we could how to play with what little reference we had at hand.<\/p>\n

So, enough reminiscing… Now I gotta (as they say) pour out a little liquor for my homey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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(By the way, if you recognize this dragon, you’re as big a goon as I am.)<\/p>\n

To take things back a few years, here’s a drawing of a D&D lizard man (Armor class 5, Hit dice: 2 + 1 hit point!) I did as a child. Like a lot of folks, I sort of worked my way back to Frazetta from those little illustrations in D&D books. I may not be drawing sword and sorcery stuff these days, but there’ s no mistaking the influence the D&D artwork had on me as a young man:<\/p>\n

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Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons died today. I should be (but refuse to be) ashamed of the amount of time I spent as a youngster playing Dungeons & Dragons. Like a lot of folks my age, I became interested in the game well before I was old enough to really play it. Fortunately, … <\/p>\n

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