Wednesday, March 05, 2008

A fond "Farewell" to the King of the Geeks

Gary Gygax has died. A sad day for us who became true geeks playing his game. I was there near the beginning, when "elf" was a player class and the only alignments were good, evil, and neutral. Monty Haul, White Plume Mountain, Tensor, "throw the thief in," all rangers wore green cloaks. What kind of monster is that on the cover of 1st edition Monster Manual? "You know, Lake Geneva is only 3 hours away!" Greyhawk, my kind of town.

Thanks, Gary. It was fun.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can be an elf any more?

The guy who wears Chuck Taylors with a suit. said...

Yeah! At first, "elf" was a race AND a character class, like Fighter or theif. Now elf is a race that can be one of a number of character classes.

Not that I care. I've never played anything but a human.