End of an era.
Mar. 4th, 2008 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Gary Gygax is dead.
No matter how you may have felt about how things developed, the fact remains that for most of us of a certain age, D&D *was* gaming. The hours we spent around the table with graph paper and dice, learning that D4s hide in the rug and are pointy...Ah good times. I remember when D&D came in a BOX!
And indirectly, D&D was responsible for my chosen career/passion. My D&D group decided that it would be a lot of fun to go to this Renaisance Faire thingie....

No matter how you may have felt about how things developed, the fact remains that for most of us of a certain age, D&D *was* gaming. The hours we spent around the table with graph paper and dice, learning that D4s hide in the rug and are pointy...Ah good times. I remember when D&D came in a BOX!
And indirectly, D&D was responsible for my chosen career/passion. My D&D group decided that it would be a lot of fun to go to this Renaisance Faire thingie....

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Date: 2008-03-05 12:29 am (UTC)But you're right; gaming meant DnD to a lot of us. Still does, really.... A lot of nostalgia in these thoughts.