I'm going to put this out first and foremost: I'm not a D&D player. I've played it in the past, but Dungeons and Dragons is not where my tabletop spirit lies.
Despite that, I still think Gary Gygax was a very important figure in the gaming world. He is, essentially, the father of tabletop RPGs, which are the root of half the games in existence today. There are some things Gygax believed that I disagree with ("Role-playing isn't storytelling, If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game." - storytelling, at its roots, was something interactive, exactly what the tabletop games should be. This is probably part of the reason I enjoy White Wolf's Storytelling system so much), but one thing is clear: Gygax designed a game that, while it didn't necessarily make RPGs mainstream, made them acceptable, and popular to a certain type of person. D&D laid the groundwork for many games to come, both those which utilize the same d20 system and those which use new systems such as the Storytelling system used by the White Wolf games and the Lucid system used by The Dreaming and Legacy Crossing.
So here's to the memory of the man that started it all - or at least most of it - without whom many of our lives would have been vastly different than it is now. You say you found God; now you can be with Him. Rest In Peace, Gary.
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