Metapost: RIP Gary Gygax

March 5, 2008 at 12:04 am | In metapost, webcomics | 3 Comments
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I’ve never been an AD&D gamer, but I read a lot of Dragonlance novels when I was younger, and I sure played a lot of Baldur’s Gate video games.

The webcomics react:

The Order of the Stick sees Gary Gygax wandering the planes of the afterlife.

Penny Arcade does one of the best puns I’ve seen in a while.

EDIT: I’m adding two more. I’m getting some unusual traffic for people searching for Gary Gygax webcomics. I might as well post the rest to cover everything. Credit goes to both the Tad Williams’ Message Board and the SomethingAwful.com forums.

Something Positive portrays a fan’s reaction to Gary’s death.

xkcd sees Gary rolling his dice in the afterlife.

Full Frontal Nerdity sees gamers playing a game in tribute.

GU Comics sees Gary being Dungeon Master from the beyond.

Finally, I break my longstanding war against LOLCats to post this.

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  1. Attention Deficit, and Dragons? I’ve rolled a nine, no a seven, lets use a different die, or play twister.

    Comment by Robot Cartoons — March 5, 2008 #

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  2. Oddly enough, I’ve accidentally read ADD as “Advanced Dungeons, Dragons” myself. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was some sort of disord-… Hey! Is that a bright shiny object?

    Comment by El Santo — March 5, 2008 #

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