{"id":771,"date":"2008-03-04T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/03\/04\/rip-gary-gygax\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:11:00","slug":"rip-gary-gygax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/03\/04\/rip-gary-gygax\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gary Gygax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going around the Internet that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Gygax\">E. Gary Gygax<\/a>, co-creator of the <i>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/i> role-playing game, has passed away at age 69.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s work certainly made a major impact in my life. I spent hours of my early teenaged years rolling odd dice at the kitchen table with my friends, and designing ridiculously labyrinthine dungeons for our overpowered characters to run through. I moved on in the 90s to more story-based RPG systems, but my First Edition Advanced D&#038;D books remain on my game shelves, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the World of Warcraft owes a great deal to the man, as does the <i>Munchkin<\/i> card game. Because of his work, many game stores have seen a fine profit from me over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I think I should dig out an old module or two of his, and see about hosting a run in memoriam. I&#8217;ve always wanted to try &#8220;Expedition to the Barrier Peaks&#8221; again in a setting such as <i>Earthdawn<\/i>, <i>Hercules &#038; Xena<\/i>, or perhaps even <i>Deadlands<\/i> (where it would fit awfully nicely, with certain tweaks. Hmm&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for many lovely evenings, Mr. Gygax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going around the Internet that E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of the Dungeons &#038; Dragons role-playing game, has passed away at age 69. The man&#8217;s work certainly made a major impact in my life. I spent hours of my early teenaged years rolling odd dice at the kitchen table with my friends, and designing ridiculously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,49,82],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fandom","tag-gaming","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}