Gary Gygax passes away

RIP to one of the Elder Epic Geeks.

after reading the obit, i spent the better part of monday reading about D&D. i have never played any RPG but i've had friends who were way way into it. i remember in the 80s there was a 'satanic panic' regarding D&D which instantly made it cool, well...cool to me anyways. i'm sure it made life hell for kids who were into it. ah, to be young and socially misunderstood!

my reading lead me to the "steam tunnel" myths and the story behind "mazes and monsters". i was of age when the D&D cartoon was on CBS and i remember being somewhat disturbed by it. i read on wikipedia that at the time it was considered the most violent show on television (!!!!)

I remember the "D&D" animated series! I don't remember it being very violent though - it was one of the better Saturday morning cartoons.

Jessica

I played D&D and Vampire. We played so much that we called each other by our character names, rather than our real ones. Silly, eh? Hahaha! We sent each other hand written invites and came in costume... I drew my characters and a few others for the rest of the folks. It was really fun...I miss playing those games. When you get a good dungeon master, the game rocks that much more.

By the way, I have probably seen this cartoon that you speak of, but then again, I was probably holed up in the kitchen or the basement of my friends' house playing D&D-- to bother watching it. I wasn't ever really too much of a tv watcher. Commercials and cartoons however...different story. But like I said, too busy! Hah!

Wow, ramble much?

I played VAMPIRE when was a teenager. I loved it. 69 is so young for people to die now. Or maybe I'm just getting old and I think it's too young.