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Old 03-04-2008, 01:55 PM   #1
Flowers
New Romantic
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Above the Legal Limit
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Gary Gygax to roll new character.

At the age of 69.

If it weren't for him, a lot of us would have known the tender touch of woman earlier and more frequently than we did. But would any of us trade away the great times he gave us for the attention of a pretty girl? Yes. But all we would have then is herpes and memories, whereas now, we all have memories and maybe a t-shirt which we have to explain a lot. Either way, we should thank him for the pizza, and soda, and Dungeons and Dragons, an episode or two of moral panic, a bad Tom Hanks film, the most hilarious of all Chick Tracts (take that, H.P. Lovecraft!), all role-playing games in general from Final Fantasy to Ganguro Girl Delux, late nights rolling treasure tables for an intelligent sword we scammed by abusing a Wish spell, but not the fish. That was somebody else.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I plan to honor his memory the only way I can. By pouring myself some wine in a skull shaped flagon and proceeding to bore the tits off my wife by talking about my character.
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