Gary Gygax the creator of Dungeons & Dragons died on March 4th 2008
Posted by razzbuffnik on March 5th, 2008
I was just reading a blog and I saw with sadness that Gary Gygax had died on the 4th of this month. Unlike many people who played Dungeons & Dragons I’m not embarassed to say I used to love playing it back in the early 1980s when I lived in Canada.
Here’s a few pictures of the people I used to play D&D with on the roof of the house we used to share back in 1983.
It was a very boozy and relaxed social time. It was like taking part in a story that wrote itself. Because of the fact that each person who played was an individual, their choices of what to do in the game led the story of what was happening in unpredicatable directions. I’m convinced that whorthwhile fantasy fiction could’ve been written from some of the D&D games that I’ve been involved with.
On a side note this last picture is of my house mate at the time, Neil Cunningham (the guy in the blue cap in the top photo)who was the model for the Power Windows
Neil got the gig because he had a friend who was the photographer’s assistant of the guy who took the photo of Neil on the front and back cover. The photo for the front cover was copied as a painting. If I remember correctly, Neil was flown down to LA for a couple of days and was only paid about $75 for the shoot.