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froglegg
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 00:19:46
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If you are very quiet and you can keep very still you can just make out the sound of dice rolling coming from above.
Happy Birthday to the Original Dungeon Master. Your game lives on!
John
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3256 Posts |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4273 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 05:04:00
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The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 08:30:30
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And still missed.
A good time to spend a couple of hours reading a few old Dragon articles and the 1st ed. Dungeon Masters Guide. |
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Icelander
Master of Realmslore
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Ateth Istarlin
Seeker
United Kingdom
80 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 12:42:50
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Happy Birthday Gary!
& Thanks again for all the good times (both previous & future) |
The more I read about 4FR, the more depressed I am.
Politician - An elected official who tries to be all things to all people, while always looking out for his/her own interests first. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 17:52:54
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| It's odd to miss someone that I never met. |
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Dreyrugrulfr
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 21:25:01
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| Agreed, and as a relative new-comer to D&D (since 2004) it feels especially strange. I can only imagine how hard it was for people who've been playing since the beginning to hear the news. |
No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing. |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jul 2010 : 21:58:25
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I hope you roll a lot of natural 20s.
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bladeinAmn
Learned Scribe
199 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jul 2010 : 06:10:10
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Now this is juss awsome.
I didn't even know that 2 days ago 7/27/2010, was Gary Gygax's birthday. Yet what I did that day was decide to randomly roll some dice for to create 6 2nd edition ability scores for a character.
The result? 17, 17, 16, 18, 9, and 18! 
And let's remember, if you roll and get a 14-15 score in juss 3 catagories, you're considered in the top 10% of any given population! And according to Baldur's Gate rules, I can take away from some of the other scores and put it w/the 9, and thus have all ability scores of at least 14!
So I honoured a great man's bday without even knowing it until now, and undoubtedly had some angel-type spirit touch upon my dice rolls!
Edit: And what a way to celebrate my 100th post on CK, here on a thread about Gary! |
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Joran Nobleheart
Senior Scribe
USA
495 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jul 2010 : 06:49:11
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Happy Birthday indeed! We'll always miss you Mr. Gygax, and many of us never had the chance to say how greatly your game affected our lives. I wish I could have told you in person, and could have thanked you for all the wonderful friends it's brought into my life.  |
Paladinic Ethos
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jul 2010 : 04:40:27
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| Happy 1st Posthumous Birthday, Gary. We miss ya. |
I'm on a permanent vacation to the soul. -Tash Sultana |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3256 Posts |
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jul 2010 : 05:06:24
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| Has it been so long? *sigh* 2nd Posthumous Birthday. Sorry. Time goes by far too fast. |
I'm on a permanent vacation to the soul. -Tash Sultana |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2010 : 15:40:01
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| I will roll till I get a nat 20 in your honor Gary! |
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Elfinblade
Senior Scribe
Norway
377 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2010 : 17:49:26
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| 20 to you Gary. |
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Saxmilian
Learned Scribe
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2010 : 00:19:46
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| The man must have worn a Hat of Wisdom a Perhipat of Creation and a Cloak of Awesomness. In addition to his honor i'd throw out a nod and raised mug of fresh, cold ale to all of those (us all included) that have taken the man's ideas, made them our own and given even more back from the simplest of home-spun spells and weapons to house rules that our players love. Keep on creating! |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2010 : 21:42:47
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Originally posted by Saxmilian
The man must have worn a Hat of Wisdom a Perhipat of Creation and a Cloak of Awesomness. In addition to his honor i'd throw out a nod and raised mug of fresh, cold ale to all of those (us all included) that have taken the man's ideas, made them our own and given even more back from the simplest of home-spun spells and weapons to house rules that our players love. Keep on creating!
+1 
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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coach
Senior Scribe
USA
479 Posts |
Posted - 04 Sep 2010 : 19:25:53
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remember a quote (sorry can't remember who to attribute it to) about Gygax' Obituary stating he was survived by six children...
"Six? I thought he had millions?" |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 05 Sep 2010 : 02:38:45
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Originally posted by coach
remember a quote (sorry can't remember who to attribute it to) about Gygax' Obituary stating he was survived by six children...
"Six? I thought he had millions?"
LOL! Millions is correct!
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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