re: #95 Targetpractice

This XKCD cartoon after the announcement of Gary Gygax’s passing will never not be funny:

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I swear I met Gary out in LA sometime when I was at Caltech, likely at a Con of some sort. But I can’t find any evidence he was ever out there in the 1974-1978 time period I was. And I only played D&D intermittently since. But he had a huge impact on me because of the open nature of the game.

We had played a lot of war games based on specific WW2 battles. Or Gettysburg. Not too open-ended. But D&D became our own world.

My mid 20s son plays 2 different games a week with different friends. As does his wife. And I think it has had a huge impact on how those Millennials view the world.