Gary Gygax dies

**Steam** · 6th March 2008, 05:31

I am sure my dungeon master had us fight a monster called a Gygax.

Before I left Wellington we'd play every second weekend in Johnsonville, four of us, while the girlfriends did something the hell else. They watched a DVD upstairs or got drunk or something while we looted the abandoned elvish tower.

I moved to Dunedin and the role-playing nerds spotted me within days by my Star Trek RPG t-shirt. "Come play!" they enthused!
No, said I, I will have no time for study.

The Gygax is dead, long live the Gygax!

Remember some of these books?

**Mikkel** · 6th March 2008, 07:26

Originally Posted by Jim2

Amazingly yes. Very good at breaking down doors. With his head. Alas, he was slain by a Catoblepas. Out the back of a pub.

My characters usually died from rather mundane things - not when fighting the dragon or the lich...

I love how they handled falling damage... According to the rules a lvl 15 character would have no trouble surviving a 60' drop

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

Those crappy unarmed wrestling tables, iron rations? What be they? Everyone needs rope and a 10' pole, iron spikes and a mallet!

Nothing better than to buy a 15' pole and a rope at 150% the normal length - and not telling the DM until his clever traps have been sprung.

And for carrying your stuff around - nothing better than a portable hole

Originally Posted by Steam

Remember some of these books?

Sure do, grew up with the 2nd Ed. AD&D Player's Handbook!

Was wondering if you guys are reading The Order of the Stick. If not - I'm sure you'll enjoy it

**Steam** · 6th March 2008, 08:21

Originally Posted by Mikkel

And for carrying your stuff around - nothing better than a portable hole

I had a Pocket Of Infinite Depth, in which I must have carried tons around in.
But then the DM thought that was cheating a bit, so he said if I put things in it they'd keep falling to the bottom - and there was NO bottom, because it had infinite depth, see?
So whenever I wanted something I had to tip the pocket upside down and the items would fall back to the mouth of the pocket, then rummage around for a whole turn to find it.
In the end it was impractical, although I experimented with keeping it upside down at all times to keep things from falling away to infinity.

The DM was much happier about the Bag of Astounding Capacity I replaced it with. I couldn't carry much around in it, but it was enough to take all my treasure home.

**Hitcher** · 6th March 2008, 08:29

One feels like getting liquored one evening and, with an entourage of the like-minded, dusting off a D&D box and seeing what happens next. For old-times' sake.

**Mikkel** · 6th March 2008, 09:19

Originally Posted by Steam

I had a Pocket Of Infinite Depth, in which I must have carried tons around in.
But then the DM thought that was cheating a bit, so he said if I put things in it they'd keep falling to the bottom - and there was NO bottom, because it had infinite depth, see?
So whenever I wanted something I had to tip the pocket upside down and the items would fall back to the mouth of the pocket, then rummage around for a whole turn to find it.
In the end it was impractical, although I experimented with keeping it upside down at all times to keep things from falling away to infinity.

The DM was much happier about the Bag of Astounding Capacity I replaced it with. I couldn't carry much around in it, but it was enough to take all my treasure home.

Well, it ought to have taken as long time for the stuff to come to the opening as it had been in the bag... Could be used for a CLEVER plan!

Anyway, if you just used it store treasure surely one turn wouldn't be too impractical.

Originally Posted by Hitcher

One feels like getting liquored one evening and, with an entourage of the like-minded, dusting off a D&D box and seeing what happens next. For old-times' sake.

Fuck, I could be keen on that!

**EJK** · 6th March 2008, 10:29

D&D.... I hardly remember that game... lol

**Big Dave** · 6th March 2008, 10:31

Originally Posted by Hitcher

One feels like getting liquored one evening and, with an entourage of the like-minded, dusting off a D&D box and seeing what happens next. For old-times' sake.

The cool people will still laugh at you.

**James Deuce** · 6th March 2008, 10:46

We no longer care.

Most of the cool people who used to torment us and drove us into the science labs and teacher's lounges to play with dice are wondering how we can afford two bikes, a drum kit, a house, the odd overseas trip, while the cool people from back then have two jail terms, and 4 marriages and 38 children between 12 different woment to support.

**Mikkel** · 6th March 2008, 10:55

Originally Posted by Jim2

We no longer care.

You must mean, we've learned to cry on the inside... and for other reasons!

Originally Posted by Jim2

Most of the cool people who used to torment us and drove us into the science labs and teacher's lounges to play with dice are wondering how we can afford two bikes, a drum kit, a house, the odd overseas trip, while the cool people from back then have two jail terms, and 4 marriages and 38 children between 12 different woment to support.

It is a funny old world like that eh? At least the physical evidence suggests that they might have gotten laid more often than us though...

**James Deuce** · 6th March 2008, 10:57

Originally Posted by Mikkel

It is a funny old world like that eh? At least the physical evidence suggests that they might have gotten laid more often than us though...

No, we can spell & use contraception. Thanks largely to Gary's voluminous vocabulary.

**Mikkel** · 6th March 2008, 11:04

Originally Posted by Jim2

No, we can spell & use contraception. Thanks largely to Gary's voluminous vocabulary.

Actually - and don't tell anyone - I learned english from this fella around the age of 11

...incidently that also taught me about condoms.

Not that I was ever at risk - my parents were not afraid to talk to me about those subjects. I fear not everyone was that lucky.

**pzkpfw** · 6th March 2008, 11:18

Geez, I'm in a group right now that still meets once a week to play. (Currently the D20, 3.5. version.)

Tip: "Dungeons and Dragons" in the "hobbies" section of your C.V. can be a good ice breaker.

Motorcycles and D&D (and family and job and ...). They can all go together.

P.S.

"THACO"! Oh you young folk.

"Falling damage". How many articles in Dragon magazine were titled "A better way to calculate falling damage?"!

Cheers,

**Big Dave** · 6th March 2008, 11:27

Originally Posted by Jim2

We no longer care.

Most of the cool people who used to torment us and drove us into the science labs and teacher's lounges to play with dice are wondering how we can afford two bikes, a drum kit, a house, the odd overseas trip, while the cool people from back then have two jail terms, and 4 marriages and 38 children between 12 different woment to support.

Obviously pretenders. True hip lasts a lifetime.