A Moment for Geekiness
Sadly, Gary Gygax passed away today. In my non-birding years, I spent a lot of time sitting in my basement playing Dungeons & Dragons - the great role-playing game that he created. Similar to birding, D&D has a bit of a nerdy reputation. I had a lot of fun playing it back in the day along with games it helped inspire like Magic: The Gathering. I also spent a lot of time painting tiny lead alloy miniatures that will probably give me cancer. In salute to Gary, here's a hilarious clip from the extremely underrated TV series Freaks & Geeks that encompasses D&D pretty well:
For the record, I never dressed up in character except for Halloween one year. I sold off most of my stuff years ago and made a killing on eBay. I still have some lingering miniatures that I couldn't part with though.
6 comments:
I loved GG's Greyhawk books...and I, too, was a D&D geek.
Actually, I would probably play again if I still had my Dungeon Master's Guide and Player's Handbook...
I recently repurchased all the 2nd Edition AD&D manuals (my old ones were adopted and then sold by my little brother). Greyhawk was by far the best realm around.
I vividly remember staying up all night playing a 12 hour marathon campaign and making soda can pyramids on the downstairs table. I even found a couple of my old character drawings:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e364/wolfcrazy_101/delhanha1.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e364/wolfcrazy_101/elias.jpg
Patrick, you do realize what this means if you and Beth ever do stop over for a visit? You better remember to bring your dice!
crap, those links didn't work. Here they are again:
Delhanha
Elias
Corey, I should have known you were a D&D guy.
Paul, I still have them. I even have a handmade chainmail dice bag! I lost my funny 100-sided die somewhere though. Did you ever play Magic too? Nice drawings. I was a big Greyhawk fan and Forgotten Realms too. I never played Dragonlance though.
One of the servers on Dungeons and Dragons on-line held a memorial service last night, images are here:
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=138713
Warning however, this game is highly addictive!
Oh, no, another D&D-er. It's been a long time since I played but I still have all my dice, books, etc. stuffed in the closet. If I had a dime for every doodle of a character I ever drew when I was supposed to be concentrating in class...
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