Requiem To First Quest
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 
Sorry for not posting in a long time, have been wanting to post but somehow time escapes me. Anyway, cleared my major assignments on Saturday and Monday respectively, and now I’m left with just the exams this semester. Hopefully I can score high this semester.
Heard about Gary Gygax’s passing on Wednesday. I think its a really tragic loss to the entire roleplaying community worldwide - his game has helped shaped many in their teens to avoid bad influences, and steer them onto the right path throughout their turbulent lives. I was one of them (though I didn’t really have bad influences, unless you consider the computer to be one) - being introduced to First Quest (a Dungeons and Dragons boxed game) when I was a wee boy 10 years of age. From World of Warcraft to Vampire: The Masquerade, and even Knights of the Old Republic, almost every RPG game is based on his innovative conceptualization ofrole-playing, combined with storytelling and tabletop gaming. With the rise of computer/video games, D&D made the leap into the digital age, and as well as connecting with a new generation of gamers who have never played D&D in pen & paper form before, simplifying certain aspects of the game so that the learning curve for newcomers is eased. The dice used in the games - classic Platonic solids - considered bread & butter of RPG players, and interesting objects to be shown around in class for math lessons by school teachers. Keep on rolling, Gary, and thanks for the world you gave us.
