Death before dishonor, but only if the cleric can raise dead
Gary Gygax died yesterday.
You know, it's not D&D itself that I can't imagine in my life, but when I tried to think what my life would be like now without the friends that I made through D&D groups -- all the way back to 1990 or so -- that's when my head explodes.
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mithramuse, who came up to Akabane yesterday to hang out while he's on a business trip to Japan... I met him in a D&D group in the summer after my freshman year of college. He was DMing the Deserts of Desolation trilogy. I think that's the first place I met angelbob too. And Dave White. And Cliff-the-disappearing-RA. (I already knew msde from volleyball.) IIRC I pretty much replaced cheerfulchaotic's gnome mage with an elven archer named Janthina who popped into the game via a Wand of Wonder, which those who have played D&D with any other incarnation of Janthina can tell you is pretty much a recipe for disaster.
I could probably tell a similar story for like half of my friends list, though this one hits me just because it was relevant to yesterday, that I was hanging out with a D&D friend, half a planet away from where we first met in a D&D game, around the same time the D&D co-creator died.
So, if you write a response to this... share a D&D-related memory, especially if it's about meeting friends.
You know, it's not D&D itself that I can't imagine in my life, but when I tried to think what my life would be like now without the friends that I made through D&D groups -- all the way back to 1990 or so -- that's when my head explodes.
Heck, even
mithramuse, who came up to Akabane yesterday to hang out while he's on a business trip to Japan... I met him in a D&D group in the summer after my freshman year of college. He was DMing the Deserts of Desolation trilogy. I think that's the first place I met angelbob too. And Dave White. And Cliff-the-disappearing-RA. (I already knew msde from volleyball.) IIRC I pretty much replaced cheerfulchaotic's gnome mage with an elven archer named Janthina who popped into the game via a Wand of Wonder, which those who have played D&D with any other incarnation of Janthina can tell you is pretty much a recipe for disaster.I could probably tell a similar story for like half of my friends list, though this one hits me just because it was relevant to yesterday, that I was hanging out with a D&D friend, half a planet away from where we first met in a D&D game, around the same time the D&D co-creator died.
So, if you write a response to this... share a D&D-related memory, especially if it's about meeting friends.
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"A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course,
And no-one can talk to a corpse, of course,
But I can talk to a corpse, of course,
'Cos I've got Speak with Dead".
...not the memory in best taste, in context, but it put a smile on my face at the time and the memory of it still does.