從哪裡開始 從哪裡失去

Dungeons and Dragons creator dies

The game Gygax co-created became part of youth sub-culture


Gary Gygax, co-creator of the first role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, has died at the age of 69.

Gygax, who developed the game in 1974 with Dave Arneson, had been suffering from health problems for 
several years.

Famous for its mythical creatures and odd-shaped dice, Dungeons and Dragons was an instant success that spawned a slew of video games, books and films.

Gygax was also a author who wrote numerous fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.

He died on Tuesday at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, leaving a wife and six children.


Skills and abilities

Ernest Gary Gygax grew up in Chicago, moving to Lake Geneva at the age of eight.

His father, a Swiss immigrant, read fantasy books that got his son hooked on the genre, according to Gygax's widow Gail.

Gygax was working as an insurance underwriter in the 1960s when he began playing war-themed board games.

It was these that inspired him and Arneson to develop Dungeons and Dragons, in which players create fictional characters by rolling dice that determine their skills and abilities.

An estimated 20 million people worldwide have played the game, with more than $1bn (￡505m) spent on equipment and books.

D&D rules grew out of war gaming in the early 1970s "I thought we would sell about 50,000 copies," Gygax told the BBC News website in 2004.

Gygax and Arneson sold their rights to Dungeons and Dragons in the 1990s, when the game's popularity began to wane.

According to his widow, though, he hosted weekly games as recently as January.

"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman," she said.

我不知道該說什麼來表達我的震驚與哀痛

龍與地下城是目前西方角色扮演遊戲最大的主流之一，包括龍槍編年史系列、被遺忘的國度系列等小說，風行全世界的桌上RPG

柏德之門、冰風之谷、絕冬城之夜……
柏德之門是我最愛的一套遊戲

我討厭這種、好像一個時代完結了的感覺