Awww Man

A sad day: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8XyHnUHsOBoCofRxK-5waWoAGrAD8V6PL180

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  1. slydyrMarch 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM

    :(

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  2. kyn_elwynnMarch 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    Thank you for not being one of the million who posted with something like: "Failed his Saving Throw vs. Death" or something else insipid. Let's remember the man for what he did, changed the idea of tactical fantasy miniatures into a codified rules experience of fantasy role-playing with a Tolkein-esqued spin.

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  3. slydyrMarch 4, 2008 at 8:05 PM

    As someone who made a "failed his saving throw" comment, and not that I would argue that was a little trite, it was meant with the deepest respect to what a great man created :) AD&D was how I met redwolf, and the rest of the nighthawkes, got involved in the SCA, met the Droogs, and made so many memories I can't even count... Hell, Nighthhawk was one of redwolf's characters. Maybe it would have been more appropriate to say that he cast "plane shift", and I won't deny that alot of the "saving throw versus death" posts around the internet were people mocking him... just saying that mine wasn't ;)

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