How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Gary Gygax set the wheels of my fate in motion.Even though I never met him, Mr. Gygax has had more influence on my life than just about any other human on the planet.
I can remember the first time I ever saw the box set of D&D with the red dragon on the cover, I was 12 years old. From that point onward, nothing would ever be the same. I became so obsessed with D&D and rpg's in general that I actually flunked out of 6th grade.
I haven't played in18 years or so, but I can credit D&D with:
1. Me becoming an athiest.
2. My intense interest in computers (which is the field I work in now).
3. My love of Monty Python.
4. A very good understanding of probabilities.
5. The huge amount of reading that I did as a kid, to the point of reading university level European history texts when I was 12 or 13 years old.
6. My general outlook on life.
I have been sad all week remembering all this stuff and thinking about all my D&D adventures, it makes me want to climb up in the attic and find all my books and modules a fire up a campaign.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 19:21, Reply)
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