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Attached to the hilarious — if technically inaccurate — chart I blogged yesterday is an appreciation for D&D creator Gary Gygax, who died last week, penned by Wired editor Adam Rogers. "Gygax's genius was to give players a way to inhabit the characters inside their games, rather than to merely command faceless hordes, as you did in, say, the board game Risk." The unintended result: "Every time I make a tactical move, I'm counting my experience points, hoping I have enough dexterity and rolling the dice."
Universe turns out to be modeled on Dungeons & Dragons
12:45 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Paul Boutin
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FOr a counterpoint, here's Eric Sofge's excellent piece over at Slate:
[www.slate.com]
Ummm, I have to have that graphic as a full-sized wall poster. How do I get it? Seriously. What? Stop laughing Owen.
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