Gary Gygax has passed on to the astral plane

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dear friends,
i am breaking my extended livejournal hiatus to report the following sad news: Gary Gygax is dead. i think that Troll Lord speaks for us all in his post , which i will quote here:

It is almost too much to get my mind about. But I've just had news that our dear Dungeon Master has passed away. Ernie called this morning, he thought we

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!

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And gamers everywhere wept polyhedral tears. I forgot to ask if you'd heard about this last night, as I knew you'd have something to say about it.

crisper says:

...every gamer nerd on the planet should chip in some dough and we should build Gary Gygax an enormous tomb filled with the deadliest traps ever devised.

Wil Wheaton also has a nice post.