Gary Gygax - the co-creator of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons - has died at the age of 69. Gygax, regarded as the father of role-playing games, had been suffering from a lowering of his stats for some time.
His wife said that he enjoyed hearing from fans of the hugely-successful game, which spawned computer games, books and movies, saying: “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.”
Gygax’s thoughts on the army of geeks his game has helped to become shelf-stackers, video-rental clerks or unemployable man-children still living with their parents were, however, not recorded.
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