E. Gary Gygax is dead.

I just heard and checked it out on the recently edited wikipedia page (kinda morbid no?)

He died aged 69. He said he had an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm.

A lot of people are very shocked. I never met the guy but I read a few of his books and despite him being the butt of many jokes, he seemed ernest enough and took it all in good humour.

RIP

James Wallis adds an Obit

John C Welch adds an obit. I didn’t even know he was a gamer. Cool.

And one from Reason Magazine