for fantasy and taste

Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax passed away yesterday morning at the age of 69. His pioneering work in formalizing the concept of make-believe though complex tables, graph paper, and polyhedral dice allowed generations of social misfits to directly express their power projection and other vicarious fantasies in a relatively controlled (and frequently contentious) environment.

I've already discussed my qualified affection for the hobby in this classic post, so instead of simply restating what I said last April, I thought I'd pay my respects to the man who taught me the difference between a bardiche and a glaive by spotlighting what I hold to be Mr. Gygax's greatest work, which appeared in an appendix to the 1979 first edition of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide:


Luck be a lady of the evening tonight (but preferably a "brazen strumpet" rather than an "aged madam".)

Billy Idol - Flesh for Fantasy (from Rebel Yell, 1983) - What happens if you roll a critical fumble on a "sex attack"? (Please don't say "weapon breakage.") And into what category of the above table does Heidi Fleiss fall?