On writing about icons....
Mar. 6th, 2008 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentIt was weirdly emotional to write about Gygax on 'Snark. I expected some emotion. In part, that's why I write remembrances like that -- they help me get my head around things that I feel strongly about.
But this one... it's like I tried to say in there. Gygax was too seminal to my life and my perception of roleplaying.
A few people have been upset that I brought up... well, 1982-86. But more seem glad to have a chance to remember all of Gygax, good and ill, and the impact he had on our world.
One person mentioned to me that her parents met playing AD&D first edition. This is a human life that wouldn't have existed before.
All in all, it was cathartic. Now, while I await my hard-won Dragon archive, a friend has loaned me his, and I'm steeping myself in old Dragon magazines.
Wormy really was one of the best fantasy comics, like, ever. Wasn't it?
But this one... it's like I tried to say in there. Gygax was too seminal to my life and my perception of roleplaying.
A few people have been upset that I brought up... well, 1982-86. But more seem glad to have a chance to remember all of Gygax, good and ill, and the impact he had on our world.
One person mentioned to me that her parents met playing AD&D first edition. This is a human life that wouldn't have existed before.
All in all, it was cathartic. Now, while I await my hard-won Dragon archive, a friend has loaned me his, and I'm steeping myself in old Dragon magazines.
Wormy really was one of the best fantasy comics, like, ever. Wasn't it?