{"id":1419,"date":"2008-03-05T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/rip-gary-gygax-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:34:10","slug":"rip-gary-gygax-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/rip-gary-gygax-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gary Gygax Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44545509@N00\/2307595713\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2214\/2307595713_e0d3a085d3_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44545509@N00\/2307595713\/\" title=\"Benimoto\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/small>Earlier I posted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/rip-gary-gygax\/\">Gary Gygax<\/a> one of the founders of Dungeons and Dragons had passed away.  Of course the flood of D&amp;D related jokes would follow.  Here are some of them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the next edition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone the way of Star Frontiers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Analysts warn of a free-fall in Mountain Dew futures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the next town, you meet a stranger named Barry Bygax.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\/Blog\/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryId=4118\">link<\/a> for the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gygax did lose his final saving throw.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/creative-commons\/\" title=\"creative commons\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo_dropper\/images\/cc.png?resize=16%2C16\" class=\"left\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44545509@N00\/2307595713\/\" title=\"Benimoto\" target=\"_blank\">Benimoto<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I posted that Gary Gygax one of the founders of Dungeons and Dragons had passed away. Of course the flood of D&amp;D related jokes would follow. Here are some of them. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the next edition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone the way of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fictionfantasy","wpcat-78-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-mT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}