After a two-year battle with cancer, Dave Arneson co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons passed away on Tuesday, April 7th. He was 61.Last year the other half of D&D's creative team passed.
The two had been out of the company that owns D&D for more than twenty years. TSR, the company created to distribute the game had forced them out by the mid 1980s. TSR was purchased in the late 1990s by Wizards of the Coast, the owners of a little game called Magic: The Gathering. Wizards was then purchased by Hasbro.
So, the game created by a couple of upper mid-western boys hosting gaming conventions in a basement is now owned by a faceless corporation.
At least we still have treasures like this lurking in a used book store just waiting to be dusted off and let loose on our imagination.
2 comments:
/salute the the creators of D&D. They are the real birthplace of sword, magic, elves in our fantasy games.
From my gaming group here in Kenosha to all those around the globe that have played any part of this awesome series of games, I feel we all mourn this loss of such a creative mind.
he will be critically missed
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