In article <9ln5t31r9hl7c4olcccbcpepjro6734j7p@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Langford <ansible@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> _E. Gary Gygax_ (1938-2008), US game designer and fantasy novelist
>best known for his creation (with Dave Arneson) of the original,
>enormously influential _Dungeons & Dragons_ role-playing game, died on
>4 March aged 69. [LP] I liked the on-line suggestion that fans should
>club together to build him a vast tomb full of the deadliest imaginable
>traps.
I've heard -- at second hand, to be sure -- that some online fans
were making a genuine effort to buy his family a diamond worth $1000.
(In earlier editions of D&D, a diamond worth 1000 GP was among the
material components of the "Raise Dead" spell.)
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