At the Times, Adam Rogers on Gary Gygax and the world he created. There's a great chart! I always feel slightly sheepish that I did not seriously play either video games or fantasy role-playing games as a child, it seems very much the kind of thing I would have liked only I was always excessively book-oriented--but a lot of the items on the chart made me laugh, I do indeed remember my handmade Gandalf costume from fifth grade and it is even possible that I used it again the next year...
(And Ed Park has had a good string of Gygax links and remiscences at the Dizzies this week.)
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Yes, Gygax's books not so heavily recommended....
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Also now thinking how Gygaxian the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator seems. Compare MBTI classification with description versus, say, AD&D alignment with description.
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