Nerd

The word around the internets is that Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away this morning. I spent much of my teenage years happily immersed in D&D. I can’t tell you how many nights Sarah and Kim and Molly and I stayed up until dawn, working our way through Ravenloft or Greyhawk or hack’n’slash-ing through the Tomb of Horrors, drinking Coke and eating M&Ms until we were sick, then crashing in our sleeping bags on the living room floor and sleeping till midafternoon. Good times, good times. I still have all my dragon dice. I keep them in my desk drawer. For some reason I’ve never been able to simply store them away in the attic with my other souvenirs of childhood.