This news really bums me out. I suppose Suicide Girls-land doesn't know a lot about my personal life or my hobbies. So, here's a shocker for you...I play Dungeons and Dragons.
I have been playing D&D now pretty consistently for well over a decade of my life, which for someone who is 25 is a huge thing to say. I'm still not used to saying I've done something for over a decade. And actually, there are very few things, that I have continued with in my life that have lasted that long. Being a huge nerd is one of them, and honestly that's one of the things I am most proud of in my life. I'm glad that I spent my weekends in the basement with my imagination instead of out partying or doing something stupid. It helped improve my imagination, gave me a life long love of reading and writing, helped my rather weak basic math skills and strange as it might sound, really improved my social skills. The one thing though, that I can say D&D did for me, was show me who my real friends were...I started playing D&D when I was in 7th grade. Middle school was very polarizing. Some of the people I thought were my friends really turned on me in the name of popularity. I wasn't one of the cool kids, and I didn't want to be. But, I made some new friends, and those friendships really lasted. And what did we do with our free time? Read comic books, play video games, and roll dice together in D&D adventures. It was a lot of fun back then, and despite the fact that I might do it with a different group of people now, it still is. And, I can still safely say that the people I play with these days are some of my best friends, and some of the truest most loyal people I've ever known.
Gary Gygax has really helped to give the world a great gift. He will be missed.
I have been playing D&D now pretty consistently for well over a decade of my life, which for someone who is 25 is a huge thing to say. I'm still not used to saying I've done something for over a decade. And actually, there are very few things, that I have continued with in my life that have lasted that long. Being a huge nerd is one of them, and honestly that's one of the things I am most proud of in my life. I'm glad that I spent my weekends in the basement with my imagination instead of out partying or doing something stupid. It helped improve my imagination, gave me a life long love of reading and writing, helped my rather weak basic math skills and strange as it might sound, really improved my social skills. The one thing though, that I can say D&D did for me, was show me who my real friends were...I started playing D&D when I was in 7th grade. Middle school was very polarizing. Some of the people I thought were my friends really turned on me in the name of popularity. I wasn't one of the cool kids, and I didn't want to be. But, I made some new friends, and those friendships really lasted. And what did we do with our free time? Read comic books, play video games, and roll dice together in D&D adventures. It was a lot of fun back then, and despite the fact that I might do it with a different group of people now, it still is. And, I can still safely say that the people I play with these days are some of my best friends, and some of the truest most loyal people I've ever known.
Gary Gygax has really helped to give the world a great gift. He will be missed.