i hope they bury him in a huge dragon shaped crypt with a haunted yet enchanted sword along with a 108 side die

Oh SPOnG, you are so cheeky. But you reminded me of a conversation I was having last night about Patrick Moore. Basically that it breaks my heart to see him wheeled out on The Sky At Night now that he's getting a bit frail. Then we remembered that as he is Gamesmaster, perhaps he can find a cheat code to give him extra health, e.g. by bashing out notes in a certain order on his xylophone.

PS I believe 'scythe' should have an 'e' on the end.

so would that be Scythee?

JK

And since he had nothing to do with D&D after AD&D 2e, armor points have no correlation with him.

Subtitle = fail.

Thank you for that clarification. If we're going to be really pedantic, he had nothing to do with Mass Effect or any of the video games I mentioned either. This is aside from the fact that he did have a lot to do with kicking the whole genre into being - which was the point.

Personally, I played one game of AD&D and moved rapidly on from this form of conformist 'gaming'.

I returned to forming my own chaotic battles after which the 1/32 scale Airfix Australian Army would cut up meat for a barbie with the Afrika Korps (who brought the booze). Friendly English Captain Stoates would often turn up with a cheery wave before the Yanks piled in (late), didn't bring anything, ate everything and got stoned.

I have reproduced it below:



But that's just me.