Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!campaignwiki.org!.POSTED.staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl!not-for-mail From: kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: {Game Developer] Obituary: Jim Ward, Dungeons & Dragons designer, died at age 72 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:38:13 +0100 Organization: Campaign Wiki Message-ID: References: <66020e44$2$6047$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:38:13 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: sibirocobombus.campaignwiki; posting-host="staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl:31.183.178.178"; logging-data="349098"; mail-complaints-to="alex@alexschroeder.ch" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:9maqHbyHfVMNDpKvCNzBU60ykWI= sha256:XWgbCuDaIb9bUViPbeIAt1OytKaDZCJpeZ80ftJZ//Q= sha1:vZWL/Hp/mdyS/mX9Sam07rf6qUc= sha256:VoN3RTxLcfTfkbYwgVm79K/VG45KSI1pft3JRZoYZas= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <66020e44$2$6047$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Bytes: 1984 Lines: 17 On 3/26/2024 12:52 AM, gbbgu wrote: > On 22 Mar 2024, kyonshi wrote: > >> Source: >> https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-jim-ward-dungeons-dragons-designer-died-at-age-72 >> >> Obituary: Jim Ward, Dungeons & Dragons designer, died at age 72 >> > > Damn, losing all the names that have been around the industry forever. > It's the unrelenting march of time. The hobby has been around for over 50 years now (when did the first fantasy campaign start? '71? '72?), and the people who were involved in the beginning were not kids back then either. We'll have a constant stream of deaths coming up from now on. Well, we had one already. That also is part of hobbies growing unfortunately.