Talking about people dying, news is just coming in that Gary Gygax has passed away. I only met him once, and we tended to disagree a lot about what role-playing was all about, but without him there would have been no Dungeons & Dragons, and my life would have been much the poorer. (I might, for example, have never met Marc Gascoigne, Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman or Eugene Byrne; and Martin Hoare might never have thought it would be a good idea for me to meet Dave Langford).

So long, Gary. May whichever gods you end up with not be too angry about the number of hit points you allocated them.