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The inventor of Dungeons and Dragons has run out of hit points. Gary Gygax, the man responsible for some of my most unproductive yet beloved hours died this week.

I discovered D & D at a summer camp just after I finished eighth grade. Before that, I was a normal kid, playing volleyball with other kids… outside. Then I wandered into one of the cabins where a bunch of boys with braces and eyeglasses, who had never talked to girls, huddled over mysterious pieces of paper and rolled strange gem-like dice. These guys were the stereotype of D & D kids, and I was hooked.