A little belated: Gary Gygax, the man who co-invented Dungeons and Dragons, author of the first edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and co-founder of TSR, Inc. (tactical studies rules), died last week on the 4th of March.
While strictly speaking not a philosopher, in fact not a philosopher at all, I always liked Pete's description of philosophy degrees as 'top gun for nerds'. In this vein I feel his passing should be recognised by the greater nerd community which we are probably part of.
Games and the rules that define them...
ReplyDeleteWhere would we be without em?
Here's to Gary (rolls a 20)
Has anybody finished cataloging the rules within philosophy yet? Those language games and all that? Maybe we could restricted it to a smaller domain like Ethics? If we then added chance and imaginary outcomes (ain't imaginary outcomes a regular part of philosophy?) we could market it as the D20 Ethics rpg : saint or sinner?
... or maybe not.