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	<title>Aaron Mentele &#187; Gary Gygax</title>
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		<title>Respect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons &#38; Dragons (and TSR), passed away today. I&#8217;ve never met the man but have always named his creation as a significant influence on my direction. In my youngster years, D&#38;D + small town boredom lured me towards fiction reading / drawing. By early high school, a few of my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons &amp; Dragons (and TSR), passed away today. I&#8217;ve never met the man but have always named his creation as a significant influence on my direction.</p>
<p>In my youngster years, D&amp;D + small town boredom lured me towards fiction reading / drawing. By early high school, a few of my illustrations had been picked up and published in TSR modules. Some of that feedback encouraged me to decline a health science scholarship and instead pursue a split major in art / biology. I finished my post grad studies as an Architect and then jumped track even further to give chase to a web career.</p>
<p>If not for the creative encouragement, I&#8217;d have chosen science. I&#8217;d be prescribing amoxicillin right now, and I can&#8217;t imagine I&#8217;d be enjoying it.</p>
<p>So, sorry for the wandering topic, but I wanted to pay a small amount of respect to a life well played. Godspeed, sir. Thanks for the stories. (And for the name of this blog.)</p>
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