March 25, 2008 3:43 PM PDT
MIT students erect giant 20-sided die in Gary Gygax tribute
In a tribute to Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons, MIT students erected a huge 20-sided die on campus.
(Credit: Eric Schmiedl)Over at Laughing Squid this afternoon, I found a wonderful item about some ingenuity on the part of some obvious Dungeons & Dragons MIT students.
Apparently, according to The Tech, MIT's student paper, the students put the giant die up in the campus' Killian Court as a way of paying tribute to the late Gary Gygax, who created the iconic game.
This, obviously, isn't huge news, but it's yet a wonderful example of people using a little bit of whimsy and a little bit of creativity and mashing them up to make something that tugs the heartstrings.
Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between. E-mail Daniel. 
assed tents that look better. This is in no way an lawn ornament,
much less a monument.
Go get some construction skills, kidos. Every man should have at
least SOME DIY ability. Sheesh.
- by suckittrebeck October 25, 2009 9:20 AM PDT
- It's actually a fine piece of memorial. I have not see any other better than it, or even any other memorial, so why complain about it? Besides, students at MIT do not have hours and hours to put together a grand memorial. They have studying to do - duh....
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