Gary Gygax

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672254 Guy on Hacker News tells how he used to play D&D with the family of Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D:

- Bringing my best friend and watching him start arguing with Gary (without knowing who he was) about how Dwarven women don’t have beards. Kicked him under the table and whispered “he made the f-ing game, if he says they have beards, they have beards!

Joking with some people about the various named spells like the spell lines for Bigby, Tenser and Mordenkainen and being confused why some of them seemed to be talking as if the spells were theirs. Turns out I’d been playing with the people who originally created and played Bigby, Tenser and Mordenkainen, so yes, they were their spells.