Submission + - R.I.P.: Dungeons & Dragons Co-creator Dave Arn (scifiwire.com) 1
Dave Knott writes: "Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game passed away on Tuesday at the age of 61 after a long struggle with cancer. Arneson, along with Gary Gygax, drafted the original rules for D&D and, after failing to get any interest from mainstream publishers, formed Tactical Studies Rules (better known as TSR), jump-starting the role-playing games genre and publishing industry. Arneson left TSR in 1979 under the cloud of a lawsuit, the full details of which were never disclosed. He also founded the still active computer games company 4D Interactive, and spent much of the latter part of his life teaching role-playing game design."