Read his CNN Obituary here.

As a roleplayer and a gamer, I owe much to Mr. Gygax and his creation - the original satanist recruitment device itself, Dungeons and Dragons. I wouldn't be running games with vampires, werewolves, mages, samurai, ninja, and priests every week, nor would I have spent that dark period in 2003 addicted to Ragnarok...

Hope you get a 20 on your reincarnation roll.