I guess D&D falls into the "do your own thing" category of entrepreneurship. It may have been inspired by an existing product (war games), but ultimately became

I guess D&D falls into the "do your own thing" category of entrepreneurship. It may have been inspired by an existing product (war games), but ultimately became a new type of game and had no guarantee of an eventual payoff. BTW is anyone else a bit surprised by the light tone of the articles about Gygax's death? All the headlines I see seem to be jokes, and I wonder if that's because he was a geek and not, for example, an athlete or musician with "devastated" fans. [Just a somewhat cynical observation.]