Damn.

Just.

Damn.

(find your own links people, I'm going to go to bed and pull the covers over my head and wish I was 12 again 'cause this shit ain't funny any more)

This shit has been happening way too much this year.

I have a lot of his books to go back and read.

aw damnit

Very saddened by this loss.

I greatly enjoyed his Myth books at a certain age.  I will remember him.

I spent forevers trying to figure out how to make a Myth-inspired magic system for Basic D&D when I was 13, but it always ended up horribly unbalanced.

Man, I really loved those books.  I've included the Deva Bazaar in many, many campaigns, and always thought that the Myth series was a major influence on the Planescape setting (especially the way extradimensional beings saw even powerful primers as hopelessly provincial).  Awesome stuff.

Cheers to Robert Asprin

This is very sad.  Pardon the silly analogy, but 15-20 years ago his ...Myth... series of books were my Harry Potter-equivalent.

The Myth books have always been a 'must get' for me. While I may not have liked some of the changes that happened as the series evolved, I never once thought of not getting the next one.

I remember getting the very first Myth book off the shelf in the basement when I was ten, the day my young world had just become unbelievable. It was raining.  I may not have understood everything, not even the pun in the title, but I enjoyed it immensely.

I shall go and reread most of the series as a grand sendoff... whatever I have available.  Fairwell Skeeve the Magnificent, Aazh, Tandy and of course Guido and Nunzio... who have inspired several NPCs for me.  Fairwell Mr. Asprin, wherever you are.

Damn indeed.  It seems like all of the old school writers of RPG and fantasy that I enjoyed so much are quickly leaving us and I don't see many of the same caliber coming along to take their places.

Those were some damned entertaining books Mr. Asprin, rest in peace.

Robert Aspirin was another I met at DRAGON*CON. I never figured out what happened with the Myth Adventures series. I bought one when I was in college, read it in one sitting, went back the next day and bought all the rest of them and read them as quickly as I could- they go pretty fast. Then, just when the series was getting really good, and one of the forwards suggested that they'd be coming out at the rate of 1 or 2 a year, instead they stopped.
And that was the last I'd seen of them for decades. Sometimes I'd see something in the bookstore that got me excited, but it only turned out to be the same stories in a new cover or a story collection format.

And then finally whatever limbo they'd been in ended and the stories started again. Except, they weren't being written by Robert Aspirin anymore, they were being written by a co-author, and RA just signed his name to them. And the stories weren't good any more. Either because the author had changed (likely) or the reader had changed (me, just as likely) or because my expectations were so high after such a long wait (like EPISODE I) that nothing could have matched them.

A long wait, no payoff. Very disappointed.
Then I heard Robert Apsirin talk at his DragonCon panel, and he was far too much like Aahz and far too little like Skeeve for my tastes.
Sad.