RIP Lou Zocchi

In the midst of Mepacon was the sad announcement of the passing of "Colonel" Lou Zocchi, the legend within dice, wargmaing, and everything else he touched, whether it succeeded or not.  

He was a wargamer, an author, a designer, a publisher, and a distributor of gaming  him primarily as the "Father of the 100-sided die (The Zocchihedron)", his "razor-edged" polyhedrals that rolled more accurately, and a host of funky dice well before some of the current dice manufacturers were even board but I orginally remember the name for the ads his company, Gamescience put in issues of Dragon Magazine. 

Be it the Star Fleet Battle Manual, a Spitfire game, or a listing for TWERPS, I know our college  group bought most of his advertised catalog.  Some of it was dated, some of it was dated in a good way.

I never had the opportunity to meet the man, much less his spiel on dice which online videos shows is a mixture of the aimed charisma of a snake oil salesman, coupled with true zealotry for the product he was selling.