Sad news indeed! D&D was my introduction to F2F RPGing and, altho I moved on to Traveller for the Sci-Fi, we kept a D&D campaign going for years because the wives found it more enjoyable to play that the "guns and spaceships" type. Funny how this, the first RPG, was attractive to members of  both genders, while most of the following seemed only attractive to males...

mike