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     • Ernest Gary Gygax (/ ˈɡaɪɡæks / GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
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   • Gary Gygax, a pioneer of the imagination who transported a fantasy realm of wizards, goblins and elves onto millions of kitchen tables around the world through the game he helped create, Dungeons & Dragons, died Tuesday at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis. He was 69.

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   Is Gary Gygax dead or still alive?

   • Ernest Gary Gygax ( pronounced: /ˈ g aɪ g ɑː k s /GY-gaks ), born July 27, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois; died March 4, 2008, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, aged 69 years) was best known as the author of Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D ), co-created with Dave Arneson and co-published with Don Kaye in 1974 under the company TSR, Inc..

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   What happened to Gary Gygax?

   • In October 1970, Gary Gygax lost his job at an insurance company after nearly nine years of service. Unemployed and now the father of five children, he sought to turn his passion for games into a career by designing board games for commercial sale. Although he sold some of his games, it wasn’t something that he could make a living off of.

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   Is Gary Gygax still in D&D?

   • Gygax’s AD&D was published under the TSR logo for three more years, until Wizards dropped the TSR logo (as well as the “Advanced” moniker) for good with the publication of third edition Dungeons & Dragons. Nevertheless, Gary Gygax remains an icon of the roleplaying game field.

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   Ernest Gary Gygax (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ɡ æ k s / GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention.

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   Mar 10, 2008 · The host is Gary Gygax, and the occasion is a game convention in his hometown of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, this past June. Gygax, 68. is a cocreator and popularizer of the most influential game...

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   By Kyle Carmean. If you’re someone who loves role-playing games, whether it be tabletop or video games, then you owe a lot to the man who pretty much invented the genre. Gary Gygax is known as the father of the RPG for his role in co-creating the phenomenon known as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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   May 1, 2024 · Ernest Gary Gygax was an American entrepreneur who in 1974, together with his war-gaming friend David Arneson, created the world’s first fantasy role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), and ultimately paved the way for modern electronic RPGs.

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   Mar 5, 2008 · Gary Gygax, a pioneer of the imagination who transported a fantasy realm of wizards, goblins and elves onto millions of kitchen tables around the world through the game he helped create,...

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    Ernest Gary Gygax ( pronounced: /ˈ g aɪ g ɑː k s /GY-gaks [1] [2] ), born July 27, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois; died March 4, 2008, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, aged 69 years) was best known as the author of Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D ), co-created with Dave Arneson and co-published with Don Kaye in 1974 under the company TSR, Inc..

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    Gary Gygax of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Dave Arneson of the Twin Cities region in Minnesota, were both introduced to hobby gaming through Avalon Hill’s historical wargame Gettysburg in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Gettysburg inspired them both to begin designing their own games.