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Nov 2, 2015 · According to Michael Witwer’s new biography of Gygax, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons,” U.S. Army intelligence sent two agents to infiltrate Gygax’s...
He married Mary Jo Powell on September 14, 1958, and they had five children: Ernie, Elise, Heidi, Cindy, and Luke. The couple became Jehovah's Witnesses, but he eventually separated from that religion. He remained a Christian, and he cited his favorite Bible verses of Matthew 5:15–16 a few months before he died.
- "Father of role-playing games"
- March 4, 2008 (aged 69), Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Oak Hill Cemetery (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin)
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Oct 24, 2022 · At least for some of his life, Gary Gygax was a Jehovah's Witness. And so the game always had these very Christian elements in it. The game was about good versus evil.
- Substance Abuse. Sadly, Gygax battled with addiction throughout his life. Notably, he was addicted to cocaine, which contributed to the breakdown and eventual ending of his marriage to Mary in 1983.
- TV Work. Gygax was the co-producer of the D&D Cartoon series for CBS. This series lasted 3 seasons, and although the script was found for a conclusive episode, it was cancelled before it could be released.
- Distancing from Jehovah’s Witnesses. Due to the bad rap D&D was getting in the media - namely the satanic associations - as well as his smoking and drinking, Gygax was obliged to dissociate himself from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Origins of the Name. Supposedly, the series gets its name from Gygax’s daughter, who chose D&D out of a list of other potential titles. This was when she was just 2 years old!
A Jehovah's Witness, Gygax was apparently troubled by the idea of a stat-blocked angel - and when readers called him out on the hypocrisy of having a problem with stat-blocked angels but not stat-blocked demons and devils, the editorial staff of The Dragon really had to come of with some twisted, bizarre logic not to make this sound like ...
Sep 29, 2022 · It’s a tale that begins in 1970 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, when a Jehovah’s Witness and high-school dropout named Gary Gygax lost his job as an insurance underwriter.
Nov 4, 2020 · Gary Gygax is a name synonymous with early D&D. But where did the game designer who founded a genre get his start? Dungeons & Dragons changed the gaming landscape forever, quickly rising from its humble beginnings in the wargaming scene of the late sixties and early seventies, to create an entire industry, atop which it still rules to this day.
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