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Gary Gygax
$\"A$ Gygax at Gen Con Indy 2007
Born	Ernest Gary Gygax (1938-07-27)July 27, 1938^[1] Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 4, 2008(2008-03-04) (aged 69) Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, U.S.
Resting place	Oak Hill Cemetery (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin)
Occupation	Writer, game designer
Period	1971\u20132008
Genre	Role-playing games, fantasy, wargames
Spouse	\n \n Mary Jo Powell \n (m. 1958; div. 1983) \n \n Gail Carpenter (m. 1987) \n
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Ernest Gary Gygax (/\u02c8\u0261a\u026a\u0261\u00e6ks/ GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 \u2013 March 4, 2008)^[2] 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.\n

In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con tabletop game convention. In 1971, he co-developed Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare with Jeff Perren. He co-founded the company (TSR) (originally Tactical Studies Rules) with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The next year, TSR published D&D, created by Gygax and Arneson the year before. In 1976, he founded The Dragon, a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, he began developing a more comprehensive version of the game called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. He designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called \"modules\" that gave a person running a D&D game (the \"Dungeon Master\") a rough script and ideas. In 1983, he worked to license the D&D product line into the successful D&D cartoon series.\n

Gygax left TSR in 1986 over conflicts with its new majority owner, but he continued to create role-playing game titles independently, beginning with the multi-genre Dangerous Journeys in 1992. He designed the Lejendary Adventure gaming system, released in 1999. In 2005, he was involved in the Castles & Crusades role-playing game, which was conceived as a hybrid between the third edition of D&D and the original version of the game.\n

In 2004, he had two strokes and narrowly avoided a subsequent heart attack; he was then diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm and died in March 2008 at age 69. Following Gygax's funeral, many mourners formed an impromptu game event which became known as Gary Con 0, and gamers celebrate in Lake Geneva each March with a large role-playing game convention in Gygax's honor.\n

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Early life and inspiration

Wargames

TSR

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Hollywood

Leaving TSR

After TSR

1985\u20131989: New Infinities Productions, Inc.

1990\u20131994: Dangerous Journeys

1995\u20132000: Lejendary Adventures

2000\u20132008: Later works and death

Personal life

Awards and honors

In popular culture

See also

References

External links

Gary Gygax - American game designer and author (1938–2008)

Gary Gygax - American game designer and author (1938–2008)