Ernest Gary Gygax
Gygax at Gen Con Indy 2007
Born	July 27, 1938(1938-07-27) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Died	March 4, 2008 (aged 69) Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Occupation	writer, game designer
Nationality	United States
Writing period	1971–2008
Genres	role-playing games, fantasy, wargames
Influences J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft,[1] Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) (IPA: [ˈɡaj.ɡæks]^[2]) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson in 1974, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973. After leaving TSR, Gygax continued to author role-playing game titles independently, including another gaming system called Lejendary Adventure.^[3] Gygax is generally acknowledged as one of the fathers of the tabletop role-playing game. ^[4] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,536 × 2,048 pixels, file size: 636 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The original description page is/was here. ... Gen Con is the one of the largest and most prominent gaming conventions in North America. ... is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Biography

Early life and inspiration

Gygax was the son of Swiss immigrant Ernst Gygax, and an American, Almina Emelie Burdick. His love of gaming began at the age of five, playing pinochle and chess as well as the imaginative games of any child, similar to live action role-playing. He played with Jim Rasch as referee/game master and John Rasch and Don Kaye as fellow participants. It was during this timeframe that Gygax began exploring science fiction with Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" in Bluebook and Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror. Pinochle (sometimes Pinocle or Penuchle), is a trick-taking game typically for two, three or four players and played with a 48 card deck. ... This article is about the Western board game. ... A live action role-playing game, or LARP as it is commonly known, is a form of role-playing game where the participants perform some or all of the physical actions of the characters they play the role of. ... This article is about refereeing in sports. ... In role-playing games, the game master or GM is the organizer, storyteller, and arbitrator. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... The Veldt is a short story by Ray Bradbury. ... Blue Book was a popular 20th-century magazine which had a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. ...

In 1953 Gygax began playing miniature war games with Kaye. The game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company captured Gygax's attention. It was from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hexagon mapping sheets that were available. He began looking for innovative ways to generate random numbers, and used not only common dice (with six sides), but dice of all five platonic solid shapes. Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming designed to incorporate miniatures or figurines into play. ... Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill which re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. ... Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. ... Two standard six-sided pipped dice with rounded corners. ... In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex regular polyhedron. ...

Gaming career

In 1966, the International Federation of Wargamers (IFW) was created with the assistance of Gygax.^[5] The International Federation of Wargamers (IFW) was founded by Gary Gygax, Bill Speer, and Scott Duncan in 1966. ...

Gygax organized a 20-person gaming meet in 1967. It was held in the basement of his home and later became known as "Gen Con 0" as this meet birthed the annual Gen Con gaming convention in 1968. Gen Con is now North America's largest annual hobby-game gathering.^[6] Gen Con is also where Gary Gygax would meet Brian Blume and Dave Arneson. Blume later partnered with Gygax and Kaye in the TSR enterprise. Gen Con is the one of the largest and most prominent gaming conventions in North America. ... A gaming convention is typically a two- or three-day convention at which people play role-playing games, collectible card games, miniatures wargames, board games, or other types of games. ... North American redirects here. ... David L. Arneson is an American game designer born in 1955. ...

"I'm very fond of the Medieval period, the Dark Ages in particular. We started playing in the period because I had found appropriate miniatures. I started devising rules where what the plastic figure was wearing was what he had. If he had a shield and no armor, then he just has a shield. Shields and half-armor = half-armor rules; full-armor figure = full armor rules. I did rules for weapons as well."^[4] The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... Petrarch, who conceived the idea of a European Dark Age. ...

Together with Don Kaye, Mike Reese and Leon Tucker, Gygax created a military miniatures society, Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA), with its first headquarters in Gygax's basement.^[6] The Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) was a prominent wargaming club active in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin during the 1960s and 1970s. ...

In 1971, Gygax and Jeff Perren wrote Chainmail, a miniatures wargame from which the role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons (aka D&D) was developed.^[7] Cover for the third edition of Chainmail (1975). ...

TSR

Original logo for Tactical Studies Rules, 1973 – 1974. The G stood for Gygax, the K for Kaye

Gygax and Kaye founded the publishing company Tactical Studies Rules in 1973 and published the first version of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1974. Gygax was inspired by Jack Vance while developing the spell systems and also drew upon the work of such renowned fantasy authors as Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Fritz Leiber. The hand-assembled print run of 1000 copies sold out within nine months.^[6] In the same year, Gygax hired Tim Kask to assist in the transition of the magazine The Strategic Review into the fantasy periodical, The Dragon, with Gygax as author and later as columnist.^[6] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)[1] was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. ... Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Fritz Leiber portrait by Ed Emshwiller on July 1969 special issue devoted to Leiber. ... The cover of the 300th issue Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products. ...

After the death of Kaye in 1976, his widow sold her shares to Gygax. Gygax, now controlling the whole of Tactical Studies Rules, created TSR Hobbies, Inc. Gygax, coming into financial troubles soon after, sold TSR Hobbies to Brian Blume and his brother Kevin. The Blume family would own roughly two-thirds of TSR Hobbies by late 1976. TSR, Inc. ...

Tactical Studies Rules published the two first printings of the original D&D and TSR Hobbies, Inc. continued on with the game.

Beginning in 1977, a new version of D&D was created, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D).^[4] The Monster Manual would be the first rule book of the new system, with many books to follow. The AD&D rules were not compatible with those of D&D and as a result, D&D and AD&D would have distinct product lines and expansions. For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... Current Monster Manual (v3. ...

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"I was pretty much boxed out of the running of the company because the two guys, who between them had a controlling interest, thought they could run the company better than I could. I was set up because I could manage. In 1982 nobody on the West Coast would deal with TSR, but they had me start a new corporation called "Dungeons and Dragons Entertainment." It took a long time and a lot of hard work to get to be recognized as someone who was for real and not just a civilian, shall we say, in entertainment. Eventually, though, we got the cartoon show going (on CBS) and I had a number of other projects in the works. While I was out there, though, I heard that the company was in severe financial difficulties and one of the guys, the one I was partnered with, was shopping it on the street in New York. I came back and discovered a number of gross mismanagements in all areas of the company. The bank was foreclosing and we were a million and a half in debt. We eventually got that straightened out, but I kind of got one of my partners kicked out of office. (Kevin Blume, who was removed as TSR CEO in 1984 - ed.). Then my partners, in retribution for that, sold his shares to someone else (Lorraine Williams - ed.). I tried to block it in court, but in the ensuing legal struggle the judge ruled against me. I lost control of the company, and it was then at that point I just decided to sell out."^[4]

Late career

After leaving TSR, Gygax created Dangerous Journeys, an RPG spanning multiple genres.^[4] He began work in 1995 on a new RPG, originally intended for a computer game; however, it was released in 1999 as Lejendary Adventure. A key goal of its design was to keep the gaming rules as simple as possible, as Gygax felt that role playing games were becoming discouragingly complex to new users. Dangerous Journeys is a roleplaying game created by Gary Gygax, the creator of the original Dungeons & Dragons system. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

In 2005, Gygax returned to the Dungeons & Dragons RPG with his involvement in the creation of the Castles & Crusades system with Troll Lord Games. Troll Lord Games has published Castle Zagyg, the previously unreleased, original version of Gygax's Castle Greyhawk with the original dungeon setting for D&D. Castles & Crusades is a role-playing game published by Troll Lord Games in 2004. ... Castle Greyhawk as shown on the cover of Greyhawk Ruins (TSR, Inc. ...

Television appearances

In 2007, Gygax had a special guest appearance as himself on the G4TV show Code Monkeys, when Todd sought him out and offered actress Molly Ringwald as a "virgin sacrifice" to Gygax to restore Todd's Charisma, Strength, Dexterity, and Sexual Stamina points.^[8][9] G4 was a cable television channel devoted to the world of video games and the people who play them. ... For the phrase on which this programs title is based, see code monkey. ... Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. ... An Attribute (also called a statistic, characteristic or ability) is an abstract number (or, in some cases, a set of dice) which represents a single aspect of a fictional character in a role-playing game. ...

He also lent his voice to his cartoon self in the episode "Anthology of Interest I" of the TV show Futurama. Anthology of Interest I is episode sixteen in season two of Futurama. ... This article is about the television series. ...

Other appearances

Gygax performed voiceover narration as a guest dungeon master in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. He narrates "Dead Girl's Spellbook" in Valak's Mausoleum as well as all of the dungeons in the "Mystery of Delera's Tomb" quest chain. Players interacting in Ultima Online, a classic MMORPG. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (CRPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. ...

Personal life

Gygax married Gail Carpenter on August 15, 1987, the same day as his parents' 50th anniversary. As of 2005, he was father to six children and grandfather to seven. His first five children are from his first marriage to Mary Jo Gygax, and the last child is from his second marriage.^[6] Gygax resided in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He described his studio in his typical narrative fashion as This article is about the day of the year. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... Location of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Road sign For the lake in Wisconsin, see Geneva Lake. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

A small but sunny upper room — cluttered with books, magazines, papers, and who-knows-what else. Right now, pending the redecorating of that room, I am lodged in the downstairs dining room at a long table that holds two computers and a scanner, with the printer hiding to one side below it. The radio there in the studio was usually tuned to a classical music station, but the station was sold, programming changed, so now I work sans music, or now and then with a CD playing through the computer. While there are bookcases in the upper studio, elsewhere on the second floor, and on the first floor, the main repository of printed lore (other than that piled here and there) is my basement library which includes thousands of reference works, maps, magazines, and works of fiction.^[6]

Illness and death

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Gygax died the morning of March 4, 2008, at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. ^[10] He was in semi-retirement,^[4] having almost suffered a heart attack after receiving incorrect medication^[6] to prevent further strokes after those on April 1 and May 4, 2004. He was diagnosed with an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm. Even while his health failed, gaming remained very much a part of his life.^[6] Gygax was still active in the gaming community and had active Q & A forums on gaming websites such as Dragonsfoot and EN World. Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Era (or Anno Domini), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Road sign For the lake in Wisconsin, see Geneva Lake. ... Heart attack redirects here. ... A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted by occlusion (an ischemic stroke- approximately 90% of strokes), by hemorrhage (a hemorrhagic stroke - less than 10% of strokes) or other causes. ... is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A plate from Grays Anatomy with yellow lines depicting the most common infrarenal location of the AAA. Abdominal aortic aneurysm, also written as AAA and often pronounced triple-A, is a localized dilatation of the abdominal aorta, that exceeds the normal diameter by more than 50%. The normal diameter... EN World is an online community which grew out of the message boards for Eric Noahs Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News (on the web from 1999-2001). ...

Awards and honors

Gary Gygax received several awards related to gaming:^[6]

• Strategists Club's "Outstanding Designer & Writer" for the creation of D&D
• Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Origins Award Hall of Fame 1980 ^[11]

• Four time winner of Games Day's "Best Games Inventor" (1979–82)
• GenCon 2007 (40th Anniversary), Premiere Guest of Honor

Gary Gygax was tied with J. R. R. Tolkien for #18 on GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming.^[12] The Origins Awards, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, are presented at the Origins International Game Expo for outstanding work in the game industry. ... Games Day is a yearly run convention sponsored by Games Workshop. ... Tolkien redirects here. ...

A strain of bacteria was named in honor of Gary Gygax, namely "Arthronema gygaxiana sp nov UTCC393".^[13]

Sync Magazine named Gary Gygax #1 on the list of "The 50 Biggest Nerds of All Time".^[14] SFX Magazine listed him as #37 on the list of the "50 Greatest SF Pioneers".^[15] In 1999 Pyramid magazine named Gary Gygax as one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons "in the realm of adventure gaming."^[16] Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Pyramid is a gaming magazine, publishing articles primarily on role-playing games, but including board games, card games, and other sorts of games. ...

Tributes

Gary Gygax was commemorated in a number of webcomics, including xkcd's comic #393 "Ultimate Game"^[17], Penny Arcade's "Bordering On The Semi-Tasteful",^[18] Dork Tower's "Thanks for the Worldbuilding Rules",^[19] Order of the Stick #536,^[20] and GU Comics' "The Journey's End".^[21] xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe,[1] a former contractor for NASA.[2] It calls itself a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. ... Penny Arcade is a webcomic and blog written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. ... Dork Tower, the comic written by John Kovalic, chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin. ... From Left to Right: Belkar, Vaarsuvius, Elan, Haley, Durkon and Roy. ... GU Comics is a single panel webcomic written, drawn, and colored by Woody Hearn. ...

Blizzard Entertainment dedicated the 2.4.0 patch to World of Warcraft, "Fury of the Sunwell", to Gary Gygax.^[22] Electronic Arts dedicated Publish 51 in Ultima Online to Gary Gygax. This included a new room in the dungeon Doom containing a special encounter and unique decorations.^[23] Turbine, Inc. included two tributes in the Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach Module 7, released June 3 2008: A new area in Delera's Graveyard containing a memorial marker and text, and a new unique item, Voice of the Master, that improves the wearer's experience awards.^[24] Blizzard Entertainment, a division of French Vivendi Games, is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ... Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. ... Ultima Online (UO) is a popular graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released on September 25, 1997, by Origin Systems. ... Turbine, Inc. ...

Job titles

• 1970–73 – Editor-in-Chief, Guidon Games (publisher of Wargaming rules and wargames)
• 1973–83 – Partner of TSR and then President of TSR Hobbies, Inc.
• 1983–85 – President, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Entertainment Corporation

Co-Producer, Dungeons & Dragons animated television show

• 1983–85 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of TSR, Inc.; also President (1985)
• 1986–88 – Chairman of the Board of Directors, New Infinities Productions, Inc.
• 1988–94 – Creator/author under contract to Omega Helios Limited
• 1995–2008 – Creator/author under contract to Trigee Enterprises Corporation
• 1999–2008 – Partner, Hekaforge Productions

Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc. ... Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series, that was a co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR. Based on TSRs Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the show was popular in the United States and ran for three seasons on CBS. The shows story editors were Hank Saroyan...

Works

Role-playing games

• Boot Hill - role-playing elements in the Wild West, with Brian Blume, 1975

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set

Boot Hill is a western role-playing game designed by Brian Blume and Gary Gygax. ... cover art This work is copyrighted. ... cover art This work is copyrighted. ...

Dungeons & Dragons

See also: Dungeons & Dragons

• Supplements:
  • Greyhawk (with Rob Kuntz)
  • Eldritch Wizardry (with Brian Blume)
  • Swords & Spells
• Accessories:
  • The Book of Marvelous Magic (with Frank Mentzer)
• Adventures:
  • B2 The Keep on the Borderlands

This article is about the role-playing game. ... Robert J. Kuntz (born September 23, 1955) is a game designer and author of role-playing game publications. ... Franklin Mentzer (born November 2, 1950), is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. ... The Keep on the Borderlands (B2) is a Dungeons & Dragons module first printed in December 1979. ...

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

See also: Dungeons & Dragons

• Rule books:
  • Player's Handbook
  • Dungeon Master's Guide
  • Monster Manual
  • Monster Manual II
• Supplements:
  • Unearthed Arcana
  • Oriental Adventures (with Dave Cook & Francois Froideval)
• Accessories:
  • Dungeon Geomorphs (3 sets)
  • Outdoor Geomorphs
  • Monster & Treasure Assortments (3 sets)

S1 Tomb of Horrors

• Adventures:
  • D1 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth
  • D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa
  • D3 Vault of the Drow
  • EX1 Dungeonland^[25]
  • EX2 The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror^[26]
  • G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
  • G2 Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
  • G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King
  • Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits (with Dave Sutherland)
  • S1 Tomb of Horrors
  • S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
  • S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
  • T1 The Village of Hommlet
  • T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (with Frank Mentzer)
  • WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun^[27]
  • WG5 Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure^[28]
  • WG6 Isle of the Ape^[29]

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Gamma World

See also: Gamma World

• GW1, Legion of Gold by Gary Gygax, Luke Gygax, and Paul Reiche III (ISBN 0-935696-61-X) TSR 1981

Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally created by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. ...

Cyborg Commando

• Cyborg Commando, New Infinities, 1987

Cyborg Commando is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) published by New Infinities, Inc in 1987 and created by Kim Mohan, Frank Mentzer and Gary Gygax, the creator of the original Dungeons & Dragons system. ...

Dangerous Journeys

See also: Dangerous Journeys

• Mythus – (with Dave Newton), Game Designers Workshop, 1992
• Mythus Magick – Book II of the MYTHUS Game (with Dave Newton), GDW, 1992
• Epic of Ærth – Companion Volume to the MYTHUS Game, GDW, 1992
• Necropolis – Adventure Scenario, GDW, 1993
• Mythus Bestiary, Ærth Animalia – (with Dave & Michele Newton), GDW, 1993
• Changeling – Weird Science Fantasy Role-Playing Game, published in part in Mythic Masters Magazine (see Periodicals)
• Unhallowed – Supernatural Horror Role-Playing Game (with Mike McCulley), GDW (manuscript, unpublished) 1992.

Dangerous Journeys is a roleplaying game created by Gary Gygax, the creator of the original Dungeons & Dragons system. ...

Lejendary Adventures

See also: Lejendary Adventure

• Rule books:
  • Lejendary Rules for All Players - Hekaforge Productions, 1999
  • Lejend Master's Lore - Hekaforge Productions, 2000
  • Beasts of Lejend - Hekaforge Productions, 2000
• World Setting sourcebooks:
  • Lejendary Earth Gazetteer - Part 1, Hekaforge Productions, 2002
  • Noble Kings & Dark Lands - Part 2, (with Chris Clark) Hekaforge Productions, 2003
  • The Mysterious Realms of Hazgar – Part 3, (with Chris Clark) Hekaforge Productions, 2005
• Adventures:
  • Living the Lejend - Campaign Setting & Expansion for the LA Essentials Boxed Set, Troll Lord Games (2005)
  • Forlorn Corners - included serially as a part of the Author’s and Collector’s Editions of the three core rules noted above (1999–2000)
  • Hall of Many Panes – Module Boxed Set with D20 stats included, Troll Lord Games 2005
• Lejendary Adventure Essentials - Primer Boxed Set for the LA RPG, Troll Lord Games, 2005

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Castles & Crusades

For Castles & Crusades, the Castle Zagyg series is a planned series of seven sourcebooks based on the Castle Greyhawk from Gygax's original campaign. For trademark reasons they are not actually published under the name of Greyhawk. Castles & Crusades is a role-playing game published by Troll Lord Games in 2004. ... Castle Greyhawk as shown on the cover of Greyhawk Ruins (TSR, Inc. ... “(TM)” redirects here. ... This article is about the role-playing game setting. ...

• Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh Troll Lord Games, 2005 (ISBN 1-931275-68-8)
• Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg: Dark Chateau (by Robert J. Kuntz) Troll Lord Games 2005 (ISBN 1-931275-69-6)
• Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg: The East Mark Gazeteer (with Jeffrey P. Talanian) Troll Lord Games, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-929474-98-1)

Robert J. Kuntz (born September 23, 1955) is a game designer and author of role-playing game publications. ...

Generic d20 System

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• A Challenge of Arms - (Chris Clark with Gary Gygax) generic adventure module, Inner City Game Designs, 1999
• Ritual of the Golden Eyes - (Chris Clark with Gary Gygax) generic adventure module, Inner City Game Designs, 2000
• The Weyland Smith Catalog - ("Joke" Magic Items), short version, Hekaforge Productions, 1999
• Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Series from Troll Lord Games. Volumes IV, V, VI, VII are edited by Gygax.
  • Volume I Gary Gygax's The Canting Crew, explores the underworld of city life, "Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Volume II"
  • Volume II Gary Gygax's World Builder, a collection of organized definitions, lists, tables and charts, (with Dan Cross) – 2003
  • Volume III Gary Gygax's Living Fantasy, Everyday Life, – 2003
  • Volume IV Gary Gygax's Book of Names by Malcolm Bowers
  • Volume V Gary Gygax's Insidiae by Dan Cross 2004
  • Volume VI Gary Gygax's Nation Builder, by Michael J. Varhola – 2005
  • Volume VII Gary Gygax's Cosmos Builder, by Richard T. Balsley – 2006

Michael J. Varhola is an author of numerous books, games, and articles, as well as the founder of game development company and manufacturer Skirmisher Publishing LLC [1]. Non-fiction books Varhola has authored or co-authored include The Writers Complete Fantasy Reference (Writers Digest Books, 2000) with Terry Brooks...

Non-RPG games

Rules for miniatures/table top battle games

• Cavaliers and Roundheads (English Civil War, with Jeff Perren)
• Chainmail (Medieval and Fantasy, with Jeff Perren)
• Classic Warfare (Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD)
• Don't Give Up The Ship! (Sailing Ship Battles c. 1700 to 1815, with Dave Arneson and Mike Carr)
• Tractics (WWII to c. 1965, with Mike Reese & Leon Tucker)
• Foreword to the 2004 Skirmisher Publishing LLC edition of H.G. Wells' Little Wars

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Board games

• Alexander the Great (Ancient, the Battle of Arbela) – Guidon Games and reprinted by Avalon Hill
• Alexander's Other Battles – Panzerfaust Publishing, 1972 – a Supplementary Kit For The Guidon Game Alexander the Great
• Baku (WW II, Extension of Avalon Hill's Stalingrad board wargame), Panzerfaust Publications
• Crusader (Medieval, Battle of Ascalon) – Panzerfaust Publications
• Dunkirk (World War II) – Guidon Games
• Little Big Horn (Western) – TSR Hobbies, Inc.
• Dungeon! - TSR Hobbies, Inc.

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Chess variants

• Another of Gary Gygax's creations was Dragon chess, a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant, published in Dragon Magazine #100 (August 1985). It is played on three 8x12 boards stacked on top of each other - the top board represents the sky, the middle is the ground, and the bottom is the underworld. The pieces are characters and monsters inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons setting: King, Mage, Paladin, Cleric, Dragon, Griffin, Oliphant, Hero, Thief, Elemental, Basilisk, Unicorn, Dwarf, Sylph and Warrior.
• Fidchell^[30] – Not to be confused with the historic board game of fidchell (various spellings) from Ireland.

Dragon chess is a three-dimensional fantasy chess variant created by Gary Gygax. ... A chess variant is a game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect. ... For other uses, see Underworld (disambiguation). ... Fidchell (also called fidhcheall or fithchill) is a board game from Early Ireland which is often compared to, but distinct from, Chess. ...

Literature

Fantasy novels

Saga of Old City by Gary Gygax (TSR, 1985); Cover art by Clyde Caldwell

• Greyhawk Adventures Series of Novels (TSR, Inc., featuring Gord the Rogue)
  • Saga of Old City (1985)
  • Artifact of Evil (1986)

• Gord the Rogue Adventures (from New Infinities Productions, Inc., also published in Italian)
  • Sea of Death (1987)
  • Night Arrant (1987) – a collection of short stories
  • City of Hawks (1987)
  • Come Endless Darkness (1988)
  • Dance of Demons (1988)

• released under publisher Penguin/Roc
  • The Anubis Murders (1992)
  • The Samarkand Solution (1993)
  • Death in Delhi (1993)

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Miscellaneous books and short stories

• Sagard the Barbarian Books (HEROES CHALLENGE Gamebook Series, co-author Flint Dille (with assistance from Ernie Gygax) - from Archway/Pocket books):

The Ice Dragon

The Green Hydra

The Crimson Sea

The Fire Demon

• Role-Playing Mastery - instructional book, Perigee/Putnam (trade paperback bestseller)
• Master of the Game - sequel to Role-Playing Mastery from Perigee/Putnam
• "At Moonset Blackcat Comes" (Fantasy short story featuring Gord the Rogue appearing in Dragon #100)
• "Pay Tribute" (Science Fiction short story in The Fleet anthology)
• "Battle off Deadstar" (Science Fiction short story in Fleet Breakthrough anthology)
• "Celebration of Celene" (Fantasy short story published in Michael Moorcock’s Elric, Tales of the White Wolf anthology) - White Wolf, Inc., 1994
• "Duty" (Fantasy short story in Excalibur, anthology) – Warner Books, 1995
• "Get on Board the D Train" (Horror short story in Dante’s Disciples anthology) – White Wolf, Inc., 1996
• Evening Odds" (Fantasy short story with Gord the Rogue sharing Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champions universe) – White Wolf, Inc., 1997

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Periodicals

• The Crusader – magazine, column on the creation of the D&D game beginning 2005
• Dragon Magazine - author 1976 to 1985, columnist 1999 to 2004, and publisher 1978 to 1981.^[31]
• Journeys Journal (GDW) - contributor in each of six issues published through 1993
• Lejends (Total Reality Studios) – magazine, major contributor, 2001 to 2003
• Mythic Masters (Trigee) - magazine, primary author of entire 64-page magazine for each of six issues published through 1994
• The Strategic Review (Tactical Studies Rules) – newsletter, primary author of entire magazine for each of the initial four issues, and a major contributor to the balance of all issues until Dragon came into print.
• La Vivandiere (Palikar Publications) – defunct wargaming magazine, contributing author (1974), significant contributions include "Fantasy Wargaming and the Influence of J.R.R. Tolkien", in which he defends D&D's inclusion of non-Tolkien fantasy into the game.

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Notes and references

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• E. Gary Gygax at the Internet Movie Database
• Interviews and Q&As
  • Seth Schiesel (February 27, 2006). "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace". New York Times. 
  • An Interview with Gary Gygax" by Christopher Smith on the Lejendary Adventure website.
  • Scott Lynch (May 1, 2001). "Interview with Gary Gygax". RPGnet.
  • Interview: Gary Gygax" at Kittenpants.org
  • Q&A with Gary Gygax at Dragonsfoot
  • The Ultimate Interview with Gary Gygax at thekyngdoms.com
  • Dungeons & Dragons Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away; Interview on BoingBoing Gadgets

• Obituaries
  • The Times Obituary, March 5, 2008
  • The Guardian Obituary, March 7, 2008 (Note the similarity to this Wikipedia entry)
  • Associated Press (March 4, 2008). "Dungeons & Dragons Co - Creator Dies at 69". New York Times. 
  • WKBT Channel 8 Local notice of his death
  • The Economist, March 13 2008
  • Obituary and notice of release of Gygax's last novel: Infernal Sorceress, July 2, 2008