Not so Gary Gygax ... plastic figures fought kitchen-table skirmishes. At first those battles, set chiefly in the Middle Ages, were realistic. Then Gygax introduced elves and wizards.

Gary Gygax was perfectly equipped to bring this fantastic world to basements and dining-room tables all over the world. As a boy he was fascinated by games of all sorts, from pinochle to chess.

Witwer has just written a biography of Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons ... Actually being in a room physically sitting at a table with nothing but pencils and paper and dice.

Many surpassed Gygax's efforts. But Gary got there first. Born in Chicago in 1958, Gygax created D & D during a flagging all-night table-top session. Spurred on by an ecstatic word-of-mouth ...

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and is widely seen as the father of the role-playing games, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69. He had been ...