Gary Gygax, who died on Tuesday aged 69, invented Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), among the first, and certainly the most influential, of the role-playing games which had their roots in fantasy ...

When Gary Gygax died, the gaming community lost an icon, its founding genius.At least that’s the story being told in countless obituaries this past week by writers as eager to praise Gygax as ...

Today (July 27) is the birthday of Gary Gygax, who would have been 73 this year had he not passed from this earth in 2008 to dance forever on the astral plane, which (according to the DM’s Guide ...

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.

Community funding and publishing platform Fig announced Tuesday it’s teaming up with the Gygax Trust to develop video games based on unpublished intellectual property from Gary Gygax, the co ...

Gary Gygax, who died on Tuesday aged 69, invented Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), among the first, and certainly the most influential, of the role-playing games which had their roots in fantasy ...

Ernest Gary Gygax was born in Chicago in 1938, the son of a German-speaking Swiss immigrant and an American mother. He became an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy novels.

In 1966, Gary Gygax, an insurance underwriter living in Lake Geneva, Wis., placed a notice in the “Opponents Wanted” section of the Avalon Hill General, the in-house promotional magazine of ...

On March 4, Gary Gygax died at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, after suffering two strokes in 2004 and being diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was 69.

Contrary to what Gary Gygax, the most famous of its inventors, would later have people believe, the creation of the first role-playing game was not a one-man affair.