Gary Gygax

Person · Open Library

Born

July 27, 1938

Died

March 4, 2008

Works

151

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Film & TV

Production · Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Ernest Gary Gygax (/ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GHY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Gygax, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

• Futurama: Bender's Game — Gary Gygax (voice)2008
• Code Monkeys — Gary Gygax (voice)2007
• Über Goober — Himself2004
• Let the Games Begin — Self2001
• Futurama — Gary Gygax (voice)1999

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

11

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 63,294x

2. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,556x

3. Dynamic capabilities and strategic management

   · 1997 · cited 19,798x

4. <i>MolProbity</i>: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography

   · 2009 · cited 13,847x

5. WebLogo: A Sequence Logo Generator: Figure 1

   · 2004 · cited 11,861x

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Quotes

• “The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.”
• “One of the things stressed in the original game of D&D was the importance of recording game time with respect to each and every player character in a campaign. In AD&D it is emphasized even more: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.”
• “Hello Fry, it's a ... *[stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.”
• “One more thing: don’t spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!”
• “Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.”
• “The idea that a game is anything more than a game… You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.”

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Key facts

Born

Ernest Gary Gygax , ( 1938-07-27 ) July 27, 1938 , 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

1971–2008

Genre

Role-playing games , fantasy , wargames

Spouse

Mary Jo Powell ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1983 ) ​ Gail Carpenter ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1987 ) ​

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