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Gary Gygax, born Ernest Gary Gygax on July 27, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, was an American writer, novelist, publisher, and game designer. He began his work period in 1971 and wrote in English. His notable works include Dungeons & Dragons, Oriental Adventures, Scourge of the Slavelords, The Keep on the Borderlands, and Sefer ha-kelalim le-shaliṭ ha-mavokh. He was influenced by Jack Vance and worked within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Gygax died on March 4, 2008, in Lake Geneva due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which was classified as natural causes. He was a male human who spoke American English. His contributions spanned roles in production and writing, with a recorded work count of 151.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- July 27, 1938
- Died
- March 4, 2008
- Works
- 151
Top works
- Oriental Adventures
- Scourge of the Slavelords
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Dungeons & Dragons
- The Keep on the Borderlands
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Film & TV
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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernest
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Lake Geneva
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Notable work
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Genre
- science fiction
- Image
- Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gary Gygax
- date of birth
- 1938-07-27
- date of death
- 2008-03-04
- cause of death
- abdominal aortic aneurysm
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Gary Gygax
- birth name
- Ernest Gary Gygax
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
- name in native language
- Gary Gygax
- writing language
- English language
- influenced by
- Jack Vance
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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.
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