Gary Gygax

American game designer and author (1938–2008)

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

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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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Article

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.