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Gygax at Indy 2007BornErnest Gary Gygax( 1938-07-27)July 27, 1938, U.S.DiedMarch 4, 2008 (2008-03-04) (aged 69), U.S.Nickname'Father of role-playing games'OccupationWriter, game designerPeriod1971–2008Genre,SpouseMary Jo Powell (m. 1983)Gail Carpenter (August 15, 1987; his death)SignatureErnest Gary Gygax (; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American and author best known for co-creating the pioneering ( D&D) with.In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the. In 1971, he helped develop, a miniatures wargame based on warfare. He co-founded the company (TSR, Inc.) with childhood friend in 1973. The following year, he and Arneson created D&D, which expanded on Gygax's Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. In the same year, he founded, a magazine based around the new game.
In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called. Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged called 'modules' that gave a person running a D&D game (the ') a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario. In 1983, he worked to license the D&D product line into the successful.After leaving TSR in 1986 over issues with its new majority owner, Gygax continued to create role-playing game titles independently, beginning with the multi-genre in 1992. He designed another gaming system called, released in 1999. In 2005, Gygax was involved in the role-playing game, which was conceived as a hybrid between the third edition of D&D and the original version of the game conceived by Gygax.Gygax was married twice and had six children. In 2004, Gygax suffered two strokes, narrowly avoided a subsequent heart attack, was then diagnosed with an, and died in March 2008.
Contents.Early life and inspiration Gygax was born in Chicago, the son of Almina Emelie 'Posey' (Burdick) and immigrant and former violinist Ernst Gygax. He was named Ernest after his father, but he was commonly known as Gary, the middle name given to him by his mother after the actor.: 16 The family lived on Kenmore Avenue, close enough to that he could hear the roar of the crowds watching the play.: 15 At age 7, he became a member of a small group of friends who called themselves the 'Kenmore Pirates'. In 1946, after the Kenmore Pirates were involved in a fracas with another gang of boys, his father decided to move the family to Posey's family home in, where Posey's family had settled in the early 19th century, and where Gary's grandparents still lived.In this new setting, Gygax soon made friends with several of his peers, including and Mary Jo Powell. During his childhood and teen years, he developed a love of games and an appreciation for fantasy and science fiction literature. When he was five, he played card games such as and then board games such as. At the age of ten, he and his friends played the sort of make-believe games that eventually came to be called ' with one of them acting as a referee. His father introduced him to science fiction and fantasy through.
His interest in games, combined with an appreciation of history, eventually led Gygax to begin playing in 1953 with his best friend.In 1967, Gygax co-founded the (IFW) with Bill Speer and Scott Duncan. The IFW grew rapidly, especially by assimilating several pre-existing wargaming clubs, and aimed to promote interest in wargames of all periods.
It provided a forum for wargamers, via its newsletters and societies, which enabled them to form local groups and share rules. In 1967, Gygax organized a 20-person gaming meet in the basement of his home; this event would later be referred to as 'Gen Con 0'. In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered for US$50 (equivalent to $360 in 2018) to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con for short.
Gen Con is now one of North America's largest annual hobby-game gatherings. Gygax met, the future co-creator of D&D, at the second Gen Con in August 1969.I'm very fond of the Medieval period, the Dark Ages in particular.
We started playing in the period because I had found appropriate miniatures. I started devising rules where what the plastic figure was wearing was what he had. If he had a shield and no armor, then he just has a shield. Shields and half-armor = half-armor rules; full-armor figure = full armor rules.
I did rules for weapons as well. — Gary GygaxTogether with Don Kaye, Mike Reese, and Leon Tucker, Gygax created a military miniatures society called (LGTSA) in 1970, with its first headquarters in Gygax's basement. Shortly thereafter in 1970, Robert Kuntz and Gygax founded the of the IFW.Late in October 1970, Gygax lost his job at the insurance company after almost nine years. Unemployed and now with a family of five children — Ernest ('Ernie'), Lucion ('Luke'), Heidi, Cindy, and Elise —he tried to use his enthusiasm for games to make a living by designing board games for commercial sale. This clearly proved to be unsustainable when he only grossed $882 in 1971 (equivalent to $5,457 in 2018).: 84 He began shoes in his basement, which provided him with a steady income and gave him more time for pursuing his interest in game development. In 1971, he began doing some editing work at, a publisher of, for which he produced the board games. Early that same year, Gygax published, a miniatures wargame that simulated medieval-era tactical combat, which he had originally written with hobby-shop owner.
The Chainmail medieval miniatures rules were originally published in the Castle & Crusade Society's fanzine The Domesday Book. Guidon Games hired Gygax to produce a 'Wargaming with Miniatures' series of games, and a new edition of Chainmail (1971) was the first book in the series.: 6 The first edition of Chainmail included a fantasy supplement to the rules. These comprised a system for warriors, wizards, and various monsters of non-human races drawn from the works of and other sources. For a small publisher like Guidon Games, Chainmail was relatively successful, selling 100 copies per month.: 86Gygax also collaborated on with Mike Reese & Leon Tucker, his contribution being the change to a 20-sided spinner or a coffee can with 20 numbered poker chips (or eventually 20-sided dice) to decide combat resolutions instead of the standard 6-sided dice.: 87 He also collaborated with Dave Arneson on the Napoleonic naval wargameDave Arneson adopted the Chainmail rules for his fantasy campaign.
While visiting Lake Geneva in November 1972, Arneson ran his fantasy game using the new rules, and Gygax immediately saw the potential of role-playing games. Gygax and Arneson immediately started to collaborate on creating 'The Fantasy Game', the role-playing game which would evolve into Dungeons & Dragons.Two weeks after Arneson's Blackmoor demonstration, Gygax had produced a 50-page set of rules, and was ready to try it on his two oldest children, Ernie and Elise, in a setting he called 'Greyhawk'. This group rapidly expanded to include Don Kaye, Rob Kuntz and eventually a large circle of players. Gygax sent the 50 pages of rules to his wargaming contacts and asked them to playtest the new game. Gygax and Arneson continued to trade notes about their respective campaigns, calling the amalgamation of Blackmoor and Greyhawk 'The Great Kingdom'.
This collaboration gradually petered out as Gygax and Arneson realized their visions for the new game were diverging.: 100Based on the feedback he received, Gygax created a 150-page revision of the rules by mid-1973. Several aspects of the system governing magic in the game were inspired by stories of fantasy author (notably the fact that magic-users in the game forget the spells that they have learned immediately upon casting them, and must re-study them in order to cast them again), and the system as a whole drew upon the work of authors such as, and others. He asked Guidon Games to publish it,: 7 but the 3-volume rule set in a labeled box was beyond the scope of the small publisher.
Gygax attempted to pitch the game to Avalon Hill, but the largest company in wargaming did not understand the new concept of role-playing, and turned down his offer.By 1974, Gygax's Greyhawk group, which had started off with himself, Ernie Gygax, Don Kaye, Rob Kuntz, and, had grown to over 20 people, with Rob Kuntz becoming the co-dungeon-master so that each of them could referee groups of only a dozen players.: 7 TSR Gygax left Guidon Games in 1973 and in October, with Don Kaye as a partner, founded, later known as TSR, Inc. The two men each invested US$1,000 in the venture—Kaye borrowed his share on his life insurance policy—in order to finance the start-up of TSR.
This was still not enough to print their new role-playing game, so they tried to raise money by immediately publishing. But sales were poor, and they still did not have enough capital to publish Dungeons & Dragons. Worried that the other playtesters and wargamers now familiar with Gygax's rules would bring a similar product to the market first, the two accepted an offer in December 1973 by game playing acquaintance to invest $2,000 in TSR to become an equal one-third partner. (Gygax accepted Blume's offer right away. Kaye was less enthusiastic, and after a week to consider the offer, he questioned Blume closely before acquiescing.): 110 Blume's investment finally brought the financing that enabled them to publish D&D.
Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games including (Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD), and.The first commercial version of D&D was released by TSR in January 1974 as a. A hand-assembled print run of 1,000 copies, put together in Gygax's home, sold out in less than a year.At the end of 1974, with sales of D&D skyrocketing, the future looked bright for Gygax and Kaye, who were only 36. However, in January 1975, Kaye unexpectedly died of a heart attack. He had not made any specific provision in his will regarding his one-third share of the company, simply leaving his entire estate to his wife Donna. Although she had worked briefly for TSR as an accountant, she had not shared her husband's enthusiasm for gaming, and made it clear that she would not be having anything to do with managing the company.
Gygax characterized her as 'less than personable. After Don died she dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch. It would have been impossible to manage a business with her involved as a partner.'
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After Kaye's death, TSR was forced to relocate from Kaye's dining room to Gygax's basement.: 7 In July 1975, Gygax and Blume reorganized their company from a partnership to a corporation called TSR Hobbies. Gygax owned 150 shares, Blume owned the other 100 shares, and both had the option to buy up to 700 shares at any time in the future. But TSR Hobbies had nothing to publish—D&D was still owned by the three-way partnership of TSR, and neither Gygax nor Blume had the money to buy out the shares owned by Kaye's wife. Blume persuaded a reluctant Gygax to allow his father, Melvin Blume, to buy Donna's shares, and those were converted to 200 shares in TSR Hobbies.
In addition, Brian bought another 140 shares.: 117 These purchases reduced Gygax from the majority shareholder in control of the company to minority shareholder; he effectively became the Blumes' employee.: 8Gygax wrote the supplements, and for the original D&D game. With Brian Blume, Gygax also designed the -oriented role-playing game. In the same year, Gygax created the magazine with himself as editor. But wanting a more industry-wide periodical, he hired as TSR's first employee to change this magazine to the fantasy periodical, with Gygax as writer, columnist, and publisher (from 1978 to 1981). The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: 'When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide.
At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.' In 1976, TSR moved out of Gygax's house into its first professional home, known as 'The Dungeon Hobby Shop'.: 8 Dave Arneson was hired as part of the creative staff, but was let go after only ten months, another sign that Gygax and Arneson still had creative differences over D&D.: 129 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Hollywood The, released in 1977, was an introductory version of the original D&D geared towards new players and edited. In the same year, TSR Hobbies released a completely new and complex version of D&D, ( AD&D). The, released later that year, became the first supplemental rule book of the new system, and many more followed. The AD&D rules were not fully compatible with those of the D&D Basic Set and as a result, D&D and AD&D became distinct product lines.: 135 Splitting the game lines created a further rift between Gygax and Arneson; although Arneson received a 10% royalty on sales of all D&D products, Gygax refused to pay him royalties on AD&D books, claiming it was a new and different property. In 1979, Arneson filed a lawsuit against TSR; it was eventually settled in March 1981 with the agreement that Arneson would receive a 2.5% royalty on all AD&D products, giving him a very comfortable six-figure annual income for the next decade.: 139Gygax wrote the AD&D hardcovers, Monster Manual,. Gygax also wrote or co-wrote numerous AD&D and basic D&D, including, and all seven of the modules later combined into.
In 1980, Gygax's long-time campaign setting of was published in the form of the folio, which was expanded in 1983 into the boxed set. Sales of the D&D game reached US$8.5 million in 1980. Gygax also provided assistance on the science fantasy role-playing game in 1981 and co-authored the Gamma World adventure.In 1979, a student, allegedly disappeared into the school's steam tunnels while playing a live-action version of D&D. In fact, Egbert was discovered in Louisiana several weeks later,: 145 but negative mainstream media attention focused on D&D as the cause. In 1982, 's son killed himself. Blaming D&D for her son's suicide, Pulling formed an organization named B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons) to attack the game and the company that produced it.
Gygax defended the game on a segment of, which aired in 1985. When death threats started arriving at the TSR office, Gygax hired a bodyguard.
Despite the negative publicity, or perhaps because of it, TSR's annual D&D sales increased in 1982 to US$16 million, and in January 1983, speculated that D&D might become 'the great game of the 1980s' in the same manner that was emblematic of the.Brian Blume persuaded Gygax to allow Brian's brother Kevin to purchase Melvin Blume's shares. This gave the Blume brothers a controlling interest, and by 1981, Gygax and the Blumes were increasingly at loggerheads over management of the company. Gygax's frustrations at work, and increased prosperity from his generous royalty cheques brought a number of changes to his personal life. He and Mary Jo had been active members of the local, but others in the congregation already felt uneasy about Gygax's smoking and drinking; his connection to the 'satanic' game of D&D caused enough friction that the Gygaxes finally disassociated themselves from Jehovah's Witnesses.: 156 Mary Jo, continuing to resent the amount of time her husband spent 'playing games', had begun to drink excessively, and the couple argued frequently. Gygax, who had started smoking marijuana when he lost his insurance job in 1970, started to use cocaine, and had a number of extramarital affairs.
Finally in 1983, the two had an acrimonious divorce.: 187At the same time, the Blumes, wanting to get Gygax out of Lake Geneva so they could manage the company without his 'interference', split TSR Hobbies into TSR, Inc., and TSR Entertainment, Inc. Gygax became the President of TSR Entertainment, Inc., and the Blumes sent him to Hollywood to develop TV and movie opportunities.: 13 He became co-producer of the licensed for, which led its time slot for two years.Gygax, newly single, took advantage of his time on the West Coast, renting an immense mansion, increasing his cocaine use, and spending time with several young starlets.: 168 Leaving TSR Because he was occupied with getting a movie off the ground in Hollywood, Gygax had to leave the day-to-day operations of TSR to Kevin and Brian Blume. In 1984, after months of negotiation, he reached an agreement with to star in a D&D movie, and to act as producer and director.
But almost at the same time, he received word that back in Lake Geneva, TSR had run into severe financial difficulties and Kevin Blume was shopping the company for US$6 million.: 171Gygax immediately discarded his movie ambitions—his D&D movie would never be made—and flew back to Lake Geneva. There, he discovered to his shock that although industry leader TSR was grossing US$30 million, it was barely breaking even;: 171 it was in fact US$1.5 million in debt and teetering on the edge of insolvency. After investigating the reasons why, Gygax brought his findings to the five other company directors. (Since 1982, TSR Inc. Had conformed to the recommendations of the by adding three 'outside' directors to the board, increasing its size to six.) Gygax charged that the financial crisis was due to mismanagement by Kevin Blume: excess inventory, overstaffing, too many company cars, and some questionable (and expensive) projects such as dredging up a 19th century shipwreck.: 172 Gygax demanded that Kevin Blume be removed as company president, and the three outside directors agreed with him.
However, the board still believed the financial problems were terminal and the company needed to be sold. In an effort to stay in control, in March 1985, Gygax exercised his 700-share stock option, giving him just over 50% control. He appointed himself president and CEO, and rather than selling the company, he took steps to produce new revenue generating products. To that end, he contacted Dave Arneson with a view to produce some Blackmoor material.
He also bet heavily on a new AD&D book, a compilation of material culled from Dragon magazine articles. And he quickly wrote a novel set in his Greyhawk setting, featuring a protagonist called Gord the Rogue. In order to bring some financial stability to TSR, he hired a company manager,. When Unearthed Arcana was released in July, Gygax's bet paid off, as the new book sold 90,000 copies in the first month.
His novel also sold well, and he immediately published a sequel,. The financial crisis had been averted, but Gygax had paved the way for his own downfall. In October 1985, the new manager, Lorraine Williams, revealed that she had purchased all of the shares of Kevin and Brian Blume—after Brian had triggered his own 700-share option. Williams was now the majority shareholder, and replaced Gygax as president and CEO. She also made it clear that Gygax would be making no further creative contributions to TSR. Several of his projects were immediately shelved and never published.
Gygax took TSR to court in a bid to block the Blumes' sale of their shares to Williams, but he lost.Sales of D&D reached US$29 million in 1985, but Gygax, seeing his future at TSR as untenable, resigned all positions with TSR, Inc. In October 1986, and settled his disputes with TSR in December 1986.
By the terms of his settlement with TSR, Gygax kept the rights to Gord the Rogue as well as all D&D characters whose names were anagrams or plays on his own name (for example, Yrag and Zagyg). However, he lost the rights to all his other work, including the World of Greyhawk and the names of all the characters he had ever used in TSR material, such as, and.After TSR 1985–1989: New Infinities Productions, Inc. Immediately after leaving TSR, Gygax was approached by a wargaming acquaintance, Forrest Baker, who had done some consulting work for TSR in 1983 and 1984.: 188 Gygax, who was tired of company management, was simply looking for some way to market more of his Gord the Rogue novels, but Baker had a vision for a new gaming company. He promised that he would handle the business end, while Gygax would handle the creative projects.
Baker also guaranteed that, using Gygax's name, he would be able to bring in one to two million dollars of investment.: 188 Gygax decided this was a good opportunity, and in October 1986, Inc. (NIPI) was publicly announced.: 237 To help him with the creative work, Gygax poached and Dragon magazine editor from TSR.
But before a single product was released, Forrest Baker left NIPI when his promised outside investment of one to two million dollars failed to materialize.: 237Against his will, Gygax was back in charge again; he immediately looked for a quick product to get NIPI off the ground. He had retained the rights to Gord the Rogue as part of his severance agreement with TSR, so he licensed Greyhawk from TSR and started writing new novels beginning with Sea of Death (1987); sales were brisk, and Gygax's Gord the Rogue novels ended up keeping New Infinities in business.: 237Gygax brought in from to manage the company, then worked with Mohan and Mentzer on a science fiction-themed RPG, which was published in 1987.: 237 However, sales of the new game were not brisk: the game received overwhelmingly negative reception. NIPI was still dependent on Gord the Rogue.Mentzer and Mohan also wrote a series of generic RPG adventures called Gary Gygax Presents Fantasy Master. They also began working on a third line of products, which began with an adventure written by Mentzer called The Convert (1987); Mentzer had written the adventure as an RPGA tournament for D&D, but TSR was not interested in publishing it. Mentzer got verbal permission to publish it with New Infinities, but since the permission was not in writing TSR filed an injunction to prevent the adventure's sale, although the injunction was later lifted.: 238: 190 The legal costs further drained NIPI of capital.During all of this drama, Gygax became a father again.
Over the past year, he had formed a romantic relationship with Gail Carpenter, his former assistant at TSR. In November 1986, she gave birth to Gygax's sixth child, Alex. Biographer Michael Witwer believes the birth of Alex forced Gygax to reconsider the equation of work, gaming and family that, up until this time, had been dominated by work and gaming.
'Gary, keenly aware that he had made mistakes as a father, and husband in the past, was determined not to make them again. Gary was also a realist, and knew what good fatherhood would demand, especially at his age.' : 189 On August 15, 1987, on what would have been his parents' 50th wedding anniversary, Gygax married Gail Carpenter.During 1987 and 1988, Gygax worked with on the books, as well as and its sequel, Master of the Game.: 191 He also wrote two more Gord the Rogue novels, City of Hawks (1987), and Come Endless Darkness (1988). However, by 1988, TSR had rewritten the setting for the world of Greyhawk, and Gygax was not happy with the new direction in which TSR was taking 'his' creation.
In a literary declaration that his old world was dead, and wanting to make a clean break with all things Greyhawk, Gygax destroyed his version of in the final Gord the Rogue novel, Dance of Demons.With the Gord the Rogue novels finished, NIPI's main source of steady income dried up. The company needed a new product. Gygax announced in 1988 in a company newsletter that he and Rob Kuntz, his co-Dungeon Master during the early days of the Greyhawk campaign, were working as a team again. Gary Gygax at ModCon Game Fair in 1999,. His t-shirt advertises the third edition of D&D, which was to be released the following year.In 1995, Gygax began work on a new computer role-playing game called. In contrast to the rules-heavy Dangerous Journeys, this new system was a return to simple and basic rules. Although he was not able to successfully release a Lejendary Adventures computer game, Gygax decided to instead publish it as a tabletop game.: 380Meanwhile, in 1996 the games industry was rocked by the news that TSR had run into insoluble financial problems and had been bought.
Gary Gygax at in 2003. He is sitting in the booth with.During his time with TSR, Gygax had often mentioned the mysterious Castle Greyhawk which formed the centre of his own home campaign. But despite all of his written output over the previous 30 years, Gygax had never published details of the castle. In 2003, Gygax announced that he was again partnering with to publish the original and previously unpublished details of and the in 6 volumes, although the project would use the rules for rather than D&D.
As Gygax wrote in an on-line forum: 'I have laid out a new schematic of castle and dungeon levels based on both my original design of 13 levels plus side adjuncts, and the 'New Greyhawk Castle' that resulted when Rob and I combined our efforts and added a lot of new levels too. From that Rob will draft the level plans for the newest version of the work. Meantime, I am collecting all the most salient feature, encounters, tricks, traps, etc. For inclusion on the various levels. So the end result will be what is essentially the best of our old work in a coherent presentation usable by all DMs, the material having all the known and yet to be discussed features of the original work that are outstanding.
Since, which had bought TSR in 1997, still owned the rights to the name 'Greyhawk', Gygax changed the name of Castle Greyhawk to 'Castle Zagyg', a reverse homophone of his own name, and also changed the name of the nearby city to 'Yggsburgh', a play on his initials 'E.G.G.' : 208The scale of the project was enormous: By the time Gygax and Kuntz had stopped working on their original home campaign, the castle dungeons had encompassed 50 levels of cunningly complex passages with thousands of rooms and traps.
This, plus plans for the city of Yggsburgh and encounter areas outside the castle and city, would clearly be too much to fit into the proposed 6 volumes. Gygax decided he would compress the castle dungeons into 13 levels, the size of his original Castle Greyhawk in 1973 by amalgamating the best of what could be gleaned from binders and boxes of old notes.
However, neither Gygax nor Kuntz had kept careful or comprehensive plans. Because they had often made up details of play sessions on the spot, they usually just scribbled a quick map as they played, with cursory notes about monsters, treasures, and traps. These sketchy maps had contained just enough detail that the two could ensure their independent work would dovetail. All of these old notes now had to be deciphered, 25-year-old memories dredged up as to what had happened in each room, and a decision made whether to keep or discard each new piece. Recreating the city too would be a challenge.
Although Gygax still had his old maps of the original city, all of his previously published work on the city was owned by WotC, so he would have to create most of the city from scratch while still maintaining the 'look and feel' of his original.Due to creative differences, Kuntz backed out of the project, but created an adventure module that would be published at the same time as Gygax's first book. Gygax continued to painstakingly put Castle Zagyg together on his own, but even this slow and laborious process came to a complete halt when Gygax suffered a serious stroke in April 2004 and then another one a few weeks later.: 211 Although he returned to his keyboard after a seven-month convalescence, his output was reduced from 14-hour work days to only one or two hours per day.
Finally in 2005, Castle Zagyg Part I: Yggsburgh, the first book in the six-book series, appeared.: 381 Later that year, Troll Lord Games also published Castle Zagyg: Dark Chateau (2005), the adventure module written for the Yggsburgh setting by Rob Kuntz.: 381 Jeff Talanian helped with the creation of the dungeon, eventually resulting in publication of the limited edition CZ9: The East Marks Gazetteer (2007).: 381That same year, Gygax was diagnosed with a potentially deadly. Doctors concurred that surgery was needed, but their estimates of success varied from 50% to 90%.
With no firm medical consensus, Gygax came to believe that he would likely die on the operating table; he refused to consider surgery, although he realized that a rupture of the aneurysm – likely inevitable – would be fatal.: 216 In one concession to his condition, he switched from cigarettes, which he had smoked since high school, to cigars.: 212It wasn't until 2008 that Gygax was able to finish the second volume of six volumes, Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works, which described details of the castle above ground. The next two volumes were supposed to detail the dungeons beneath Castle Zagyg.
However, before they could be written, Gygax died in March 2008. Three months after his death, Gygax Games – a new company formed by Gary's widow, Gail – withdrew all of the Gygax licenses from Troll Lord,: 382 and also from Hekaforge.: 381 Personal life From an early age, Gygax hunted and was a target-shooter with both bow and gun. He was also an avid gun collector, and at various times owned a variety of rifles, shotguns, and handguns.
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At the end of the cycle, Oerth bites the bullet. Was this your way of saying that Greyhawk is dead and that fans should turn away from TSR's version with disdain?' Gygax: 'More my way of saying that since T$R had killed the setting with trash releases, it was time to wipe out the shame by obliterating the setting.' November 19, 2004. Retrieved March 15, 2009. Sacco, Ciro Alessandro. Archived from on December 23, 2011.
Retrieved October 24, 2008. Williams, Drew (October 9, 1992). Retrieved December 19, 2008. (Registration required). Gygax: 'When the new fantasy roleplaying game was introduced at the GTS, a lawsuit was filed by TSR, they claiming it violated the copyright of AD&D. Quite a stretch that, but only a judge intimately familiar with RPGs would know that and dismiss it.
So what followed was a long period of discovery and depositions that ran up a huge lawyers' bill—far more on the TSR end than on ours, four to one is likely. Eventually the suit was settled. TSR paid us a very large sum and they got all the rights to the DJ system and Mythus.
I suggested to TSR (Lorraine Williams) that the next time I wrote a new RPG they just offer me US$1 million for the rights to it, thus saving at least that much money.' January 4, 2004. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
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Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'The whole of the combined material Rob and I put together would be far too large for publication, 50 levels or so. What I have done is gone back to my original design of more modest scope, because I doubt the work will need to accommodate groups of 20 PCs delving on a daily basis.'
November 2, 2003. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
Gygax: '.the original upper and lower parts of Castle Greyhawk changed many times over the years they were in active use. What we will do is to take the best of the lot and put that into a detailed format usable by anyone.'
November 2, 2003. Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'I did indeed create details for the PC party on the spot, adding whatever seemed appropriate, and as Rob played and learned from me, he did the same, and when we were actively co-DMing we could often create some really exciting material on the spot, if you will.' December 15, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'As Rob learned from me, he too DMed by the proverbial seat of the pants method. A single line of notes for an encounter was sufficient for either of us to detail a lengthy description, action, dialog, tricks or traps, and all the rest.'
November 2, 2003. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
Gygax: 'What our challenge is going to be is to cull the extraneous, take the best, and re-create the details we made up on the spot. Of course the most famous things will be there, along with most of the best parts that are not well-known through story and word of mouth.' November 2, 2003. Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'Yggsburgh was a pain in the rump to write because I wanted to include as much detail as possible for the GM interested in using it as a campaign base. So there are sections on history, costume, monetary system and economy of the area, and complete descriptions of the town, its main locations, and the outstanding geographical areas all with encounters or suggestions for same.' February 18, 2005.
Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'Rob has finished his add on module, but I have not been up to doing the work needed to create the upper works of the castle proper, let alone the dungeon levels below them.' February 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
Gygax: 'the problem is that I tire out after about an hour.' November 2, 2003.
Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'I got my first BB pistol when I was about 10, a Daisy BB gun when I was 11, and my first.22 rifle, a single-shot, bolt action Winchester for my 12th birthday—thanks to my grandfather, for mother was not keen on that.
I loved plinking and hunting, and how badly I wanted a.25 lever action carbine I used to gaze at in the local Gamble's store is difficult to express in words. Never did get it. I did get a fine lemonwood bow made by Bear Archery, though. It had only a 38-pound pull, so my range was only about 120 yards with a hunting arrow.' February 18, 2005.
Retrieved March 15, 2009. Gygax: 'Yes I own a number of handguns and shoulder weapons. Over the next few years I did add several more.22 rifles, a bolt-action, three shot Mossberg 16 gauge shotgun, a old single-barreled 12 gauge, and a.32 pistol. The rifles were used for squirrel, rabbit, and varmint hunting, the shotguns for pheasants, ducks, and geese, and the revolver for target shooting. In later years I got rid of the old weapons, added a 7.62 Argentine Mauser, a 30–30 carbine, and various other rifles, shotguns, and quite a few handguns. Years later, when I used to get death threats because of D&D I always had a.357, 9 mm, or.45 caliber pistol handy. If those were too conspicuous, a little.32,.25, or.22 derringer from Defender Arms was around.
Sure glad I didn't need to use them.' February 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2009. Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts &Design. Archived from on February 12, 2008.
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Between 1977 and 1979, Gygax released Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for advanced dorks, taking the cult phenomenon to new heights whilst giving himself a +5 salary of lordly might. '50 Greatest SF Pioneers'. March 2005. Haring, Scott D.
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