How many of you have heard of or knows Gary Gygax?

Question

How many of you have heard of or knows Gary Gygax? If you did what would you like to tell the world about him?

Answer 1

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) (IPA: [ˈɡaɪ.ɡæks]) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973. Gygax is generally acknowledged as one of the fathers of the role-playing game.[2]



Early life and inspiration

Gygax was the son of Swiss immigrant Martin Gygax and an American mother. His love of gaming began at the age of five, playing pinochle and chess as well as the imaginative games of any child, similar to live action role-playing. He played with Jim Rasch as referee/game master and John Rasch and Don Kaye as fellow participants. It was during this timeframe that Gygax began exploring science fiction with Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" in Bluebook and Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror.



In 1953 Gygax began playing miniature war games with Kaye. The game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company captured Gygax's attention. It was from Avalon Hill that he ordered the first blank hexagon mapping sheets that were available. He began looking for innovative ways to generate random numbers, and used not only common dice (with six sides), but dice of all five platonic solid shapes.

Answer 2

Ive never heard of Gary Gygax.

Answer 3

he was a very creative and ingenious man. The creator of a world that some of us would love to live in,full magic ,fantasy and beings of many forms. now there are many games that follow his footsteps.

Answer 4

The Creator Of D&D Is Dead Now God Rest His Spirt

Answer 5

Now he can live forever in the world of dungeons and dragons and never have to worry about the monsters in the real world again!

Answer 6

Creator of D&D and I heard he died. *sniff* He will be missed, but he lives on through his rp creation. D&D will never die.

Answer 7

Nerd Alert, he created D&D.

Answer 8

as far a i know he was one of te big heads behind D & D

Answer 9

da he is only the creator of dnd

Answer 10

Somewhere there are fat virgins crying while clutching a 20 sided die.

Answer 11

he was a good man and very smart and well mannered

Answer 12

Sorry :( no clue