RIP Gary Gygax
The co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons have passed on. You can consider him to be like the father of RPG because before all these high tech RPG games start appearing with fantastic graphics, there was Dungeons and Dragons. Gary Gygax passed on from heart failure at the age of 69.
The news was first announced on the forums of Troll Lord Games, the publisher of Gygax’s most recent works. It has since been directly confirmed by the company, which will post an announcement on its Web site later today.
Gygax was best known for helping create Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and pioneered tabletop RPGs. The first D&D rulebooks were released in 1974 by TSR, Inc., the tabletop RPG company Gygax founded with Don Kaye the year prior. Since then, there have been three full-fledged reworkings of D&D, numerous revisions and updates, and dozens of additional rulebooks, settings, and campaigns.
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