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Gygax was born in Chicago, the son of Almina Emelie "Posey" Burdick [3]: 15 and Swiss immigrant and former Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Ernst Gygax. [4] [5] He was named Ernest after his father, but was commonly known as Gary, the middle name given to him by his mother after the actor Gary Cooper.
Lorraine Dille Williams is an American businesswoman. She was hired as manager of TSR, Inc. by company co-founder Gary Gygax in 1984, and was in charge of the table game company from 1986 to 1997.
Brian Blume and Gary Gygax reorganized the business from a partnership to a corporation called TSR Hobbies, Inc. At first, it was a separate company to market miniatures and games from other companies, an enterprise which was also connected to the opening of the Dungeon hobby shop in Lake Geneva. [7]
In the early 1980s, Gygax became embroiled in a political struggle for control of TSR and disputes related to the company's deteriorating financial situation. After the July 1975 death of D&D co-founder Don Kaye, Gygax and Brian Blume reorganized their company from a partnership to a corporation called TSR Hobbies. Gygax owned 150 shares, Blume ...
Acererak first appears in the original Tomb of Horrors adventure (1978) by Gary Gygax as the main adversary. [1] One of the areas in the Tomb is a "Chapel of Evil", described as "obviously some form of temple area - there are scenes of normal life painted on the walls, but the people have rotting flesh, skeletal hands, worms eating them, etc." [3]: 5 The adventure described him as "a human ...
After years of science-fiction and near-future games, GDW's first fantasy roleplaying game." [2]: 61–62 Gygax had originally planned to publish his adventure Necropolis for New Infinites Productions but ultimately published it through GDW as a Mythus adventure in 1992. [2]: 366 Gygax also wrote novels for the Mythus setting. [2]: 415
David Lance Arneson (/ ˈ ɑːr n ɪ s ən /; October 1, 1947 – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. [3]
Brian John Blume (January 12, 1950 – March 27, 2020) [2] was an American game designer and writer, principally known as a former business partner of Gary Gygax at TSR, Inc., original publishers of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.