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Although a small adventure entitled ' Temple of the Frog ' was included in the Blackmoor rules supplement in 1975, the first stand-alone D & D module published by TSR was 1978's Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, written by Gygax.
These were expanded by Gary Gygax, whose additions included a fantasy supplement, before the game was published as Chainmail.
Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.
In 2005, Gygax was involved in the Castles & Crusades role-playing game, which was conceived as a hybrid between D & D's third edition and the original version of the game conceived by Gygax.
Gygax was married twice and had six children.
Gary Gygax was born in Chicago within a few blocks of Wrigley Field on July 27, 1938.
He was the son of Swiss immigrant and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Ernst Gygax.
Gygax spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 ( after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys ), his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.
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.
Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Before Saga of Old City was released in November 1985, Gygax wrote a sequel, Artifact of Evil.
Gygax then provided some errata for the boxed set in the September 1985 issue, which was the last mention of the Greyhawk world in Dragon for almost two years.
However, different visions of TSR's future caused a power struggle within the company, and Gygax was forced out of TSR on December 31, 1985.
However, this adventure was canceled after Gygax left TSR, and the catalog number WG7 was reassigned to a new adventure, Castle Greyhawk, released in 1988.
Written by Carl Sargent and Rik Rose, this was not the city created by Gygax and Kuntz, but a new plan built from references made in previously published material.
Although this was not the Castle Greyhawk of Gygax and Kuntz, it was the first serious attempt to publish details of the castle.
Although TSR and WotC had each in turn owned the official rights to the World of Greyhawk since the first folio edition was published in 1980, the two people most responsible for its early development, Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, still had most of their original notes regarding the fifty levels of dungeons under Castle Greyhawk.

Gygax and very
According to Gygax, TSR's stewardship turned Greyhawk into something very different from what he had envisioned.
First, Gygax explains, " There were several very expert players in my campaign, and this was meant as yet another challenge to their skill — and the persistence of their theretofore-invincible characters.
Kuntz later related that Gygax was very dismayed that his masterpiece dungeon had been destroyed by a single adventurer, and as punishment, Gygax had an army pursue Robilar all the way back to his castle, which Robilar was forced to abandon.

Gygax and by
Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).
Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.
* GW1, Legion of Gold by Gary Gygax, Luke Gygax, and Paul Reiche III ( ISBN 0-935696-61-X )
" Neither Gygax nor Blume had the money to buy the shares owned by Kaye's wife, and Blume persuaded Gygax to allow his father, Melvin Blume, to buy the shares and take Kaye's place as an equal partner.
Role-playing campaign settings like Greyhawk by Gary Gygax, Dragonlance by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis and Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood are a common basis for many fantasy books and many other authors continue to contribute to the settings.
Five were written or co-written by Gygax, and the other three were from TSR's United Kingdom division:
In its 1986 Summer Mail Order Hobby Shop catalog, TSR had listed a new Greyhawk adventure called WG7 Shadowlords, a high-level adventure to be written by Gary Gygax and Skip Williams.
After Gygax left TSR in 1985, he continued to write a few more Gord the Rogue novels, which were published by New Infinities Productions: Sea of Death ( 1987 ), City of Hawks ( 1987 ), and Come Endless Darkness ( 1988 ).
However, by this time, Gygax was furious with the new direction in which TSR was taking " his " world.
Recreating the city was also 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 maintaining the look and feel of his original.

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Gary Gygax writes in the earliest edition of Dungeons & Dragons ( 1974 ): " A cross between gnomes and trolls (... perhaps, Lord Dunsany did not really make it all that clear ) with + 2 morale.
The 1987 inaugural Dragon * Con took place at the Piedmont Plaza Hotel, drew 1400 fans, and featured Guest of Honor Michael Moorcock, Lynn Abbey and Robert Asprin, Robert Adams, Ultima creator Richard " Lord British " Garriott, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax and Toastmaster Brad Strickland.
** The Lost City of Gaxmoor – adventure module ( Ernie & Luke Gygax with David Moore ) Troll Lord Games, 2002
** Hall of Many Panes – ( Gary Gygax with Jon Creffield ) Campaign Adventure Module Boxed Set with d20 stats included, Troll Lord Games 2005
* Gary Gygax ’ s The Canting Crew, the Criminal Underclass, “ Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Volume I ”, Troll Lord Games, May 2002

Gygax and included
For wizards, Gygax included six spells that could be used to affect a battle, plus two " missiles " ( fire ball and lightning bolt ).
Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, stated that he based the description of a lich included in the game on the short story " The Sword of the Sorcerer " by Gardner Fox.
Gary Gygax, in his Gord novels: City of Hawks, Come Endless Darkness, and Dance of Demons, included several non-canonical yugoloths, although Gary Gygax called them " Daemons "

Gygax and these
Under these circumstances, work on the Castle Zagyg project continued even more slowly, although Jeffrey Talanian stepped in to help Gygax.
At the point where these characters had collectively accumulated both enough wealth that they couldn't easily spend it, and standing armies that rivalled most nations ' forces, Gygax gathered all eight of the characters together — Mordenkainen ( wizard ), Yrag ( fighter ), Bigby ( wizard ), Rigby ( cleric ), Zigby ( dwarf ), Felnorith ( elf ), Vram ( elf ) & Vin ( elf )— as the Circle of Eight.

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In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
Gygax 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 on how to run a particular gaming scenario.
In 1967, Gygax organized a 20-person gaming meet in the basement of his home ; this event would go on to be called " Gen Con 0 ".
Gygax also collaborated on Tractics ( WWII to c. 1965, with Mike Reese & Leon Tucker ) and with Dave Arneson on the Napoleonic naval wargame Don't Give Up the Ship!
Basing their work on Arneson's modified version of Chainmail for his Blackmoor campaign, Gygax and Arneson collaborated on The Fantasy Game, the role-playing game that later became Dungeons & Dragons.
Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games, including Cavaliers and Roundheads ( English Civil War, with Jeff Perren ), Classic Warfare ( Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD ), and Warriors of Mars.
When he unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 1975, his share of TSR passed to his wife, a woman whom Gygax characterized as " less than personable ... After Don died she dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch.
Returning to Lake Geneva, Gygax managed to get TSR back on firm financial footing.
Gygax also changed the name of the nearby city to " Yggsburgh ", a play on his initials E. G. G.
By the time Gygax and Kuntz had stopped working on the original home campaign, the castle dungeons had encompassed fifty levels of maze-like passages and thousands of rooms and traps.
Gygax decided to concentrate his first efforts on the continent of Oerik and asked TSR's printing house about the maximum size of paper they could handle ; the answer was 34 " x 22 " ( 86 cm x 56 cm ).

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