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...collaborator Gary Gygax (who died last year) created a new genre of entertainment with their 1974 role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. Dave Arneson, 61, and Gygax promoted gaming that encouraged teamwork to succeed...
...game of make-believe took on an entirely new dimension in 1974 after E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created the cultish, fantasy-role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. In the mythic game--an immediate obsession for smart, geeky teenage boys everywhere--players adhere to complex rules while pretending to be wizards, warriors, elves and other medieval-era oddballs. The still popular D & D spawned TV shows, films and countless face-to-face and online imitators. Gygax, who had been in poor health...
...other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game that launched a million junior high school wedgies...
...Harvard made one of the greatest contributions of the war," said Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, USN, Saturday at commissioning exercises for 32 NROTC Seniors in University Hall. Admiral Gygax is commandant of the First Naval District...
General Sherman Miles and Admiral Felix X. Gygax will award commissions to the graduating officers, while the invocation ceremonies are performed by Colonel Abbot Peterson, Chaplain of the First Service Command, and the benediction by Naval Chaplain, Lieutenant Ralph E. Tupper...