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Ernest Gary Gygax Born:July 27, 1938 and passing away March 4, 2008 was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with [[Dave Arneson]].

In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he helped develop Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare. He co-founded the company [[Tactical Studies Rules]] also known as [[TSR]] with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The following year, he and Arneson created D&D, which expanded on Gygax's Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. In the same year, he founded The Dragon, a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]].

Gygax was married twice and had six children. In 2004, Gygax suffered two strokes, narrowly avoided a subsequent heart attack, was then diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, and died in March 2008.

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