{"id":554,"date":"2008-03-04T16:56:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-03-04\/dd-gary-gygax-dead-at-69\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:56:53","slug":"dd-gary-gygax-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/dd-gary-gygax-dead-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"D&D Gary Gygax Dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dungeons-and-dragons-core-rules-250.jpg\"Fans of anything stemming from the Fantasy genre mourn the loss of one of our seminal figures.\u00a0 From this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gary Gygax, who co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.<\/p>\n

He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.<\/p>\n

Gygax and co-creator Dave Arneson developed the fantasy role-playing game in 1974. It became one of the best-selling games ever and influenced video games, books and movies.<\/p>\n

Gygax’ wife said he always enjoyed hearing from the game’s legion of devoted fans about how Dungeons & Dragons influenced their lives. Many would stop by the family’s home in Lake Geneva, which is about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, she said.<\/p>\n

“It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them,” Gail Gygax said. “He really enjoyed that.”<\/p>\n

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters for themselves and describe their adventures with the help of complicated rules and unusually shaped dice.<\/p>\n

The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that are still growing in popularity.<\/p>\n

Gygax had been in declining health for several years but as recently as January he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons at their home, Gail Gygax said.<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements are pending. In addition to his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The game world in its’ many forms as well as entertainment in many forms owes Gygax an inestimable debt for the realms he helped create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fans of anything stemming from the Fantasy genre mourn the loss of one of our seminal figures.\u00a0 From this article: Gary Gygax, who co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69. He had been suffering from health problems for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}