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Second Gygax Will brings the family to court as a D&D legacy battle brews

May 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Luke Gygax has a second Will that his father wrote, and it may replace the one Gail has been using to date.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, legal, luke gygax

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks: An old school D&D adventure that inspires musicians

March 21, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It was written by Gary Gygax in 1976, back when D&D was only two years old and played in the Origins II convention.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax

Covid:-19: Gary Con XII cancelled

March 14, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Resort is going to release all bookings without a cancellation fee.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gary con, Gary Gygax

Gary Con faces boycott calls

December 13, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 11 Comments

This year Gary Con is facing calls for a boycott. Stacy Dellorfana, the founder of ConTessa, has led the charge.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bill webb, frog god games, gary con, Gary Gygax, luke gygax

Did Tolkien inspire Dungeons & Dragons?

December 10, 2018 by Guest Writer 3 Comments

Some of the most obvious Lord of the Rings influences are found in Dungeons & Dragons’ original character races, creatures and classes: Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and Humans were included, with monsters such as Balrogs and Ents — which are highly unique to the Lord of the Rings — also being featured in the game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, J. R. R. Tolkien, lord of the rings

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

D&D’s Gary Gygax’s widow is being sued by Hollywood over a dungeon

August 15, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gary Gygax - the guy who really enjoyed playing games

Urg, this looks messy. Two years ago the movie producer Tom DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers and this summer’s Bumble Bee) struck a deal to ‘oversee the Gygax catalog of published and unpublished works’. Now, according to the widow of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator, she is being used by him and New Myth Entertainment for $30 million. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, legal, luke gygax

Wizards of the Coast using Eberron as test case for future D&D 5e settings

July 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today Founders and Legends is streaming on Dungeons & Dragon’s Twitch channel. The show features Luke Gygax, son of D&D’s famous co-creator Gary Gygax as he plays in three games and talks to host Satine Phoenix about the origins. In the first hour of the stream, now available as a video archive, Satine and Luke […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eberron, Gary Gygax, luke gygax, Mike Mearls, Ravnica, Satine Phoenix, twitch

Tomb Of Horrors: Inside D&D’s most deadly, divisive and downright famous dungeon

February 27, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

It’s 2006. Our party are trapped on a frozen island on a forgotten continent, miles from Faerun. Unable to leave due to a binding spell placed on us by our enemies, we have searched the island for a way out. Finding evidence of ruins beneath us, we start to dig our way in. After the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: advanced dungeons & dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, John Wick, ready player one

11 ideas for Tenser’s Floating Disk

February 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Does your D&D Wizard have the 1st level Conjuration ritual “Tenser’s Floating Disk” but struggles to find a use for it? The challenge with the disk is that it stops moving if you are within 20 feet of it. Once your wizard is further away then it’ll try to follow you, floating 3 feet above […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeon & Dragons, Gary Gygax

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