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 […]
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Gary Gygax Articles - Page 4
Looking back to 1st September 2013, Andrew Girdwood filed a report detailed as "Neal Tringham is an author who writes about this sort of subject. His A First Survey - Science Fiction Hobby Games was released in May of this year and serves as a history and guide to tabletop gaming in the genre. The book is based on Tringham's contributions to the Hugo Award winning edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.". It also was tagged with Dave Arneson.
Continue exploring Geek Native's articles tagged with Gary Gygax below.
Gygax Magazine to close
There had been some dispute over the name of the Gygax Magazine. The magazine had Luke and Ernie Gygax on board if not the whole Gygax Estate but now that’s changed. The result means the magazine cease being published. In an email to subscribers, Jayson Elliot of TSR Games, noted; As you may have heard, […]
350 free dungeons and winning tips
The One Page Dungeon Contest is a chance to put your ideas and designs in front of the roleplaying community. This year Gary Gygax’s son Ernie Gygax will be a judge along with the famous Steve Winter of TSR and Wizards of the Coast fame. The contest has created more than 300 one page dungeons […]
Gaming history: Dungeons & Dreamers review
The 40th birthday for Dungeons & Dragons happened this year, the community celebrated it and the hobby basked in some positive press attention. Today is International GM’s Day and it seems a fitting day to look back at the hobby. As it happens, I don’t need to do any research for this at all. Sitting […]
The creation of Dungeons & Dragons: The Great Kingdom
http://vimeo.com/85059163 This is the trailer for the documentary The Great Kingdom that follows the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s about the great work of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson… and then the troubles with TSR. I think the trailer looks pretty compelling. It’s just a few minutes long and seems to promise an interesting […]
Does anyone care? Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons
Today is Dungeons & Dragon’s 40th birthday. While we can’t be %100 that the 26th is the exact date, as it was never announced, historian and author Jon Peterson presents some great research on his blog that really leaves little debate. The approach to the birthday has been covered here on Geek Native. There’s been […]
Celebrate the birthday of modern roleplaying
We’ve roleplayed for generations but Dungeons & Dragons is considered the first modern roleplaying game. It was published in 1974 and will be 40 this year. This blogger has asked Wizards of the Coast whether they’ll be celebrating the birthday of their flagship RPG. At the time this post was written the press team of […]
Gaming history: A First Survey – Science Fiction Hobby Games
Do you know much about the origin of the roleplaying games hobby? Perhaps you know Gary Gygax published Dungeons & Dragons in 1974? A gamer geek might remind you that it was Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax who published the game. D&D was actually a cariation of the Chainmail war game too. Neal Tringham is […]
Swords and Wizardry Monstrosities review
Swords and Wizardry Monstrosities is the largest ever compilation of monsters for Swords & Wizardry from Frog God Games. There are 186 new monsters and hundreds of older monsters from the first edition of the game and they’re all in one place. Swords and Wizardry itself dates back to the 1970s and Frog God Games’ version […]
The Ernie Gygax Fire Relief fund
Ernie Gygax, son of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax lost his home yesterday to a fire. It is understood that no one was hurt but the Ernie Gygax Fire Relief fund is now being coordinated on Facebook. According to Facebook, Ernie currently lives by Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Tim Kask wrote; Ernie’s Inferno Update: 7:00 […]
