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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 gamesUrg, 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DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers and this summer’s Bumble Bee) struck a deal to ‘oversee the Gygax catalog of published and unpublished works’.…

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

Gygax Magazine to close

January 22, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, legal, tsr games

What on Earth is Mythoard and why should RPGers care?

February 10, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

If you pop over to Mythoard you’ll find a site that promises to send you a box full of RPG goodies every month. This month they’ve content from Chessex, Throwi Games, Moon Dice Games, Flatland Games, Genius Loci Games and Imaginary Maps.…

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: chessex, flatland games, genius loci games, goodman games, gygax magazine, imaginary maps, moon dice games, mythoard, olde house rules, Simian Circle Games, The Design Mechanism, throwi games

Does anyone care? Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons

January 26, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

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.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, Jon Peterson, wizards of the coast

The Ernie Gygax Fire Relief fund

February 18, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: ernie gygax, Gary Gygax, gygax magazine

Is there conflict between the ‘Gary Gygax Estate’ and new Gygax Magazine?

November 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This may be a tricky story to cover and I suspect emotions are running high. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons. Most people consider D&D to be the original tabletop RPG and Gary Gygax to be its father.…

Filed Under: Tabletop RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, gygax magazine, legal, TSR

 

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