Any good geek should know who Gary Gygax was. Along with Co-Creator Dave Arneson he helped launch the fantasy gaming genre by creating a fantasy game called Dungeons & Dragons in 1974.
My dad picked up the game in 1976 and introduced it to us. I was immediately hooked and was heavily involved in gaming until the early eighties and then still played off and on until the last decade. Now I just don't have the time. I must have 300 books, Dragon magazines and modules packed away in my basement dating from the seventies until the early nineties.
Gary Gygax had been suffering from health problems for several years including an abdominal aneurysm according to his wife. His death was caused by those same problems.
Funeral arrangements for the man who died today are still pending. Along with his wife he is survived by six children.
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