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Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D

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Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-author of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the vital influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the different characters in the story.

Gygax was once the son of immigrants who grew up in Lake Geneva, WI, in the 1950s. An imaginative misfit, he escaped into a virtual world based on science fiction novels, military history and strategic games like chess. In the mid-1970s, he co-created the wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons game. Starting out in the basement of his home, he was once soon struggling to stay alongside of the demand. Gygax was once a purist, in the sense that he was once adamant that players use their imaginations and that the rules of the game remain flexible. A creative mind with no real knowledge of business, he made some strategic errors and had a falling out with the game’s co-author, his close friend and partner, David Arneson.

By the late 1970s the game had develop into so popular among kids that parents began to worry — such a lot in order that a mom’s group was once formed to alert parents to the dangers of role play and fantasy. The backlash only fueled the fires of the young fans who continued to play the game, escaping into imaginary worlds. Before long, D&D conventions were set up around the country and the game inspired everything from movies to the first video games. With D&D, Gygax created the type of role playing fantasy that would fuel the multibillion dollar video game industry, and develop into a foundation of recent geek culture.

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