Today I Found Out:
Gary Gygax (pronounced GHEE-Gax) was an insurance underwriter living in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in the late 1960s. He made his living calculating the probabilities that an individual seeking to buy insurance would become sick or disabled or die, and he used these estimates to set the premiums and payouts on the policies he reviewed. Every policy was like a roll of the dice: If Gygax calculated correctly, the individual received sufficient coverage at a fair price, and the insurance company had a good shot at earning a fair profit. If he was incorrect, either the individual or the insurance company would lose.
In Gygax’s free time, he loved to roll dice of a different sort: He played war games in his home with fellow members of a club called the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association.
Many of us have a soft spot for Dungeons and Dragons, even if we don’t play it anymore and I always like reading stories about how it came to be. FYI, I was a 200lbs Dwarven Fighter-Thief with a drinking problem and a hatred of any humans over 6ft tall. Caused all kinds of problems. I still have my D&D dice.
Haven’t touched my D&D dice in ages, but play in a PBEM game still. It’s fun, nice leisurely pace (the previous game with this person took several years for the campaign to come to fruition).
Been playing on and off since 1977-ish.
I still have the forbidden original Deities and Demigods book squirreled away; the one with Elric of Melibone, and Cthulhu, among other copyright violations…
I loved D&D for a significant amount of time. But then I discovered acting.
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My university was located just down the road from The Dungeon and Dragons folks and we hosted the first few GenCon gamer conventions.
They outgrew our facility after a few years.
So, the idea of gamer conventions and cosplay is not foreign to me. We;’re talking the late 70s here.