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Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons / by Michael Witwer.

by Witwer, Michael, author.

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New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Dungeons and Dragons (Game)

9781632862792 (alk. paper)

1632862794 (alk. paper)

xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has been told only in bits and pieces. Michael Witwer has written a dynamic, dramatized biography of Gygax from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to his untimely death in 2008. Gygax's magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in popularity throughout the 1970s and '80s and irreversibly alter the world of gaming. D&D is the best-known, best-selling role-playing game of all time, and it boasts an elite class of alumni--Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, and Junot Diaz all have spoken openly about their experience with the game as teenagers, and some credit it as the workshop where their nascent imaginations were fostered.

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