Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax (/ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GY-gaks) (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating with Dave Arneson the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Gygax has been described as the father of D&D.
In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he helped develop Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare. He co-founded the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The following year, he and Arneson created D&D, which expanded on Gygax's Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. In the same year, he founded The Dragon, a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called "modules" that gave a person running a D&D game (the "Dungeon Master") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario. In 1983, he worked to license the D&D product line into the successful D&D cartoon series.
Gygax, E. Gary Filmography
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: writer
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1983, role: miscellaneous crew
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1983, role: writer
George Ducas
How can you be so close to a stranger?
I wonder if he knows you?
Does he care?
Now the loving between us
Is in danger
Tell me how can I ever
Give up all we share?
The invisible man
Waits deep in your heart
And he won't let me in, whatever I do
The invisible man
Waits deep in your heart
And we're never alone
Now he's part of you too
Tell me the reason
Why do you need him?
We say we could never
Tell a lie
And now when I ask you
Is it love you believe in?
You can't find an answer
You don't even try
The invisible man
Waits deep in your heart
And he won't let me in, whatever I do
The invisible man
Waits deep in your heart
And we're never alone
