1974 – Dungeons & Dragons Philip Mitchell/Wikimedia Commons Also referred to as D&D, Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing board game first developed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was a ...

On March 20, 2025, Mike Mearls, one of the architects of modern Dungeons & Dragons, let loose at Gary Con with a scathing critique of “safe” gaming. Posting on X while attending the Lake ...

While the first mansions were being built on Geneva Lake, the town was known for something else. Luxurious sanitariums, or mental institutions, helped shape the local economy from 1885-1930.

Gygax Jr., who continued his father Gary Gygax's legacy through a host of TTRPG endeavors, passed away last night. Ernie Gygax Jr.—son of Gary Gygax, and an early playtester of what would become ...

When the pandemic hit decades later, I started teaching my son and 15 other kids in our Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood how to play the role-playing game that Gary Gygax cocreated in his ...

When the pandemic hit decades later, I started teaching my son and 15 other kids in our Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood how to play the role-playing game that Gary Gygax cocreated in his ...

Dungeons & Dragons was created by game designers Gary Gygax and David Arneson in 1974. The pair enjoyed playing historical war games, and wanted to make a system of their own.

Here are just a few. The Lake Geneva house where Dungeons & Dragons was born At 330 Center St., fans can see the house that Gary and Mary Jo Gygax moved into with their kids in 1966.

Stormberg (who started playing D&D in 1981) realized Lake Geneva was missing out on tapping into the D&D legacy; he joined the Gygax Memorial Fund in 2019 and has spent the past five years ...