Last Call for Events, Get GC Merch and A New Tom Wham Games Company!
Greetings Gary Con Goers, I can’t believe 2021 is drawing to a close already. Its been a bit of a roller coaster for me persoanlly and I suspect many of you as well. I am excited for 2022 for many reasons one of which is the prospect of seeing you in Lake Geneva celebrating at…
Gary Gygax Day 2017
My Dad would be celebrating his 79th birthday today (July 27th). It’s become Gary Gygax Day, a time when gamers gather, shake the dice and share the camaraderie of the gaming table. He will be missed by many, his family as well as his extended gamer family. The Gary Con staff meeting is tomorrow, also…
Erik Garland – Gary Con
What GaryCon Means To Me I clearly remember the first time I actually saw a Dungeons and Dragons product. It was in the winter of 1979 and I was in a Woolworth’s department store in Omaha, scouting for potential Christmas presents. At about eye level, in an aisle with nothing else interesting, was this strange…
Gary Gygax Eulogy (Gary Con I)
Although the video quality isn’t stellar, the words in honor of E. Gary Gygax were. It was in this first year that friends and family decided to honor Gary’s memory through the activity that he loved most of all – Gaming. “This is my home video footage from my Dad’s funeral in Lake Geneva,…
Erik Tenkar Coppers & Crullers
I never met Gary Gygax and greatly regret that. I cut my RPG teeth on AD&D 1e and never looked back. It wasn’t until many year’s later, over on Gary’s thread at ENWorld that we actually communicated. I used to use “Coppers & Crullers” as my tag line on ENWorld, and I mentioned to Gary that…
Stephen Chenault – Mind the shot
Some years back Davis (my brother) and I were up at Gary’s. I think we there for one of the conventions in Milwaukee, the one that replaced Gencon (the name escapes me). We had trundled over to Lake Geneva to visit Gary, talk business and other sundries. We had bought Gary a bottle of his…
Lloyd Metcalf – Gary made my dream
My life and the existence of Fail Squad Games is due to the creation of a game by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson – Then later Frank Mentzer got me hooked solidly! As a young teen after some difficult home situations, my school work and attendance were dropping fast. I don’t know where I was headed,…
Luke Gygax – Operation Overlord!
My father’s birthday is July 27th, EGG Day. I will never forget the date, not because I have a good memory. Actually I am pretty bad at remembering such things, but it is emblazoned in my memory because of the ribbing I got from my father in 1985. I gave my Dad the book Footfall…
Ernie Gygax – Patience
Every time you play a game with an impatient young child who wants something exciting to happen immediately, which describes myself as a kid, it becomes a teaching opportunity. EGG (Gary) would take the time to teach, coddle and drag me along to any and all gaming activities he himself participated in. There were conventions at…