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The life tale 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 years as a child in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to his untimely fatality in 2008. Gygax's magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in reputation throughout the 1970s and '80s and irreversibly alter the world of gambling. D&D is the best-known, best-selling role-playing game ever, and it offers an elite class of alumni - Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, and Junot Diaz all have spoken openly about their experience with the overall game as teenagers, and some credit it as the workshop where their nascent imaginations were fostered. Gygax's engagement in the industry lasted long after his remarkable and involuntary departure from D&D's mother or father company, TSR, and his footprint can be seen in the genre he is largely in charge of creating. But as Witwer shows, perhaps the most compelling facet of his life and work was his unwavering dedication to the energy of creativity when confronted with myriad resources of adversity, whether social, economic, or personal. Through his creation of the role-playing genre, Gygax offered two years of gamers the various tools to invent character types and entire worlds in their heads. Informed in narrative-driven and remarkable fashion, Witwer has written an participating chronicle of the life and legacy of the emperor of the imagination.
