A guildmate shared this with me, thought I would pass on - enjoy!
https://lacrossetribune.com/news/sta...a49112735.html
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LAKE GENEVA — The pilgrims arrive here year round.
They may play a round of golf, take in a boat cruise around the lake, swim at the beach and shop in this city’s bustling downtown.
But for many, the main purpose of a trip to this Walworth County hub of tourism revolves around a former cobbler who helped invent a game that transformed an industry.
Gary Con
Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and the founding father of fantasy gaming, in his hometown of Lake Geneva in 2001. Gygax died in 2008.
RON KUENSTLER
In 1973, Gary Gygax co-created Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game published in 1974 including dice with up to 20 sides, instruction manuals filled with pages of interpretive and flexible rules and characters that included monsters, dragons and warlocks............