Gaming at the Gygax House: A Visit to the Basement Where D&D Began
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2014
- A visit to the former home of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. It was in the basement of this home at 330 Center Street, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gygax, Dave Arneson, and other gamers added fantasy and role-playing elements to miniature tabletop strategy games. These rules would eventually become the first version of D&D. The tour also includes a brief tour of Lake Geneva, home of Gygax's company Tactical Studies Rules, later known as TSR, Inc., the publisher of D&D and other role-playing products; there's also a brief visit to Horticultural Hall, the first venue for the gaming convention Gen Con in 1968). D&D historian Jon Peterson, author of Playing At the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, shot this video, entitled "Gaming at the Gygax House."
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My aunt and her family owned this house after Gary. I've been in that house a dozen times or so-- eaten in that living room and played Goldeneye with my cousin in the room off to the left before the kitchen. There was carpet everywhere though; they found out the hardwood was underneath after they sold it!
You are a very lucky guy. I would be deeply moved if I visited that basement where D&D was born.
You're too cool.
I bought the TSR basic red box set in the early 1980s and who would have thought in a rainy suburb of Preston England a group of us got together and played regularly in the evenings, great times..., Gary Gyax you were an inspiration to millions... Where is his statue ?
The terrain on the Sand Table is a setup from the "Sturmgeshcutz and Sorcery" scenario from The Strategic Review #5, pitting a German WW2 Recon patrol from the "Tractics" miniatures game, versus "The Servants of the Gatherer", a Chainmail fantasy army.
It was so nice to see where my favorite game was born.
Fact.
Thank you sir for this video it is awesome to see this. Gary Gygax....we owe him so, so much! Thank you for making the world a better place for so many people.
My dad knew gary....... It amazing seeing gary gygaxs house now!
It's always interesting to see an actual sand table.they've really fallen out of use but i think their potential is under appreciated.
Absolutely awesome to see this. Thanks so much to Jon Peterson for all his explorations of the history of D&D and RPG's.
Wisconsinite here, huge Roleplaying gamer and I love my home state, love Lake Geneva, and am proud to live in the home of D&D and GenCon! Great video!
Yes.
So much yes.
Thanks for the video. I think it is awesome that D&D started in such an ordinary looking home. :)
now this basement is truly a treat to behold
Man.... This is awsome!!! I wish I knew what goes on inside that house nowadays! This video made me want to go back to playing D&D...
Great video. Somehow the house and basement is exactly how I thought it would be, after reading some accounts of those early days.
I remember in the late 70's when my brother first brought home D&D after playing it with some friends. It was something *before* the famous Basic red box set...more like small format magazines than books. Anyway...we played that for a bit then my brother got the famous D&D Basic boxed set, which we played for a year or two, along with his friends and some of mine as D&D swept through certain circles in school/neighborhood. Then we moved on to AD&D and all those wonderful books which we played pretty much through the first half of the 80's. Through all of that, in the days before the internet, I clearly remember reading TSR Games Lake Geneva on all those books/sets/modules for all those years and in my kid's mind I always pictured some magical wonderful place, almost a fantasy setting.
My older brother graduated from HS 4 years before me and was off in the Army, then college and I played a lot of sports in high school, so I really didn't game much after that...only sporadically with friends who were trying out new things like Robotech, Toon!, Car Wars, etc.. but I really didn't game from about the age of 14 until I was almost 50. I moved away from my childhood city/state ...a long way away...for almost 3 decades. But I have moved back home for a few years for work, and my brother and I now live a block walk from each other and we have a group that games every Sunday. Never thought I'd ever game again. Nowadays we use all HERO systems, but I don't GM, so it's really their choice.
Would love to see this and play there. What an honor. D and D was a huge huge part of my life for many years. I still have my huge collection. It’s really to hard to sell. I have to much emotional attachment to it all.It got me through some very dark times in my life
What books are you selling?
Thank you for this video. It’s wonderful to see what the inside of the Gygax home looked like years ago when the lived there.
So cool. Cant believe I'm only now stumbling on this video.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you for sharing this.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.
Great to see this!
Nice, thanks for the video...
2:54 Her'es a kind of die that no longer exists: a 20-sided die with numbers 0-9 marked twice. It was used for percentile rolls (before there was a d10 with kite-shaped faces) but if you marked one set of 0-9 differently from the other set, you could generate rolls of 1-20 as well.
They still exist. I got scads of them from Chessex not long ago. They're floating around out there, don't worry!
You had to color them yourself, fill in the little grooves with crayon and wipe away the excess. And my friend cheated because his own personal d20 for to hit rolls secretly had a few more 11-20's colored than 1-10's, until we demanded to inspect it one day.
You could also roll it with a separate d6. 1-3 on the d6 signifies the lower 10. 4-6 on the d6 signifies the upper 10.
Great video. I love D&D.
That was awesome.
Amazing. Cool thanks.
I love this!
That is really cool :)
I would have thought they'd give Gygax a statue. Can you think of anyone else from Lake Geneva?
Right on man =)
Just wanted to say I loved your book.
thank you! I really appreciate it.
We dig it.
Good commentary
you had to be there !
You been to Mecca, son!
I understand someone named Yolanda owns the house now. She was offering a B&B at the house.
Okay, I did not know that's what GenCon stands for.
Im related to gary :)
Oh? How?
Can you just visit this house or do you have to pay, or is it for reservation?
During Gary Con there is a guy that usually rents the house for that week to run his game. You can usually stop by and go through during the weekend of the Con.
How lame it would be to play 5e upstairs.. lol.
Playing Castle Greyhawk?! Bah. Shoulda been Village of Hommlet!
Wow
So sad that he died before he could see his game really take off because of shows like Critical Role.
me escrevi folta vc
that sounds cool as shit