Wisconsin welcomes Dungeons & Dragons museum

Gary Gygax, the late co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game, photographed at ModCon in September 1999. The former headquarters of the company that produced the iconic game became the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum in July. Photo credit: Moroboshi. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Gary Gygax, the late co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game, photographed at ModCon in September 1999. The former headquarters of the company that produced the iconic game became the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum in July. Photo credit: Moroboshi. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Gary Gygax, the late co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game, photographed at ModCon in September 1999. The former site of the company that produced the iconic game became the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum in July. Photo credit: Moroboshi. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – After Jeff Leason graduated from high school in 1978, his fellow school orchestra member Ernie Gygax approached him with an opportunity. “He said, ‘If you need a job, come work at my dad’s company,'” Leason recalled. “I had no idea what the heck it was.”

Gary Gygax, Ernie’s father, founded the company Tactical Studies Rules in Lake Geneva to produce Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game he created with his friend, Dave Arneson, a University of Minnesota student at the time. Leason had been playing the game since 1975, but that was before TSR existed as a game company.

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