Just started reading this biography of Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax by Michael Witwer. While I played my share of D&D, I was a bigger fan of TSR\u2019s spy role-playing game, Top Secret. I like that the inside cover of Witwer\u2019s book is a D&D-style map of Gygax\u2019s home base, Lake Geneva, Wis., a town I know fairly well. Having read the introduction, I wonder how many times I\u2019ve gone past Gygax\u2019s home without realizing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just started reading this biography of Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax by Michael Witwer. While I played my share of D&D, I was a bigger fan of TSR\u2019s spy role-playing game, Top Secret. I like that the inside cover of Witwer\u2019s book is a D&D-style map of Gygax\u2019s home base, Lake Geneva, Wis., a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,688],"tags":[476,657,659,658,656,655,611,654,585,573,589],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-books","category-what-im-reading","tag-biography","tag-dungeonsanddragons","tag-empireofimagination","tag-garygygax","tag-lakegeneva","tag-michaelwitwer","tag-roleplayinggames","tag-topsecret","tag-tsr","tag-whatiamreading","tag-wisconsin","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5foza-he","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}