Duke Seifried

Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in speech/radio-television. Seifried helped bring polyhedral dice and miniatures into the gaming hobby. He claims that his depiction of Helm's Deep was the most accurate as he'd visited with Professor Tolkien and made sketches with him before designing it. He attended Gary Gygax's funeral. A week before Gygax died, Seifried stumbled upon a one-of-a-kind metal miniature he'd made specifically for Gary many years ago. He had set it aside, intending to give it back to Gary. As a result, the miniature wound up in the pocket of Gary's suit, and he was buried with it. Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Scruby Award for lifetime achievement charter member of the HMGS Legion of Honor for distinguished service to the hobby Commander of the Legion of Honor at the time of his death Game Master Lifetime Achievement Award the Game Master of the Year Award was renamed The Duke Seifried Game Master of the Year Award Game Manufacturers Association Hall of Fame Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Origins Award coined "Adventure Gaming" as a phrase A month later, he had triple bypass surgery on April 23, 2008. In December 2017, the book, Duke Seifried and the Development of American Miniature Wargaming was published. He lived in Madison, Wisconsin, where he has is known as a guitar player. His ancestors are from Austria. He died in 2018 after a 9 1/2-year battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.