Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association
{{Short description|Wargaming club active in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, US}}
The Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) was a wargaming club active in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, during the early 1970s.
History
At its inception around February and March 1970, it was originally known as the Lake Geneva Tactical Games Association, though this name gave way to 'LGTSA' within weeks.{{cite book | title = Playing at the World | last = Peterson | first = Jon | publisher = Unreason Press | year = 2012 | location = San Diego, California | page = 26 | isbn = 978-0615642048}} Its early membership included Gary Gygax, Terry and Rob Kuntz, Ernie Gygax, Jeff Perren, Mike Reese, Leon Tucker, and Don Kaye.{{cite journal|last=Livingstone|first=Ian|date=August–September 1979|title=White Dwarf interviews Gary Gygax|journal=White Dwarf|publisher=Games Workshop|location=London|issue=14|pages=23–24}} The group usually met weekly in Gygax's basement.{{cite news | date = March 13, 2008 | title = Gary Gygax | newspaper = The Economist | url = http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10838120&CFID=17643695&CFTOKEN=eb6b0a6fe805fcd3-C484BEF6-B27C-BB00-0127F658915D58E3 | access-date = 2008-10-07 }}{{cite journal | last = La Farge | first = Paul | title = Destroy All Monsters | journal = The Believer Magazine |date=September 2006 | url = http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920141500/http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge| url-status = dead |archive-date=2008-09-20}} Brian Blume joined the LGTSA in the summer of 1973.{{cite book | title = Playing at the World | last = Peterson | first = Jon | publisher = Unreason Press | year = 2012 | location = San Diego, California | page = 78 | isbn = 978-0615642048}} When Gygax and Kaye founded Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.) in 1973 to publish Dungeons & Dragons, they echoed part of the name of the LGTSA in the name of their new company; Blume later soon joined the partnership. The LGTSA continued to exist as a wargaming group well after the publication of Dungeons & Dragons.