In 2005, Yolanda Frontany and her husband fell in love with a quaint old house in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and bought it. Soon after, she began noticing people stopping by to take pictures of the house outside. Then, one day she got a call: would she mind that a film crew came out to her house to film a documentary? It turned out that her house at 330 Center Street was the birthplace of Dungeons & Dragons.
In 1972, avid wargamer E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson collaborated to create a new "roleplaying game." They used Gygax's basement to play early versions of the game with fellow gamers. After much playtesting and refinements, Gygax and Arneson published the game and called it Dungeons & Dragons - and the rest was gaming history.
Frontany went from not knowing much about role-playing games to making the house available to avid gamers to come and play, or even stay at the house. But the 100-year-old house was definitely showing its age: large trees had invaded its plumbing system and foundation. Its heating system is basically giving its residents Cold Damage, and the roof and gutters had taken critical hits from the elements.
So, friends and fans of Dungeons & Dragons had come up with an Indiegogo quest to preserve the birthplace of DnD, where your donation will help fund repairs to the house.