Schedule:

Director - Horticultural Hall

Meet-n-Greet - Geneva Lake Museum

Guest Appearance - American Legion Hall: Fight in the Skies / Dawn Patrol

Mike Carr began gaming as a teenager in the 1960s in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he met Dave Arneson and Dave Wesely – and became the first-ever Cleric in D&D®. Through the International Federation of Wargaming (IFW) he met Gary Gygax, who encouraged him to self-publish his game “Fight in the Skies” through the IFW’s Wargame Inventors Guild. The game appeared in 1976 as one of TSR’s first boxed games, and later as “Dawn Patrol” in 1982.

At Gary Gygax’s invitation, Mike joined TSR in 1976 and worked there until 1983. At TSR he wrote the B1 Module “In Search of the Unknown,” served as editor for the Monster Manual, Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide, and wrote the Endless Quest book “Robbers & Robots” that sold over 250,000 copies. He also edited Gygax and Arneson’s Napoleonic naval rules “Don’t Give Up the Ship!” and earned credit as co-author.

Mike attended the first Gen Con® on August 24th, 1968 and after Gary Gygax’s welcoming remarks, ran the first event, a “Fight in the Skies” game. Mike is the only person who has attended every Gen Con® and his “Dawn Patrol” game is the only one that has been played there every year.