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{{quote|''"Hello Fry, it's a ... ''(stops mid-sentence, throws two ten -sided dice) pleasure'' to meet you."''|'''Gary Gygax''' (voicing himself), ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''}}
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Ah, good old '''Ernest Gary Gygax'''. Where would we be without thee? Probably somewhere else, given the sheer different forms of media (and with them, a very large number of tropes) that originated from his work.
 
Back in the day, there were no [[Tabletop Roleplaying Games|Role Playing Games]]. None. Only [[War Gaming|tabletop war games]]. Gygax didn't like that at all, so he asked his friend Dave Arneson to make one. Arneson rewrote all of the rules to ''Chainmail'', a system that Gygax and the local shop owner Jeff Perren had developed, to create ''Blackmoor'', the first tabletop RPG. Gygax then, along with Arneson, worked to expand this from a simple add-on to ''Chainmail'' to its own system entirely. And thus, ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' was born.
 
TSR Inc. flourished off of the game, leading to multiple game modules, [[Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)|many]] [[Planescape (Tabletop Game)|many]] ''[[Dark Sun (Tabletop Game)|many]]'' '''[[Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game)|many]]''' [[Dragonlance (Literature)|alternate]] [[Eberron (Tabletop Game)|universes]], and eventually even a [[Dungeons and Dragons (Animationanimation)|cartoon adaptation]]. However, eventually TSR fell under new management, causing him to leave the company. He continued to work on new tabletop RPGs and write novels afterwards, and remained affiliated with his original creation all his life. In March of 2008, Gygax died at the age of 69.
 
Gygax is considered to be [[Alternate Character Interpretation|one of]] [[Rule of Three|three]] [[Alternate Character Interpretation|things]]:
* 1.# The god of gaming made flesh.
* 2.# A genius who is effectively the father of modern role playing.
* 3.# A [[Tomb of Horrors|sadistic]] and [[Temple of Elemental Evil|crazy]] man who liked watching people squirm.
 
Contrary to decades of gamer oral tradition, his last name is actually pronounced "Gee-gax" (with a hard "G").
=== Media in which Gygax appears in some form or another includes: ===▼
 
▲=== {{examples|Media in which Gygax appears in some form or another includesinclude: ===}}
* Gary Gygax has been referenced in many ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' products, with many things named after him as an homage.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
** The [[Bonus Boss]] of ''[[Baldurs Gate (Video Game)|Baldurs Gate]] 2'' is named Kangaxx.▼
▲* Gary Gygax has been referenced in many ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' products, with many things named after him as an homage.
▲** The [[Bonus Boss]] of ''[[Baldurs Gate (Video Game)|BaldursBaldur's Gate]] 2'' is named Kangaxx.
** The ring of Gaxx, a recurring artifact.
** Zagyg, the god of Humor, Ocultism and unpredictability, was named after him.
** The city of Gryrax in [[Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)|Greyhawk]] is named for him.
 
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* He's the DM/narrator for a series of quests in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online (Video Game)|Dungeons and Dragons Online]]''.▼
* [[Blizzard Entertainment]] dedicated the 2.4.0 patch of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', "Fury of the Sunwell", to Gygax.▼
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A few [[In Memoriam|tributetributes to his death]] in webcomicsweb comics:▼
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html This strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]''. (Warning: [[Tear Jerker|Prepare some kleenex]] just in case you're a sensitive or sentimental person; [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|It's that kind of strip.]])▼
** [[Chess Withwith Death|RPGing with Death]] in [http://xkcd.com/393/ this strip] of ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcdxkcd]]''.▼
** And this ''[[Dork Tower]]'' [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/03/05/ tribute comic].▼
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''
** As the page quote indicates, he [[Special Guest|voiced himself in one episode]].
** In "Fry Am the Egg Man", an ancient tome titled the "Gygaxicon" is used.
** The ''Futurama'' movie ''Bender's Game'', which references ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' heavily, is dedicated to him. Gary Gygax died while the movie was in production.
* He also [[Special Guest|voiced himself]] in an episode of ''[[Code Monkeys]]''.
* ''[[Dexters Laboratory (Animation)|DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' tipped its hat to him in the episode "D&DD", with Dexter's [[God Mode Sue]] character being named "Gygax".▼
▲* A few [[In Memoriam|tribute to his death]] in webcomics:
 
▲** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html This strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]''. (Warning: [[Tear Jerker|Prepare some kleenex]] just in case you're a sensitive or sentimental person; [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|It's that kind of strip.]])
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲** [[Chess With Death|RPGing with Death]] in [http://xkcd.com/393/ this strip] of ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]''.
▲** And this ''[[Dork Tower]]'' [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/03/05/ tribute comic].
▲* ''[[Dexters Laboratory (Animation)|Dexters Laboratory]]'' tipped its hat to him in the episode "D&DD", with Dexter's [[God Mode Sue]] character being named "Gygax".
▲* He's the DM/narrator for a series of quests in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online (Video Game)|Dungeons and Dragons Online]]''.
* A strain of bacteria was named in honor of Gygax, "Arthronema gygaxiana sp nov UTCC393".
▲* [[Blizzard Entertainment]] dedicated the 2.4.0 patch of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', "Fury of the Sunwell", to Gygax.
 
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