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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)
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]]'' was born.
TSR Inc. flourished off of the game, leading to multiple game modules, [[Greyhawk
Gygax is considered to be [[Alternate Character Interpretation|one of]] [[Rule of Three|three]] [[Alternate Character Interpretation|things]]:
Contrary to decades of gamer oral tradition, his last name is actually pronounced "Gee-gax" (with a hard "G").
== Tabletop Games ==
* Gary Gygax has been referenced in many ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' products, with many things named after him as an homage.
** The [[Bonus Boss]] of ''[[Baldur's
** The ring of Gaxx, a recurring artifact.
** Zagyg, the god of Humor, Ocultism and unpredictability, was named after him.
** The city of Gryrax in [[
== Video Games ==
* He's the DM/narrator for a series of quests in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]''.▼
* [[Blizzard Entertainment]] dedicated the 2.4.0 patch of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', "Fury of the Sunwell", to Gygax.▼
== Web Comics ==
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html This strip] of ''[[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 with Death|RPGing with Death]] in [http://xkcd.com/393/ this strip] of ''[[Xkcd]]''.▼
** And this ''[[Dork Tower]]'' [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/03/05/ tribute comic].▼
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''
** As the page quote indicates, he [[Special Guest|voiced himself in one episode]].
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** The ''Futurama'' movie ''Bender's Game'', which references ''[[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]]''.
* ''[[Dexter's
▲* A few [[In Memoriam|tributes to his death]] in webcomics:
▲** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0536.html This strip] of ''[[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]]''.
▲** And this ''[[Dork Tower]]'' [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/03/05/ tribute comic].
▲* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|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]]''.
* 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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