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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|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' was born.
TSR Inc. flourished off of the game, leading to multiple game modules, [[Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)|many]] [[Planescape|many]] ''[[Dark Sun|many]]'' '''[[Forgotten Realms|many]]''' [[Dragonlance|alternate]] [[Eberron|universes]], and eventually even a [[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|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
Gygax is considered to be [[Alternate Character Interpretation|one of]] [[Rule of Three|three]] [[Alternate Character Interpretation|things]]:
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* 3. A [[Tomb of Horrors|sadistic]] and [[Temple of Elemental Evil|crazy]] man who liked watching people squirm.
* Gary Gygax has been referenced in many ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' products, with many things named after him as an homage.
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