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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]]''}}
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
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 2008, Gygax died at the age of 69.
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* 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 ==
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** 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]]'' 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]]''.
* A few [[In Memoriam|
** [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]]''.
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