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Bigby is an archmage in the fictional ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Before the Greyhawk Wars, Bigby made his home in Scant, capital of Onnwal. In the current setting, he can often be found in Mitrik, Veluna. His personal symbol is an open palm behind a large, stylized bumblebee. ==Creative origins== Bigby was created by Rob Kuntz as a low-level non-player character evil wizard in the early dungeons of Greyhawk in 1973. Gary Gygax's character, the wizard Mordenkainen, encountered Bigby. The two wizards engaged in combat, and Mordenkainen managed to subdue Bigby using a ''charm'' spell, and forced Bigby to become his servant. Kuntz ruled that Bigby would be Mordenkainen's servant as long as he remained under the ''charm'' spell, but until Gygax, through roleplaying, had won Bigby's loyalty, the evil wizard would remain a non-player character under Kuntz's control. After a long time and several adventures, Mordenkainen managed to convince Bigby to leave his evil ways behind, and Kuntz ruled that it was safe to remove the ''charm'' spell, since Bigby had changed from an enemy to a loyal henchman; therefore Gygax could use Bigby as a player character.〔Gygax: "Mordenkainen was adventuring in Rob's dungeon when he surprised a 3rd level magic-user of Evil persuation. Mordie's ''charm'' spell worked on that worthy, whose name turned out to be Bigby. By dint of fellowship, lecturing, mentoring, and sharing with Bigby, he was not only turned from () to Neutral, but from there to a leaning towards () as he considered his past actions." 〕〔Q: "I heard a story which made it sound like Bigy was an NPC that you charmed and () later became your PC." Gygax: "Mordenkainen did indeed manage to get the drop on Bigby, () charm him. At the time Bigby was a 3rd-level () dungeon dweller. By word and deen Mordie brought him around from () to (), and thus Bigby became his apprentice. I got to roll the stats for that character after Rob () determined he was a loyal henchman of Mordenkainen." 〕 For a time after this, Kuntz ruled that all the names of Mordenkainen's future henchmen had to rhyme with Bigby. This resulted in Zigby the dwarf; Rigby the cleric; Sigby Griggbyson the fighter; Bigby's apprentice, Nigby; and Digby, who eventually replaced Bigby as Mordenkainen's new apprentice. Thereafter, Gygax developed Bigby into a powerful wizard second only to Mordenkainen, and eventually Bigby became one of the original members of Gygax's Circle of Eight, a group of adventurers made up of eight of Gygax's own characters. When Gygax wrote TSR's ''AD&D Players Handbook'', he borrowed Bigby's name to describe a series of "hand" spells (''Bigby's crushing hand'', ''Bigby's grasping hand'', etc.). This custom continued on in later versions of D&D, with over two dozen "hand" spells eventually ascribed to Bigby. When Gygax was forced out of TSR in 1985, he lost the rights to most of his characters, including Mordenkainen and Bigby.〔Gygax: "Anagrams of my name are exclusively my property according to my settlement agreement with TSR, so that is how I can use Zagyg, or Zagig, as well as Yrag."〕 Bigby is one of the famous mages of the Greyhawk setting whose spells were included in the 1988 ''Greyhawk Adventures'' hardbound. Bigby was reintroduced as a member of a repurposed Circle of Eight in 1989 in ''The City of Greyhawk'' boxed set, where he appeared as part of a cabal of nine wizards who sought to balance the forces of Good and Evil in the world.〔Niles, Douglas, and Carl Sargent. ''The City of Greyhawk'' (TSR, 1989)〕 He also appeared in the adventure ''Vecna Lives!'', where he was temporarily killed by an ancient warlord armed with the ''hand and eye of Vecna''.〔Cook, David. ''Vecna Lives!'' (TSR, 1990)〕 When TSR decided to reboot the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting in 1991, Carl Sargent moved the storyline of the setting forward a decade to 585 CY, the year after the end of a continental war called the Greyhawk Wars. By this time, Bigby had returned to life via the agency of a ''clone'' spell, and was once again a member of the Circle, now known as the Circle of Five after the deaths of Tenser and Otiluke and the treason and departure of Rary. Bigby remained a potent character in subsequent versions of the Greyhawk setting, which updated the storyline to 591 CY. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bigby (Greyhawk)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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