Gary Gygax

“Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore…

— Gary Gygax

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

— Gary Gygax

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

— Gary Gygax

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

— Gary Gygax

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head…

— Gary Gygax

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

— Gary Gygax

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because…

— Gary Gygax

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

— Gary Gygax

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

— Gary Gygax

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his…

— Gary Gygax

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

— Gary Gygax

The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are…

— Gary Gygax

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax

Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV…

— Gary Gygax

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a…

— Gary Gygax

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

— Gary Gygax

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever…

— Gary Gygax

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

— Gary Gygax

The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on…

— Gary Gygax

You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there…

— Gary Gygax

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

— Gary Gygax

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells…

— Gary Gygax

“Even the most outspoken of the critics must admit that long before we had print and film media to "spread the word,"…

— Gary Gygax

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell…

— Gary Gygax

As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for…

— Gary Gygax