Gary Gygax Quotes

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• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion…
• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
• As a typically ambitious player, I did what all others of that ilk do: Everything I could do to gain advantage for my PCs and…
• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.
• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are…
• Games give you a chance to excel...
• Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?
• When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.
• Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.
• Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another…
• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of…
• I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
• I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
• If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.
• Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest…

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