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Dungeons Quote by Gary Gygax

“Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.” quote by Gary Gygax — Download Open image

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

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

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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,…

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The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

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Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.

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I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the…

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How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

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I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest…

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