Academic Quote by Gary Gygax

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…

— 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 and deflate…

— Gary Gygax

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…

— Gary Gygax

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

— 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 rather than…

— Gary Gygax

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

— Gary Gygax

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

— Gary Gygax

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

— Gary Gygax

I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone…

— Charles Stross

Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me,…

— Neal Stephenson

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

— Lydia Millet

The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised…

— Yuji Horii

“In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with…

— Ernest Cline

I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially with the…

— Felicia Day

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game…

— Anonymous