List of Gary Gygax Quotes

I Wasn't Popular In The Home Office Because I Wasn't Chicken. I'm Just A Risk Taker. I Have Gut Instincts.

I Hated School, Didn't Like The Discipline.

I'm Just A Risk Taker. I Have Gut Instincts.

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 Getting Dressed Up And Going Out To See A Live Play. In The Same Way, The Computer Is A More Immediately Accessible Way To Play Games.

I Think A Lot Of What I Was Taught, Gathered, And Learned Is Worth Keeping. Heritage And "wisdom" And Simply Personal Family And Local History Enrich The One Able To Tap Such Information. As It Is I Wish I Had Garnered More From My Grandparents And Parents.

Some Of The Roots Of Role-playing Games (rpgs) Are Grounded In Clinical And Academic Role Assumption And Role-playing Exercises.

I Foresee Online Gaming Changing When There Are Good Audio-visual Links Connecting The Participants, Thus Approximating Play In A Face-to-face Group.

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.

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 Rise In Level As Rapidly As Possible.

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 As Real As The Gold. Try Retiring On That Stuff.

The Idea That A Game Is Anything More Than A Game... You Know, There Are People Who Are Basically Unbalanced Who Are Going To Misuse A Game And Have Bad Results. If A Golfer Who Insists On Playing During A Lightning Storm Gets Hit By A Stroke Of Lightning And Is Killed Nobody Says, 'there's Golfers Dying By The Droves Being Hit By Lightning!' You Can Overdo What You Really Like, And If You're Unbalanced You Go Overboard.

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 'being There,' Any More Than Seeing A Theatrical Motion Picture Can Replace The Stage Play.