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Gary Gygax Quotes

American - Inventor | July 27, 1938 - March 4, 2008

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Life Random Chance Everybody Part

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Character Experience Yourself Losing

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.

Fire Gold Game Magic Copy Said

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 made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

Children Time Behavior Learn Pretend

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

Rules Know Never Secret Need Should

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

Experience Game Group Essence

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Discipline School Like Hated

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

Game Storytelling Master Directing

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 a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

Women Men Game Think Thinking

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Adventure Humanity Call Something

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.

People Think Thrive Escape Outside

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

Good Gaming Play Group Face-To-Face

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