Gary Gygax Quotes

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

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

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

The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

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

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

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

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Games give you a chance to excel.

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

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

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

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

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 as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

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.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.