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

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.

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.

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.

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

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.