Gary Gygax Quotes

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

  Gary Gygax

  Secret, Needs, Should

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

  Gary Gygax

  Magic, World, Facts

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

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  Opportunity, Player, Worthy

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• 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.

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  Playing Games, Giving, Mind

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 15, 2004.

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• You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.

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  Adventure, Land, Giving

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

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  Play, Random Chance, Chance

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• 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 another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

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  Player, Playing Games, Goal

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

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  Playing Games, Essence, Groups

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 05, 2008.

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• 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.

  Gary Gygax

  Character, Winning, Games

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Dungeons, Role Playing

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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

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  Dragons, Years, Play

  "Fictional character: Gary Gygax". TV Series "Futurama"("Anthology of Interest I", 2000), 1999-2013.

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

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  Reading, Play, Too Much

  Preface to his book "Oriental Adventures", 1985.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Playing Games, Guy

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 16, 2004.

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

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  Blood, Sweat, Tears

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Games

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• 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.

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  Encouragement, Children, Suggestions

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• Games give you a chance to excel.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Giving, Chance

  "Gary Gygax Interview - Part I". Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. Aug 15, 2004.

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

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  Role Playing, Roles, Leisure

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Games

  "Gary Gygax Interview - Part 2". Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. Aug 16, 2004.

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

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  Travel, Adventure, Humanity

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• 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 it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

  Gary Gygax

  Art, Games, Rpgs

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• 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.

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  Running, Moving, Rpgs

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• 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.

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  Games, Ideas, People

  "Gary Gygax Interview - Part I". Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. Aug 15, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Player, Ambitious, Levels

  "What's in a Name?". Dragon Magazine, No. 318, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Real, Fire, Dragons

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