7 Gary Gygax Quotes on Gaming

Gary Gygax quotes on gaming

2. Hello Fry, it's a ... [stops mid-sentence, throws a twenty sided die] pleasure to meet you.

4. 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.

9. 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.

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

14. A DM only rolls the dice because of the noise they make.

16. 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.

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