Gary Gygax Quotes

• 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.

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Dungeons, Dragons, Fire, Game

• 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 agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Imagination, Yourself, Character

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

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Game, Cooperative

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

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Random, Chance

• 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.

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Gaming, Designed, Thinking, Processes

• 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.

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Cultures, Societies

• 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.

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in People, Entertainment, Escape

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

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Self, Popularity

• 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.

  Gary Gygax

  Topics in Experience, Intelligence

  Tags in Machine, Ourselves

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

  Gary Gygax

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Adventure

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

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Game, Masters, Secret

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

  Gary Gygax

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  Tags in Online, Gaming, Participants

Gary Gygax (12)

Birth:	27th July, 1938
Death:	4th March, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Game Designer, Writer

About

Ernest Gary Gygax was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American game designer and writer best known for co-creating with Dave Arneson the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax has been described as the father of D&D. He wrote several books include: Saga of Old City(novel), The Keep on the Borderlands(novel), Against the Giants(novel), Come Endless Darkness(novel), The Samarkand Solution(novel), Infernal Sorceress(novel), Player's Handbook, and Dungeonland.

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