Gary Gygax

"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 durin…"

"While it is possible to play a single game, unrelated to any other game events past or future, it is the campaign for which these rules are designed. It is relatively simple to set up a fantasy campai…"

"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 think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I w…"

"There is no intimacy; it’s not live. It’s being translated through a computer, and your imagination is not there the same way it is when you’re actually together with a group of people. It reminds me …"

"In many ways I still resent the wretched yellow journalism that was clearly evident in treatment of the game — 60 Minutes in particular. I've never watched that show after Ed Bradley's interview with …"

"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."

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