Gary Gygax Quotes

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

Women, Men, Design

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

Experience, Game, Group

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

Experience, Yourself, Character

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

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

Good, Play, Group

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
Gary Gygax

School, Discipline, Hated

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

Home, Risk, Office

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Gary Gygax

Risk, Gut, Instincts

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

Time, Children, Made

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

Another, Able, Escape

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

Life, Chance, Everybody

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

Game, Master, Directing

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

Game, Real, Fire

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

Humanity, Adventure, Call

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

Experience, Play, Picture

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 27, 1938

Died: March 4, 2008

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