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Gary Gygax Biography

Ernest Gary Gygax (/ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GY-gaks; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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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.

Games, Ideas, People, Golfer, Lightning, Overboard

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

Playing Games, Essence, Groups, Game, Experience, Group

Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

Accessible, Games, People, Play, Television

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.

Dragons, Fire, Real, Stuff, Threw

Games give you a chance to excel.

Chance, Excel, Games, Give, Giving

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.

Art, Artfully, Games, Rpgs, Satisfaction, Way

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

Chance, Huge, Life, Play, Random Chance

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Discipline, Hated, Like, School

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Exercise, Playing Games, Rpgs, Academic, Assumption

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

Blood, Sweat, Tears, Destined

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

Dragons, Play, Wanna, Years

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.

Running, Moving, Rpgs, Stage, Play, Intelligence

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.

Fun, Playing Games, Guy, Remember, Pastimes

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

Role Playing, Roles, Leisure, Activity, Become, Peerless

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

Magic, World, Facts, Fantastic

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.

Adventure, Breathe, Courageous, Giving, Land, Master

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

Opportunity, Player, Worthy, Kills, Presents, Opportunities

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

Gut, Gut Instinct, Instinct, Instincts, Risk, Taker

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.

Player, Ambitious, Levels, Ilk, Possible

Home, Instincts, Office, Popular, Risk

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