Occupation: Writer Birth: July 27, 1938 Death: March 4, 2008
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 mag….
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 ….
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, w….
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 ….
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience..
Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one anoth….
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by t….
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!.
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..
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 satisfa….
Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!.
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life..
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 fema….
Games give you a chance to excel..
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group..
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not r….
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 rapidl….
Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?.
The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own..
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game..
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males..