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 during the course of the game. - Quotaroni

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 during the course of the game.

More Gary Gygax Quotes

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

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

- Gary Gygax
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.

- Gary Gygax
If your brain is not engaged, you are not really playing a game; you are merely following the motions.

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

- Gary Gygax