"If we were always to judge from reality, games would be nonsense. But it games were nonsense, what else would there be left to do." Leo Tolstoy (Opie & Opie, 1969, p. 338)
"Games can be fun to play, and fun alone is the approved reason for playing them." (Goffman, 1961, p. 17) from "Fun in Games"
"Gary Gygax believed friendship to be a sacred bond and blessing. As one who created games for aliving, he understood gaming to be a means of fellowship, and he gave the topic a fair amount of study and contemplation. He would speak affectionately of an essay about friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson that he read in his beloved "Little Leather Library," bequeatehed to him by his chess-loving grandfather. Emerson's "Essay VI: Friendship" explains, "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one...The essence of frienship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust." Emerson would expound on this topic in his memoirs: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." These words well articulate not only the general concept of friendship, but specifically the sort of bonds formed through gaming." Michael Witwer(2015, p. 224)
"I write mainly because I have so much information inside I just have to...The main 'no-no' I have is not to ignore an urge to write. Ideas are ephemeral, slip away too quickly, so when the muse is there, go like hell." Gary Gygax (Witwer, 2015, p. 98)
"Games can be fun to play, and fun alone is the approved reason for playing them." (Goffman, 1961, p. 17) from "Fun in Games"
"Gary Gygax believed friendship to be a sacred bond and blessing. As one who created games for aliving, he understood gaming to be a means of fellowship, and he gave the topic a fair amount of study and contemplation. He would speak affectionately of an essay about friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson that he read in his beloved "Little Leather Library," bequeatehed to him by his chess-loving grandfather. Emerson's "Essay VI: Friendship" explains, "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one...The essence of frienship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust." Emerson would expound on this topic in his memoirs: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." These words well articulate not only the general concept of friendship, but specifically the sort of bonds formed through gaming." Michael Witwer(2015, p. 224)
"I write mainly because I have so much information inside I just have to...The main 'no-no' I have is not to ignore an urge to write. Ideas are ephemeral, slip away too quickly, so when the muse is there, go like hell." Gary Gygax (Witwer, 2015, p. 98)