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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.

The Essence Of A Role-playing Game Is That It Is A Group, Cooperative Experience.

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.

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.

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 Agents Or Whatever Else. You Get To Sort Of Vicariously Experience Those Things.