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One more thing: don’t spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

— Gary Gygax Preface to the Oriental Adventures (1985)

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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.

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.

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.

I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

Hello Fry, it's a ... *[stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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