Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possibl… - Gary Gygax

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.

There is no intimacy; it’s not live. [he said of online games] It’s being translated through a computer, and your imagination is not there the same way it is when you’re actually together with a group of people. It reminds me of one time where I saw some children talking about whether they liked radio or television, and I asked one little boy why he preferred radio, and he said, "Because the pictures are so much better."