David Given Schwarm

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Tag: Quote

  • PATRICK CHAPIN


    Encouraging people to make incorrect guesses actually makes the group as a whole smarter. Quantity and variety are actually better for the group than focusing on quality.


  • Thor Heyerdahl


    Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

  • Shirley Hazzard

    art is the only afterlife of which we have evidence

  • Mike Mearls



    We’re equal opportunity cheesecake merchants

    Very interesting article on the Art of D&D. I really liked this part:

    The Yuan-Ti Pit Master, is long-haired, hard-bodied and undeniably sexy.

    Really? “Undeniably”?

    to each their own, I guess…

  • Antonio Machado

    “Caminante no hay camino / se hace camino al andar.”



    “Walker, there is no path / the path is made by walking.”


  • Chris Perkins Wins Twitter


    As a DM, how do you deal with a rules lawyer that disrupts the game to argue?


    I would say, “You find a potion of shut-the-f*ck-up. Would you like to drink it?

  • Don DeLillo

    I don’t know what I think about certain subjects until I sit down and try to write about them.



    I think that this is universally true when it comes to feelings. I have absolutely no idea what I think about my feelings until I sit down and try to write about them. And trying can really be the challange–seldom does the answer come while writing–it generally comes much later…



  • Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

     I think the idea that women might fancy good-looking, well-adjusted men who are nice to them is too much for the average fantasy-head to bear.

  • Jacques Derrida

    To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

  • R A Salvatore

    The only thing worse then a psychotic demonic destroyer

    is a deluded psychotic demonic destroyer.