Joseph Laycock Quotes & Sayings

Biblow suggested that rich fantasy lives prepare children to think about different options for dealing with frustration and allow them to consider the possible consequences of these options. — Joseph Laycock

More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself. — Joseph Laycock

In an interview given at Gen Con in 2007, Gygax explained that he had been reluctant to talk about his identity as a Christian during the era of the panic: "I was afraid it would give Christianity a bad name because I did D&D."4 — Joseph Laycock

While the romantics rejected the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, many theologians accepted it and sought to frame the Bible as a set of empirical data. — Joseph Laycock

Someone in a state of flow is happy because he or she is interested in the task itself rather than an end result. — Joseph Laycock

We are narrative creatures, and stories render the world apprehensible. Narrative tells us about the world we live in and our place within it. — Joseph Laycock

An example of this is an urban legend told in some gaming circles about a gazebo. — Joseph Laycock

Like the Society for Creative Anachronism, The Ballad of the White Horse depicted "the Middle Ages as they should have been." Chesterton's ballad made a lasting impression on Robert E. Howard, who praised it in letters to his friend Clyde Smith. — Joseph Laycock

Both creators of Dungeons & Dragons were devout Christians. — Joseph Laycock

Finally, by inhabiting another world we are able to look back at our own from a new perspective. This too is a function that fantasy role-playing games share with religion. While the truth claims of religious worldviews generally cannot be proven empirically, they exert an observable influence on the way that people order their world. — Joseph Laycock