Mastering the Game, by Gary Gygax

[Quasqueton]

I remember reading/owning a copy of a book by Gary Gygax titled something like Mastering the Game. Maybe Master of the Game. Maybe something else. I've tried searching my local library's catalog for it, but can't find it. I'd search ebay for it, but searching by author doesn't find it.

Anyone know the title of this book? Suggestions as to where I might find a copy? I'd love to have it on my bookshelf.

Edit: adding EGG's name to thread title might get faster/more reponses.

Thanks.

Quasqueton

 

[Shallown]

9. Gygax, Gary. "Role-Playing Mastery: Tips, Tactics and Strategies", Grafton Books, London 1989. (ISBN: 0399512934)
This book explores the nature of roleplaying games, and defines a number of distinctions about types and styles of games. It's distinctions are different than many later writers, and often specific to D&D, which Gary Gygax was an author of.


hope that helps

I have read it. An interesting read but he seemed to want you to dedicate a heck of a lot to "Master" the game. Me... I'm just to lazy.

later

 

[grodog]

Master of the Game was the other title in the two-part series that EGG wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_3/102-3734659-4754561?v=glance&s=books

 

[frankthedm]

Mine in IL, USA

Master of the game
Gygax, Gary.

Publisher: Perigee,
Pub date: 1989.
Pages: 174 p.
ISBN: 039951533X
Copy info: 1 copy available at Romeoville - Fountaindale Public Library District.
1 copy total in all locations.

Holdings
Romeoville - Fountaindale Public Library District
Copy Material Location
793.93 GYG 1 BOOK Nonfiction Area


Title: Master of the game Author: Gygax, Gary

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[Tinner]

Wow!
I'm dying to know how you got that listing for ALL those libraries??
That would be such a useful tool!

Care to share the wealth?

 

[Quasqueton]

Unfortunately, the Wake county (NC) library's copy of the book has "been lost for years".

Maybe I'll order it through Amazon's secondary sources.

Quasqueton

 

[Henry]

These two books were how I knew that Gary was not the supposed "anti-roleplayer/massive powergamer" that detractors made him out to be. There is some excellent RP suggestions in those books, as well as the amusing story of why he never put firearms in his games on a regular basis.

Basically, he said that it goes against the flavor of the genre to do such. As much as his players would think it was because he couldn't challenge them, it was because he wanted to preserve the flavor of the stories he enjoyed as a kid - even though he secretly would love nothing more than hordes of Uzi-wielding kobolds mowing down rambunctious PC's.

 

[Style]

My cousin had this book - I remember reading it a few years back. It was a breeze to read and was a pretty inspirational read. I recall one chapter where Gary casually trots out a simple 2d6 system to illustrate a point he was making. That little, one-paragraph system could do just about anything. Amazing stuff.

 

[MonsterMash]

I read the Role Playing Mastery book recently as one of my group had picked it up in a second hand store for about 50p or something. It's pretty good in the classic Gygax writing style.