Ben Riggs > Quotes

“Cheese pizza is a fine thing, no doubt, but the addition of pepperoni makes it into something totally different—namely, a pepperoni pizza—and a pepperoni pizza is not the same as a cheese pizza, for it has pepperoni. These things are not the same. Unalike. Dissimilar. Two entirely separate and distinct Platonic categories. One titled cheese pizza. The other entitled pepperoni pizza.”
― Ben Riggs, Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

“My experience growing up as a nerd was that role-playing games were an outsider hobby played by dorks, dweebs, freak machines, poindexters, and every stripe of pencil-necked geeks. In other words, my tribe.”
― Ben Riggs, Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons