Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.