Chris Avellone Quotes

#1. I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

Chris Avellone

#2. Working with franchises can be challenging, but at the same time I really did enjoy working on 'Star Wars,' for example, and I have done a lot of 'Dungeons & Dragons' games, but I still enjoy it very much.

Chris Avellone

#3. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

Colin Blakemore

#4. Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Joyce Meyer

#5. While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.

Chris Avellone

#6. Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

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#7. The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

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#8. Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

William Shakespeare

#9. I can function without you. But I don't like being away from you. It feels like you take my home with you when you go.

Christina Lauren

#10. I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.

Chris Avellone

#11. The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today - even as the number of children has risen.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#12. On my long list of hates about RPGs, one of them was, I always felt it was an unnecessary chore to make you care about a world when, in fact, what most players care about is their own personal experience.

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#13. And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A
purpose?"
"Is Annah still wearing clothes?"
"Affirmatory."
"Then the answer is yes.

Chris Avellone

#15. Endure. In enduring, grow strong.

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#16. We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds ... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

Chris Avellone

#17. Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Mike Leigh

#18. To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it. It is something no Sith or Jedi has ever truly learned.

-- Kreia, KOTOR 2

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#19. Time is not your enemy, forever is.

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#20. What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

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#21. In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

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#22. Welcome to the real world," Inspector Dormouse says. "No one cares about anything. Each worker in the system only cares to lift the responsibility off his shoulders. Give them a good reason and promise it's all your fault when something goes wrong, and you're good to go.

Cameron Jace

#23. The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.

Rob Simmons

#24. Resistance is a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Steven Pressfield

#25. I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.

Chris Avellone