{"id":1032,"date":"2007-03-19T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2007-03-19T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T16:00:32","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-lxxviian-important-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings LXXVII:<br\/>An Important Distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr77.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='One ale or three?' title='One ale or three?'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I tried making a classic &#8220;gag&#8221; strip. It worked!  Not only are you getting less jokes, but I&#8217;m doing way less work! It&#8217;s almost a win-win scenario.  Well halfway, anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t add much to the stuff on sparse loot.  The idea has become a sort of zombie joke at this point.  It just keeps getting back up, no matter how dead it is.   Sooner or later a cleric is going to cast turning on my loot jokes and half of my material will be obliterated in a blinding flash of holy, humorless light.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the next joke needs to be Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas standing on a corner with a crude cardboard sign, &#8220;Will fight Sauron for food.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried making a classic &#8220;gag&#8221; strip. It worked! Not only are you getting less jokes, but I&#8217;m doing way less work! It&#8217;s almost a win-win scenario. Well halfway, anyhow. I can&#8217;t add much to the stuff on sparse loot. The idea has become a sort of zombie joke at this point. It just keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}