{"id":1080,"date":"2007-04-13T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2007-04-13T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T16:01:01","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-lxxxviihack-and-also-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings LXXXVII:<br\/>Hack, and Also Slash"},"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_lotr87a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Aragorn takes his turn.' title='Aragorn takes his turn.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><!--more--><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr87b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Aragorn takes his turn.. eventually.' title='Aragorn takes his turn.. eventually.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Being a turn-based game, D&#038;D allows the player to ponder their every move and the ramifications thereof for as long as they need to, provided they have the real-life charisima to convince everyone else to wait.  Studying possible moves is one of the most fun parts of the game (when you&#8217;re doing it) but also one of the most annoying and tiresome (when other people are doing it) and so care must be taken by the DM to ensure that in-game combat does not produce actual, real-life combat. <\/p>\n<p><small>Side note: Boy, the JPG-ing was brutal to the ASCII characters in the Nethack frame.  The blue mishmash really is supposed to be &#8220;O&#8221; (living orcs) and &#8220;%&#8221; (dead ones).  I fussed around with it but couldn&#8217;t get it to look right without re-cutting the whole page to make the characters fill more of the frame.  Bah.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.  Close enough.  People that can get the joke will still get it, and those that can&#8217;t get the joke aren&#8217;t going to be helped by clear ASCII art.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-1080","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\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}