{"id":1209,"date":"2007-06-22T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2007-06-25T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:38:25","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-cxvibut-they-dont-fit-in-my-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings CXVI:<br\/>But They Don&#8217;t Fit in My Backpack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr116a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Aragorn orders the boats destroyed.' title='Aragorn orders the boats destroyed.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr116b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='What could he possibly use boats for?' title='What could he possibly use boats for?'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>What can you do when your players are about to do something astoundingly dumb because they aren&#8217;t thinking things through?  There are many possible solutions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use an NPC to nudge the players in the right direction.\n<\/li>\n<li>Give the players hints out-of-character.\n<\/li>\n<li>Allow them to do the stupid thing, then laugh at them later.\n<\/li>\n<li>Find smarter players.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>#4 is obviously the wrong answer.  Having players smart enough to outwit you is a tremendous pain in the backside. Don&#8217;t make that mistake.<\/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-1209","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\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}