{"id":1265,"date":"2007-08-06T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2007-08-06T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:00:28","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-cxxxia-profound-lack-of-swooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings CXXXI:<BR\/>A Profound Lack of Swooning"},"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_lotr131a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Hail to the king, baby!' title='Hail to the king, baby!'\/><\/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_lotr131b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Gimli is sitting on Aragorn&#8217;s throne!' title='Gimli is sitting on Aragorn&#8217;s throne!'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Even the most greedy and cynical gamer is willing to roleplay once they are the center of attention.  That is, they are willing to roleplay when it&#8217;s difficult or impossible for anyone else to roleplay along.<\/p>\n<p>Which explains why the DM is always so eager for a chance to kill them off.<\/p>\n<p>Which explains why players are always trying to twink out their stats and build characters of ridiculous power.<\/p>\n<p>Which explains why they get so uppity in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Which explains why the DM wants to kill them so bad.<\/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-1265","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\/1265","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=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}