{"id":28605,"date":"2015-09-17T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28605"},"modified":"2015-09-17T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T21:58:21","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep11-swoop-there-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28605","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP11: Swoop, There it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGE_Nq0GrfU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qGE_Nq0GrfU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd to come back to this game after so many years. Watching Josh fiddle with the level-up choices, I can remember struggling with decisions that seem obvious now. The whole D20 thing was largely opaque to me, since it had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=13204\">almost twenty years since the last time I had contact with that sort of game<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>BioWare went from these number-crunchy tabletop adaptations where understanding D20 mechanics is almost a prerequisite<span class='snote' title='1'>The only saving grace is that the games tend to be easy. If the game required a competent build, I never would have made it through.<\/span>, to &#8220;baby&#8217;s first RPG&#8221;, which is just industry-standard action gameplay with a very mild dose of stat-boosting built in. Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I feel like they sailed right past the sweet spot without ever hitting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s odd to come back to this game after so many years. Watching Josh fiddle with the level-up choices, I can remember struggling with decisions that seem obvious now. The whole D20 thing was largely opaque to me, since it had been almost twenty years since the last time I had contact with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[84,513],"class_list":["post-28605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioware","tag-kotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605","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=28605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}