{"id":45832,"date":"2019-03-01T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=45832"},"modified":"2019-03-03T03:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T08:19:51","slug":"3-have-heroes-wont-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=45832","title":{"rendered":"#3 Have Heroes, Won&#8217;t Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><image src=\"images\/cb3.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bubblehead\" src=\"images\/cb_chuck.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bubble speech\">\n<p>The GM will often present you with obvious, obtainable goals. Under no circumstances should you attempt to complete these goals. He\u2019s planned ahead, and he knows you\u2019re coming. Make every effort to be as random and as unpredictable as possible. The relentless chaos will ensure that the GM is just as in the dark as you are.<\/p>\n<p>And then, it\u2019s just you vs. the dice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I loved making Casey\u2019s map. I lost the larger version of the file during the Great Shawn\u2019s Computer Blew Up of \u201808, so if anyone saved a copy you absolutely should share it. I\u2019m fairly sure I have the original line art somewhere, but finding it, scanning it again, and tweaking the graphics aren\u2019t high on my To Do list right now.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Fact: the comic was originally in Black &amp; White. After a week or so, we went back and reposted the first few strips in color and went on to do the rest of the comic in full color. There\u2019s a story and a moral there, but I think it will wait for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Fact #2: once the comic archive has run through it\u2019s entirety, you\u2019ll be able to play the Chainmail Bikini Drinking Game. Start with the first comic, and a case of beer. Take a sip of beer every time I drew someone talking with their mouth closed. It\u2019s a bad habit I try to avoid now, and when I look back at these strips it\u2019s just glaringly bad how no one ever opens their mouth to talk.<\/p>\n<p>As a total aside, maybe Friday I\u2019ll ramble about the fonts a bit. I still think they were a good idea for the most part, but they were certainly a dividing factor in the original audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. \u201cSmart ones\u201d. What a punchline. I was still stuck in the mode where panel 3 felt like the end of the set-up for the joke. Actually, I still feel like that pretty often.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">EDIT 2019: Yeah, this punchline still doesn&#8217;t work for me. But I like the rest of the comic. I can&#8217;t believe we lost Shawn&#8217;s map. I remember it had lots of cool little details on it.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT A FEW DAYS LATER: The map has been found! You can see it <a href=\"images\/cb_map_full.jpg\">here<\/a> in all its &#8220;huge by the standards of 2007&#8221; glory. Thanks so much to Mariusz Pociask for digging it up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45832","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\/45832","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=45832"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46110,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45832\/revisions\/46110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}