{"id":46857,"date":"2019-08-16T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46857"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:09:10","slug":"49-melodrama-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46857","title":{"rendered":"#49 Melodrama, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Original Text: (From Shawn, believe it or not!)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1: You have undoubtably heard by now, Gary Gygax passed away this week. There are tributes and references all over the net, but I think Order of the Stick did it best. If you find yourself with some free time, you should celebrate Gary Con Around The World.<\/p>\n

2: I\u2019ll be at Fear the Con this Saturday, along with our gracious hosts from Fear the Boot. If you\u2019re within driving distance of St. Louis, you owe it to yourself to come see us. I\u2019ll be running a Savage Worlds Chainmail Bikini adventure. I promise to have an update next week on how it went. I\u2019ll also be running a World of Darkness mortals game, and my goal will be to scare the crap out of all of my players. Sadly, both of my games are full, but you can always watch in awe.<\/p>\n

3: There may be an extended hiatus in the future for Chainmail Bikini. You\u2019ve likely noticed the update schedule has been somewhat erratic since the new year. I\u2019ve moved into the exciting world of home ownership, which is also the exciting world of \u201cGreat Googeley Moogely How In The Crap Are We Going To Pay For All This And Still Buy Food?!?!\u201d Due to this, I might need to take a break from drawing the web comics, to focus on the exciting world of Making Money To Pay The Bills.<\/p>\n

If and when a hiatus is necessary, we\u2019ll let you guys know well in advance, and leave the comic at a satisfying place for a pause. We might not have a break, but if we do Shamus and I wanted you, the loyal reader, to know about it in advance.<\/p>\n

Later, and have a great weekend!<\/p>\n

Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah. That original text. As timeless as ever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been interesting following the reactions to Steve. People disliked him intensely for attempting to sell Ramgar\u2019s spear. So much so that this injustice overshadowed the actual joke \u2013 which was the absurdity (and visual fun) of seeing a character change players. People were mad at Steve for attempting to sell the spear, at Casey for allowing it, and at me for writing it.<\/p>\n

I think one of the benefits of DM of the Rings was that everyone already knew the plot. They KNEW Gandalf wouldn\u2019t stay dead, that Aragorn was going to be king, and that Gimli would get a big fat bag of nothing for all his efforts. Everyone knew where we were going, so the fun was in discovering how we got there and what was said along the way. Everyone knew who got shafted, so there wasn\u2019t any sense of betrayal when it happened.<\/p>\n

But here the audience didn\u2019t have a sense of where this was going. The plot was more important, and arcs like this one brought it to a halt.<\/p>\n

The \u201cget screwed by someone running your character\u201d is a tabletop trope as old as the game itself. There\u2019s a lot of absurdity that we players just gloss over when it happens, and so there\u2019s a lot of fun to be had with the idea. Maybe it would have helped to telegraph that everything would be okay in the end. Maybe I just needed to ride it out and wrap it up, knowing that all would be forgiven when we reached the outcome.<\/p>\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-46857","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\/46857","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=46857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46860,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46857\/revisions\/46860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}