{"id":55193,"date":"2023-02-12T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:05:42","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-lootless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55193","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster: Lootless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-7.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=617\">On one hand, it makes no sense for the monsters and encounter areas of the gameworld to come pre-stocked with loot. It also makes no sense for feral beasts and the shambling undead to walk around carrying fabulous cash prizes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=617\">On the other hand, gold coins are shiny and make a fun jingling sound when you have lots of them.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Shamus, Monday Sep 18, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I like to offer up things that seem useless in such a way that my players think it might be important later on. No loot? Consider, my dear players, you&#8217;re surrounded by old stones. Look! Three are even cut off from the wall, separate from the others! The plays get to feel a sense of accomplishment in the moment, and it leads to one of two of equally amazing outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>One, the player finds themselves three plotlines later actually needing the damned things and gasping at how far ahead I planned for them, amazing and unmatched writing skills! How did you do that?! I didn&#8217;t know you&#8217;d written that far ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Two, the player realizes three plotlines later they are carrying trash around and laugh at themselves, wondering why and where the hell they picked up three blasted rocks. And, you, the DM, get to giggle to yourself being the one who gave it to them in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>What is D&amp;D, really, if not a chance to gaslight your friends and family?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This weeks <\/span>French comic can be read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmoftheringsfr.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/bredouilles.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one hand, it makes no sense for the monsters and encounter areas of the gameworld to come pre-stocked with loot. It also makes no sense for feral beasts and the shambling undead to walk around carrying fabulous cash prizes. On the other hand, gold coins are shiny and make a fun jingling sound when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dm-of-the-rings-remaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55284,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions\/55284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}