{"id":55210,"date":"2023-02-19T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55210"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:06:39","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-lets-go-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55210","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster: Let\u2019s go Shopping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_page-8.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=639\">Remember, nothing will spice up your campaign quicker than long descriptions of NPC\u2019s doing spectacular stuff while the players sit around and watch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Shamus, Wednesday Sep 20, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI think the trick is to get your players deeply <em>invested<\/em> in your NPCs and THEN give them spectacular slow-mo shots and action.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, your players will never get attached to your super cool assassin with an impossible-to-pronounce name and impeccable ass. Your players want Grunkle, the goblin warlock you named on the fly, who won&#8217;t stop trying to kill them (and also likes shiny rocks).<\/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\/allons-faire-les-boutiques.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Remember, nothing will spice up your campaign quicker than long descriptions of NPC\u2019s doing spectacular stuff while the players sit around and watch. &#8211;\u00a0 Shamus, Wednesday Sep 20, 2006<\/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-55210","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\/55210","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=55210"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55285,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55210\/revisions\/55285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}