{"id":55219,"date":"2023-02-26T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55219"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:07:12","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-a-tearful-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55219","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster: A Tearful Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, black dragons are powerful. So are level-20 fireballs, demi-gods, and huge mythic beasts. But there is no force in the game as powerful as the combined selfishness and apathy of your players.<\/a><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Shamus, Friday Sep 22, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nI think thoroughly that I am in an entirely different D&D community than that of my father, or his time. I don’t know if times have changed, or if the queer neurospicy side of the community is different(maybe my table is weird). I can’t get<\/em> my players to quit having an over-abundance of empathy.\u00a0 I will never forget the season that was completely eaten by a group of my players becoming enraptured by the culture of a NPC they’d never met. They just sat for a full four real life hours<\/em> asking her to tell stories while she made them the custom tapestry they ordered.<\/p>\n

That isn’t to say both types don’t have merit, though. My all-time favorite movie Dorkness Rising would be nothing at all if the players weren’t apathetic murder hobos.<\/p>\n

This weeks <\/span>French comic can be read\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, black dragons are powerful. So are level-20 fireballs, demi-gods, and huge mythic beasts. But there is no force in the game as powerful as the combined selfishness and apathy of your players. –\u00a0 Shamus, Friday Sep 22, 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-55219","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\/55219","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=55219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55286,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55219\/revisions\/55286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}