{"id":55356,"date":"2023-03-26T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55356"},"modified":"2023-04-16T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:05:46","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xii-npc-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55356","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XII: NPC Non Grata"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some notes about writing a campaign:<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. It\u2019s great that you took the time to come up with \u201cCount Devron Masuvius Beldamor the III, High Magester of the Realms of Greeenwood\u201d, but you need to realize that the players are just going to refer to him as \u201cthat wizard guy\u201d, or simply, \u201cMister fancy-pants\u201d.<\/li>\n
  2. If you send along a high-level NPC of great majesty and power to accompany the party, you need to realize that the players will treat this character like a bazooka: The NPC will become a weapon used to solve a problem in the bloodiest and most expedient manner possible, and then discarded without ceremony.<\/li>\n
  3. You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to\u00a0meet girls<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    –\u00a0 Shamus, Monday Oct 2, 2006<\/p>\n

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    Hah, switch out ‘unsightly men’ for ‘useless bisexuals’ and otherwise, yup, that could entirely describe my table. The first point is so bad in my case that my little elven fella canonically has a birth defect induced speech impediment, making him unable to pronounce any long flowery names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some notes about writing a campaign: It\u2019s great that you took the time to come up with \u201cCount Devron Masuvius Beldamor the III, High Magester of the Realms of Greeenwood\u201d, but you need to realize that the players are just going to refer to him as \u201cthat wizard guy\u201d, or simply, \u201cMister fancy-pants\u201d. If you […]<\/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-55356","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\/55356","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=55356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55434,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55356\/revisions\/55434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}