{"id":55383,"date":"2023-04-02T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55383"},"modified":"2023-04-16T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:05:32","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xii-lets-not-go-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55383","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XIII: Let\u2019s Not go There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_page-14.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=673\">This is, of course, the most pervasive problem in D&amp;D, and one which the rules have never addressed. The tension of many battles has been ruined by some smart-alec suggesting they use the Holy Hand Grenade. No fortress \u2013 no matter how impressive or dangerous \u2013 will ever seem foreboding after one of the players points out that, \u201cIt\u2019s only a model\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My own suggestion for the\u00a04.0 edition rules:\u00a0<em>Anyone who quotes Holy Grail during a session should be made to eat their own character sheet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0 Shamus, Wednesday Oct 4, 2006<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100 border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 dark:bg-gray-800\">\n<div class=\"text-base gap-4 md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-xl xl:max-w-3xl p-4 md:py-6 flex lg:px-0 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap\">\n<p>A word of warning to nerds everywhere: if you <em>make<\/em> your children watch all those nerd references too early in life and with the pressure of &#8216;learning important cultural material&#8217;, you will do yourself a disservice.\u00a0 Not only will you have a six-year-old running around obsessed with saying &#8216;spam&#8217; over and over, and quoting Jar Jar Binks like he&#8217;s the peak of comedy, but they may grow up and have little to no appreciation for those nerd references that you love, directly going against what you were trying to cultivate in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>TLDR; I am horrible at being a nerd, and don&#8217;t actually like Monty Python, it was pretty beyond me when I saw it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, of course, the most pervasive problem in D&amp;D, and one which the rules have never addressed. The tension of many battles has been ruined by some smart-alec suggesting they use the Holy Hand Grenade. No fortress \u2013 no matter how impressive or dangerous \u2013 will ever seem foreboding after one of the players [&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-55383","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\/55383","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=55383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55433,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55383\/revisions\/55433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}