{"id":55575,"date":"2023-06-18T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55575"},"modified":"2023-06-17T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T16:27:18","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-xxiv-loot-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55575","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XXIV: Loot of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-25 (1).png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=721\">Is the loot valuable or not? The price tag is meaningless. It\u2019s all in how you describe it. Take a page from the home shopping channel, where no item is too mundane to be praised.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=721\">It\u2019s not a \u201csmall figurine\u201d. It\u2019s a \u201cbeautiful, hand-crafted figurine of a water nymph\u201d. Yes, this seems silly. Of\u00a0<em>course<\/em>\u00a0it\u2019s hand-crafted.\u00a0<em>Everything<\/em>\u00a0is in a pre-industrial world. I\u2019m telling you: It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s not worth two coppers and weighs as much as a brick, your players will\u00a0<em>fight<\/em>\u00a0over that figurine if you make it sound exciting.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 Shamus, Wednesday Nov 1, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWoo! Moved on from last week&#8217;s nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I disagree with the &#8216;store credit&#8217; argument. You&#8217;ll never find a shopkeeper with that much on hand, so to accept store credit would be like passing on a curse. Instead, you find a shopkeeper in a huge city with a large stock, preferably including several bags of holding. You trade it to him for store credit, and instead of the incredibly valuable mithril shirt, you now have every low level dumb item ever to imagine. You give him the shirt and dump every single thing he&#8217;s selling into the bags of holding. He gets to go find some sucker willing to buy the shirt off of him, and you walk away with a store in your inventory.<\/p>\n<p>Need a rope? Caltrops?\u00a0 Healing potion? Waterskin? Rations? Thieves&#8217; tools? A lute? Weighted dice? Commoner&#8217;s clothes? An apple? A notebook? A fountain pen? A jar of Skippy peanut butter? You&#8217;ve got it. A billion gold is great, but nowhere near as awesome as having access to every basic item at any given moment.<\/p>\n<p>My DM has a love\/hate relationship with my ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the loot valuable or not? The price tag is meaningless. It\u2019s all in how you describe it. Take a page from the home shopping channel, where no item is too mundane to be praised. It\u2019s not a \u201csmall figurine\u201d. It\u2019s a \u201cbeautiful, hand-crafted figurine of a water nymph\u201d. Yes, this seems silly. Of\u00a0course\u00a0it\u2019s hand-crafted.\u00a0Everything\u00a0is [&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-55575","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\/55575","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=55575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55578,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55575\/revisions\/55578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}