{"id":55988,"date":"2023-08-27T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55988"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:46:31","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-xxxiv-lets-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55988","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XXXIV: Let\u2019s Make A Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve had my players try to barter for items I was trying to give them for free. This is not a bad thing, but it always throws me off-script. It\u2019s like little Timmy coming downstairs on Christmas morning and crying out, \u201cSweet! Okay mom and dad, how much for the big box with \u2018timmy\u2019 on it? Huh? How much?\u201d It doesn\u2019t matter what you say now, the moment is ruined.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–\u00a0 Shamus, Monday Nov 27, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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No no no, you just have an NPC come in from entirely off screen and be confused who told them about your grand gifts of boats. Make it a weird social interaction:<\/p>\n

Galadriel: Oh…you gave them the boats already?<\/p>\n

Nameless elf guy: Well they just sort of…<\/p>\n

Galadriel: I really thought you’d wait for me, I had a whole sort of ceremony planned…<\/p>\n

Nameless elf guy: Well, yes, but…<\/p>\n

Galadriel: Go on back, I’ll speak to you about this later.<\/p>\n

The party can then be gleeful they cut off a awkward ceremony. Or horrified and speculative wondering if they got that guy fired and if elves even have jobs in the first place. Either way, your players don’t get off thinking they just bullied your NPC’s into gifts they didn’t want to give, leading to more bullying later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had my players try to barter for items I was trying to give them for free. This is not a bad thing, but it always throws me off-script. It\u2019s like little Timmy coming downstairs on Christmas morning and crying out, \u201cSweet! Okay mom and dad, how much for the big box with \u2018timmy\u2019 on […]<\/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-55988","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\/55988","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=55988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56039,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55988\/revisions\/56039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}