{"id":56037,"date":"2023-09-03T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56037"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:39","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-xxxv-a-dubious-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56037","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XXXV: A Dubious Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-36.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=774\">The players are there to overcome challenges and earn rewards. If you are foolish enough to deny them the desired supply of challenges and rewards they will instead amuse themselves by frustrating the goals of your campaign and thwarting your emerging plot. In this way you can view loot and XP as the candy with which you bribe your wayward players into behaving themselves.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211;\u00a0 Shamus, Wednesday Nov 29, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, our current table gets really bored if we don&#8217;t get to do enough role-play in a session. Combat is fine, but it can get pretty same-y. Give me interpersonal drama and let the combat be meaningful, like stabbing a guy who wronged a party member earlier. Loot is always good though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The players are there to overcome challenges and earn rewards. If you are foolish enough to deny them the desired supply of challenges and rewards they will instead amuse themselves by frustrating the goals of your campaign and thwarting your emerging plot. In this way you can view loot and XP as the candy with [&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-56037","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\/56037","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=56037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56041,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions\/56041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}