{"id":56115,"date":"2023-09-10T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56115"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:38:52","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-xxxvi-hates-the-dice-hates-them-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56115","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster XXXVI: Hates the Dice! Hates Them Forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most terrifying part of any campaign is when the players at last wiggle free of your grasp and escape the railroad plot you\u2019ve devised.<\/a><\/p>\n

This marks the first time our hapless group has broken from the plot as set down by Tolkien himself. What does this mean? Is the whole thing going off the rails now? Has our hapless DM finally lost control? Will he cheat in order to stick to his predetermined script?<\/a><\/p>\n

Beats me.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–\u00a0 Shamus, Friday Dec 1, 2006<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Can’t lose the plot if you never planned one in the first place. One of my players, months after a campaign ended, found my ‘DM notes’ binder in a stack of books I had. I referenced it constantly when we played. ‘Give me a minute to find that graph.” “Hold on, I have a roll table for that.” “Roll and see what you get from the box.” “Let me check my notes.”<\/p>\n

The book was empty except for the occasional number or single-word, such as ‘boat’ or ‘magic coin’ or the name of an NPC with no other info. The player who found it was my brother, I will never get over his mixture of bafflement and rage.<\/p>\n

“I will never get over discovering the fantastical adventure full of twists, turns, and wonderful memorable characters we were on was pulled directly out of my beloved sibling’s rear end.<\/strong>“<\/em> – Peter’s note<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most terrifying part of any campaign is when the players at last wiggle free of your grasp and escape the railroad plot you\u2019ve devised. This marks the first time our hapless group has broken from the plot as set down by Tolkien himself. What does this mean? Is the whole thing going off the […]<\/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-56115","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\/56115","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=56115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56121,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56115\/revisions\/56121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}