{"id":56909,"date":"2023-12-24T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56909"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T20:35:10","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-li-the-tenacity-of-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56909","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster LI: The Tenacity of Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The saying is, \u201cNo honor among thieves\u201d, but I think it applies just as well to the other character classes. I would not be shocked at all to find a paladin and a cleric arguing over which one of them gets to pry the gold fillings from the teeth of their recently slain companion, and if they are obliged to resurect him afterwards.<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally players did this because the rules only awarded experience points when they acquired treasure. The rules have since been revised, so now people are free to act this way out of naked greed.<\/a><\/p>\n

-Shamus, Monday Jan 15, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’ll admit my players are a lot different than the folks he played with. I usually find the focus is less on money (outside of what they need to cover general expenses) and more on obsessively collecting any assorted junk I may toss their way. I had my players encounter a set of magical doors once that led into a series of random cupboards and drawers throughout the world, and they kept almost every item they found. Including someones keys, an invitation to a party that ended two weeks ago, and a punchcard coupon for a store they’d never heard of.<\/p>\n

If i’m lucky they’ll find a way to make some good use out of them, otherwise they might just end up on an episode of hoarders instead.<\/p>\n

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The saying is, \u201cNo honor among thieves\u201d, but I think it applies just as well to the other character classes. I would not be shocked at all to find a paladin and a cleric arguing over which one of them gets to pry the gold fillings from the teeth of their recently slain companion, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56909","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\/56909","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56928,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56909\/revisions\/56928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}