{"id":56924,"date":"2024-01-07T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56924"},"modified":"2024-01-06T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T19:26:29","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remaster-liii-waste-not-want-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56924","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster LIII: Waste Not, Want Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don\u2019t get too hung up on horses. While the rulebooks have all sorts of rules for movement speeds while on foot, encumbered, or riding, the truth is that all travel takes exactly as long as the DM wants it to. This brings to mind the wise old saying:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA player is never late, Dave. Nor is he early. He arrives precisly when the plot dictates he should.\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Or something like that.<\/a><\/p>\n

–Shamus, Friday Jan 19, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I appreciate the classic approach of ‘no you can’t do that, its because of plot’ but there’s something to be said about saying ‘oh, uh. I misread my notes these woods are bigger than I said yesterday’ or ‘no the horses are sick. Don’t ask how, they’ll be better later. Don’t worry about it.’<\/p>\n

Edit: some folks may have noticed this was up briefly last week instead of the page that was actually supposed<\/em> to be there. There was a bit of a mixup in the image storage system, I grabbed the wrong file and I was in a rush to finish it so I didn’t double check it like I should have. Sorry for the mixup, and shoutout to Vernal for pointing it out so it didn’t sit too long!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t get too hung up on horses. While the rulebooks have all sorts of rules for movement speeds while on foot, encumbered, or riding, the truth is that all travel takes exactly as long as the DM wants it to. This brings to mind the wise old saying: \u201cA player is never late, Dave. Nor […]<\/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-56924","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\/56924","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=56924"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56977,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56924\/revisions\/56977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}