{"id":56932,"date":"2023-12-31T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56932"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:46:32","slug":"56932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=56932","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster LII: I Specialize in Ranger-ing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-53f.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=887\">When dealing with railroading DM\u2019s, never waste skill points on the tracking skill. If it\u2019s part of the plot, you\u2019ll find it no matter what you roll. If it\u2019s not part of the plot, then it doesn\u2019t exist anyway.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=887\">-Shamus, Wednesday Jan 17, 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve dealt with a DM like that before. There&#8217;s nothing that makes you want to leap across the table at someone like a feral little beast more than hearing that a a nat 20 failed, and no they won&#8217;t explain why that didn&#8217;t work, stop asking questions and go back to falling into the very jumpable chasm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When dealing with railroading DM\u2019s, never waste skill points on the tracking skill. If it\u2019s part of the plot, you\u2019ll find it no matter what you roll. If it\u2019s not part of the plot, then it doesn\u2019t exist anyway. -Shamus, Wednesday Jan 17, 2007<\/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-56932","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\/56932","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=56932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56938,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56932\/revisions\/56938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}