{"id":57164,"date":"2024-02-18T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57164"},"modified":"2024-02-24T20:52:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T01:52:51","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-lix-disorder-of-the-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57164","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remaster LIX: Disorder of the Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_Rings_Page-60.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922\">I don\u2019t blame them for wanting to hold onto their walking sticks. Edoras has about the worst wheelchair \/ handicapped access I\u2019ve ever seen. If you take a bad step at the entrance to the Golden Hall, you won\u2019t stop rolling until you\u2019re outside of the city.<\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"160\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922\">Laying that aside, this is a great case of, \u201ca small change to the script throws the whole conversation into the blender and hits <em>liquify<\/em>.\u201d If you have a conversation which requires information to be revealed in a certain order, you can bet the players will \u2013 without even trying \u2013 turn the whole thing sideways and backwards. They will trick you into revealing the catch to doing a job before they\u2019ve agreed to do it, or goad you into revealing a loophole in the local rules while they still have the opportunity to exploit it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"insetimage\" title=\"Wheelchair deathtrap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/sign_handicap.jpg\" alt=\"Wheelchair deathtrap\" width=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922\">They are devious little buggers, for sure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922\">-Shamus, <span class=\"subhead-box\">Friday Feb 2, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the late post, things have been hectic.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I do wish I could script out every NPC encounter to a T, it&#8217;s a rough balance not to give too much away. But luckily all hope isn&#8217;t lost for those of us who are bad at improv. You can&#8217;t understate the power of the phrase &#8216;let me check my notes&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;ll be back in a minute, I need to piss&#8217; to buy you some valuble time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t blame them for wanting to hold onto their walking sticks. Edoras has about the worst wheelchair \/ handicapped access I\u2019ve ever seen. If you take a bad step at the entrance to the Golden Hall, you won\u2019t stop rolling until you\u2019re outside of the city. Laying that aside, this is a great case [&hellip;]<\/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-57164","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\/57164","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=57164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57214,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions\/57214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}