{"id":57283,"date":"2024-03-03T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57283"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T00:30:16","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remastered-lxi-words-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57283","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remastered LXI: Words Get in the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/DM_of_the_fuck_Page-62.png' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=937\">If you\u2019re having trouble with wayward players derailing your carefully designed plot, you can always fix this by making the game non-interactive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=937\">Let me know how that works out for you.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=937\">-Shamus, <span class=\"subhead-box\">Wednesday Feb 7, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes these comics reference aspects of TTRPG culture that died long before I ever entered the scene. But it&#8217;s always fun to find how many issues truly are timeless.<\/p>\n<p>I think at a certain point you have to ask yourself, &#8216;do I want to DM because I want to play a fun game with my friends, or because its easier than self publishing&#8217;. If it&#8217;s the latter, i&#8217;d say just write the book. It&#8217;s the same amount of effort, but if you&#8217;re lucky you might get some cash out of it instead of estranging a bunch of your friends by forcing them all to roll dice at a one man show every other month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re having trouble with wayward players derailing your carefully designed plot, you can always fix this by making the game non-interactive. Let me know how that works out for you. -Shamus, Wednesday Feb 7, 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-57283","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\/57283","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=57283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57293,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283\/revisions\/57293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}