{"id":6231,"date":"2009-12-01T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:29:57","slug":"stolen-pixels-147-naked-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #147: Naked Greed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6831-Stolen-Pixels-147-Naked-Greed\">I really am curious how many other people do this sort of thing in RPG&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really thought the joke would have played better with a human male main character.  My &#8216;lil Elf is female, which kind of confuses the joke.  But having a human male Grey Warden would have required starting a brand new character and playing them to this point in the game, which would have taken some hours. It&#8217;s not a big deal or anything, but it&#8217;s one of those small details that would have been nice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m missing having a &#8220;default&#8221; character.  It was handy to have male Shepard in Mass Effect, so that I had a recognizable &#8220;this is the main character&#8221;. Even if they&#8217;d never played the game, odds were good they would still be familiar with the face from promotional materials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really am curious how many other people do this sort of thing in RPG&#8217;s. I really thought the joke would have played better with a human male main character. My &#8216;lil Elf is female, which kind of confuses the joke. But having a human male Grey Warden would have required starting a brand new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}