{"id":645,"date":"2006-09-25T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=645"},"modified":"2007-03-13T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T15:33:49","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings IX:<br>Too Warm a Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr9a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell' title='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr9b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell' title='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr9c.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell' title='Lord of the Rings, Elrond Hubbard, Legolas, Rivendell'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>When you want an image to use for your character portrait, you have two choices:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spend years mastering the art of sci-fi \/ fantasy illustration.  Perhaps attend art school.  Hone your craft until you can fully realize your character on paper just as you imagine them.\n<\/li>\n<li>Use Google Image Search and swipe something that looks roughly like how you want your character to look.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For whatever reason, most players take the lazy way and opt for #2, despite the fact that there is a 90% chance they are going to look like a brooding androgynous goth \/ punk elf holding the wrong weapon.   <\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you want an image to use for your character portrait, you have two choices: Spend years mastering the art of sci-fi \/ fantasy illustration. Perhaps attend art school. Hone your craft until you can fully realize your character on paper just as you imagine them. Use Google Image Search and swipe something that looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}