{"id":665,"date":"2006-10-02T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=665"},"modified":"2007-03-10T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T04:26:21","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XII:<br>NPC Non Grata"},"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_lotr12.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Player Apathy, Rivendell, Meeting Girls, Powerful NPC&#8217;s' title='Lord of the Rings, Player Apathy, Rivendell, Meeting Girls, Powerful NPC&#8217;s'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Some notes about writing a campaign:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s great that you took the time to come up with &#8220;Count Devron Masuvius Beldamor the III, High Magester of the Realms of Greeenwood&#8221;, but you need to realize that the players are just going to refer to him as &#8220;that wizard guy&#8221;, or simply, &#8220;Mister fancy-pants&#8221;.\n<\/li>\n<li>If you send along a high-level NPC of great majesty and power to accompany the party, you need to realize that the players will treat this character like a bazooka:  The NPC will become a weapon used to solve a problem in the bloodiest and most expedient manner possible, and then discarded without ceremony.\n<\/li>\n<li>You may be a group of unsightly men sitting around a card table on a Friday night, but your players will still be looking for chances to <em>meet girls<\/em>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes about writing a campaign: It&#8217;s great that you took the time to come up with &#8220;Count Devron Masuvius Beldamor the III, High Magester of the Realms of Greeenwood&#8221;, but you need to realize that the players are just going to refer to him as &#8220;that wizard guy&#8221;, or simply, &#8220;Mister fancy-pants&#8221;. If you [&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-665","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\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}