{"id":673,"date":"2006-10-04T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=673"},"modified":"2007-03-10T23:26:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T04:26:57","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XIII:<br>Let&#8217;s Not go There"},"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_lotr13.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, Holy Grail, Tim the Enchanter, Roger the Shrubber, Knights of Nee!' title='Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, Holy Grail, Tim the Enchanter, Roger the Shrubber, Knights of Nee!'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, the most pervasive problem in D&#038;D, and one which the rules have never addressed. The tension of many battles has been ruined by some smart-alec suggesting they use the Holy Hand Grenade.  No fortress &#8211; no matter how impressive or dangerous &#8211; will ever seem foreboding after one of the players points out that, &#8220;It&#8217;s only a model&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>My own suggestion for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/dd-4th-edition\/\">4.0 edition rules<\/a>: <em>Anyone who quotes Holy Grail during a session should be made to eat their own character sheet.<\/em>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, of course, the most pervasive problem in D&#038;D, and one which the rules have never addressed. The tension of many battles has been ruined by some smart-alec suggesting they use the Holy Hand Grenade. No fortress &#8211; no matter how impressive or dangerous &#8211; will ever seem foreboding after one of the players [&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-673","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\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}