{"id":691,"date":"2006-10-11T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=691"},"modified":"2007-03-11T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T13:00:37","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XVI:<br>Teamwork"},"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_lotr16.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Lord of the Rings, Grapple rolls, Tentacle monster.' title='Lord of the Rings, Grapple rolls, Tentacle monster.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to this special edition of DM of the Rings with special behind-the-scenes director&#8217;s commentary&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">An alternate joke I wanted to use here was that the other players were not afraid of the <em>monster<\/em> per se, but afraid of getting involved in a battle which would require knowledge of the grapple system as well as the byzantine system of <em>attacks of opportunity<\/em>, and they were terrified of trying to wrap their heads around all of this while fighting a many-tentacled creature.  <\/p>\n<p>The gist was that they were fearful of spending the next four hours leafing through the rulebook trying to figure out how to wrestle with this thing.  There is some truth (and thus humor) in this idea, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to deliver the comedic payload.<\/p>\n<p>So instead you got this.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this special edition of DM of the Rings with special behind-the-scenes director&#8217;s commentary&#8230; An alternate joke I wanted to use here was that the other players were not afraid of the monster per se, but afraid of getting involved in a battle which would require knowledge of the grapple system as well as [&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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}