{"id":721,"date":"2006-11-01T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=721"},"modified":"2007-03-11T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T13:05:41","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xxivloot-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XXIV:<br>Loot of the Rings"},"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_lotr24.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Loot of the Rings, Horn of Gondor, Staff of Gandalf, Sting, Bow of Legolas, Mithril, Narsil, The One Ring' title='Loot of the Rings, Horn of Gondor, Staff of Gandalf, Sting, Bow of Legolas, Mithril, Narsil, The One Ring'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Is the loot valuable or not? The price tag is meaningless. It&#8217;s all in how you describe it.  Take a page from the home shopping channel, where no item is too mundane to be praised. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a &#8220;small figurine&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a &#8220;beautiful, hand-crafted figurine of a water nymph&#8221;.  Yes, this seems silly.  Of <em>course<\/em> it&#8217;s hand-crafted. <em>Everything<\/em> is in a pre-industrial world. I&#8217;m telling you: It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s not worth two coppers and weighs as much as a brick, your players will <em>fight<\/em> over that figurine if you make it sound exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the loot valuable or not? The price tag is meaningless. It&#8217;s all in how you describe it. Take a page from the home shopping channel, where no item is too mundane to be praised. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;small figurine&#8221;. It&#8217;s a &#8220;beautiful, hand-crafted figurine of a water nymph&#8221;. Yes, this seems silly. Of course [&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-721","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\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}