{"id":773,"date":"2006-11-27T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=773"},"modified":"2007-03-11T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T13:11:00","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xxxivlets-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XXXIV:<br>Let&#8217;s Make A Deal"},"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_lotr34.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Departing Lothlorien, Rope, Boats, Celeborn' title='Departing Lothlorien, Rope, Boats, Celeborn'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my players try to barter for items I was trying to give them for free.  This is not a bad thing, but it always throws me off-script.  It&#8217;s like little Timmy coming downstairs on Christmas morning and crying out, &#8220;Sweet! Okay mom and dad, how much for the big box with &#8216;timmy&#8217; on it?  Huh? How much?&#8221;  It doesn&#8217;t matter what you say now, the moment is ruined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my players try to barter for items I was trying to give them for free. This is not a bad thing, but it always throws me off-script. It&#8217;s like little Timmy coming downstairs on Christmas morning and crying out, &#8220;Sweet! Okay mom and dad, how much for the big box with &#8216;timmy&#8217; on [&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-773","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\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}