{"id":796,"date":"2006-12-08T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=796"},"modified":"2007-03-11T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T13:20:20","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-xxxixdont-hate-the-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings XXXIX:<br>Don&#8217;t Hate the Player"},"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_lotr39.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Boromir, Lots of Orcs, Hitpoints, Player Death' title='Boromir, Lots of Orcs, Hitpoints, Player Death'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So after a couple of weeks of speculation about what will happen to Boromir, you can&#8230; speculate some more!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I&#8217;ll have the other &#8220;half&#8221; of his death.  It was just too big to cram into one strip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">As I write this I find I can only do one of two things at any given time: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tell the story\n<\/li>\n<li>Tell a joke\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I really envy the skill of Rich Burlew, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantitp.com\/comics\/oots.html\">Order of the Stick<\/a>. His strips are able to advance the story and deliver the funny at the same time.  I&#8217;m still getting a feel for how to make a comic, and the longer I do it the more I see how hard it is to move the plot forward while telling a joke.  The best strips so far are the ones where the characters just have a bit of preposterous dialog and the plot doesn&#8217;t go anywhere.  The <a href=\"?p=774\">lamest ones<\/a> are where I just move everyone to the next batch of jokes. <\/p>\n<p>Still, these are fun to make.  I&#8217;m not sick of them yet.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after a couple of weeks of speculation about what will happen to Boromir, you can&#8230; speculate some more! On Monday I&#8217;ll have the other &#8220;half&#8221; of his death. It was just too big to cram into one strip. As I write this I find I can only do one of two things at any [&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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}