{"id":922,"date":"2007-02-02T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922"},"modified":"2007-03-10T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T04:13:18","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-lixdisorder-of-the-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings LIX:<br>Disorder of the Stick"},"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_lotr59a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Party must disarm in Edoras..' title='Party must disarm in Edoras..'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr59b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Everyone has walking sticks.' title='Everyone has walking sticks.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame them for wanting to hold onto their walking sticks.  Edoras has about the worst wheelchair \/ handicapped access I&#8217;ve ever seen.  If you take a bad step at the entrance to the Golden Hall, you won&#8217;t stop rolling until you&#8217;re outside of the city.<\/p>\n<p><table width='160'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/sign_handicap.jpg' class='insetimage' width='160' alt='Wheelchair deathtrap' title='Wheelchair deathtrap'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table>Laying that aside, this is a great case of, &#8220;a small change to the script throws the whole conversation into the blender and hits <em>liquify<\/em>.&#8221;  If you have a conversation which requires information to be revealed in a certain order, you can bet the players will &#8211; without even trying &#8211; turn the whole thing sideways and backwards. They will trick you into revealing the catch to doing a job before they&#8217;ve agreed to do it, or goad you into revealing a loophole in the local rules while they still have the opportunity to exploit it.  <\/p>\n<p>They are devious little buggers, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blame them for wanting to hold onto their walking sticks. Edoras has about the worst wheelchair \/ handicapped access I&#8217;ve ever seen. If you take a bad step at the entrance to the Golden Hall, you won&#8217;t stop rolling until you&#8217;re outside of the city. Laying that aside, this is a great case [&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-922","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\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}