{"id":614,"date":"2007-04-11T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2007-04-11T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:23:23","slug":"save-vs-gollum-quest-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/save-vs-gollum-quest-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Save vs. Gollum quest hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/dm_of_the_rings.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" alt=\"DM of the Rings\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy&#8217;s comic series is spot-on in illustrating how a typical RPG plays out. He describes the strip thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&#038;D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&#038;D campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=612\">first comic strip<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?cat=14\">index<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy&#8217;s comic series is spot-on in illustrating how a typical RPG plays out. He describes the strip thusly: Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&#038;D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-games-non-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}