{"id":1996,"date":"2015-07-23T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2015-07-24T02:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T02:48:37","slug":"gygax-of-thrones-sir-meowntain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"If Game of Thrones were Dungeons &#038; Dragons &#8211; Sir Meow-ntain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons (D&amp;D) for more than thirty years, I often\u00a0interpret a film or book as though it were a group of people playing. Here&#8217;s my take on Game of Thrones as if it were a game of D&amp;D that George R.R. Martin was Dungeon Mastering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t worry, I have some more of these memes on the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes when you&#8217;re playing D&amp;D the Dungeon Master does something to a Player Character that the\u00a0Player\u00a0never wants to happen again.\u00a0Sometimes players take a setback personally or badly. Resourceful players will often then try to take precautions against a reoccurrence of the unpleasantness. Having your character&#8217;s favorite thing destroyed or stolen\u00a0often makes players furious, as just one example. It&#8217;s a natural reaction to a traumatic event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Game of Thrones, if Circe were a PC,\u00a0her Player&#8217;s apparent reaction to being taken prisoner included getting a giant, golden-cat-helmed,\u00a0Frankenstein-esque murdering machine who was sworn to destroy all her enemies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sirMeowntainMartinDM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2005\" src=\"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sirMeowntainMartinDM1.png\" alt=\"sirMeowntainMartinDM\" width=\"752\" height=\"2010\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sirMeowntainMartinDM1.png 752w, http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sirMeowntainMartinDM1-112x300.png 112w, http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sirMeowntainMartinDM1-383x1024.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons (D&amp;D) for more than thirty years, I often\u00a0interpret a film or book as though it were a group of people playing. Here&#8217;s my take on Game of Thrones as if it were a game of D&amp;D that George R.R. Martin was Dungeon Mastering. Don&#8217;t worry, I have some more of these memes on the way. Sometimes when you&#8217;re playing D&amp;D the Dungeon Master does something to a Player Character that the\u00a0Player\u00a0never wants to happen again.\u00a0Sometimes players take a setback personally or badly. Resourceful players will often then try to take precautions against a reoccurrence of the unpleasantness. Having your character&#8217;s favorite thing destroyed or stolen\u00a0often makes players furious, as just one example. It&#8217;s a natural reaction to a traumatic event. In Game of Thrones, if Circe were a PC,\u00a0her Player&#8217;s apparent reaction to being taken prisoner included getting a giant, golden-cat-helmed,\u00a0Frankenstein-esque murdering machine who was sworn to destroy all her enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}