{"id":64,"date":"2008-06-06T13:14:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-06-06T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:14:51","slug":"learn-about-dnd-40-with-some-cool-funny-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/learn-about-dnd-40-with-some-cool-funny-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about DnD 4.0 with some cool, funny guys."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here&#8217;s what happened.<br \/>\nTycho and Gabriel from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/\">Penny Arcade<\/a>, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one of the R&#038;D guys from Wizards of the Coast, who runs a DnD game for them.<br \/>\nThey recorded the whole thing.  Plus, Gabe and Scott drew some scenes from the adventure.<br \/>\nSo what the teeming public gets out of it: the whole adventure has been recorded as eight podcasts, plus funny comics.<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s not all!<br \/>\nSee, Tycho plays d20 all the time.  Scott hasn&#8217;t played in years, but did at one time.  Gabe has never played DnD or any other tabletop RPG at all.<br \/>\nAnd the GM is really good and takes his time explaining everything, so you find out about the game&#8217;s system in a way that&#8217;s really natural &#8212; the guy is REALLY good explaining the game.<br \/>\nAnd you have players who are just kind of excellent to listen to.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/drfe\/20080530\">The first session is here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/drfe\/20080606\">The second session is here.<\/a><br \/>\nYou have to create a login to the Wizard&#8217;s web site to see the stuff and download the podcasts.  If you have  the least little interest in the game, at all, this is how I would suggest you learn about the game, before even looking at the rules, or buying them.<br \/>\nI have to admit, I&#8217;ve been looking over the rules for the levels 21 to 30, the &#8220;Epic&#8221; ranges, and thinking that those rules represent exactly the direction our long-time DnD game went&#8230; an ogre warrior gathering an army to become a battle master&#8230; or a cleric on the way to demigod-hood, for example (she gave birth her deity&#8217;s son, after all)&#8230;  it&#8217;s a shame these weren&#8217;t the rules we were using back then.  We would have had somewhere to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so here&#8217;s what happened. Tycho and Gabriel from Penny Arcade, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d20","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}