{"id":752,"date":"2004-04-26T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2004-04-26T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T22:47:17","slug":"the-forge-on-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/the-forge-on-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forge on Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not just Batman, actually, in fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>every single character that can be referenced for this stereotype\/archetype is also a Big Softy. Show him a struggling young couple, a stray animal, an old but still feisty craftsman, or anything similar, and he&#8217;ll put his blood and bones on the line to help them.<br \/>\nConan. Mad Max. Batman. The whole bunch of&#8217;em, all softies. The inability to see that characterizes a large number of role-players who continually want to play vicious bad-asses who are not Softies and then wonder why no one wants to play with them, or why they never quite feel like they get the character &#8220;right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It explains something I&#8217;d never really tried to voice about why Batman &#8216;works&#8217; in the hands of some writers and doesn&#8217;t in the hands of others, but the relation to PCs in RPGs is also a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just Batman, actually, in fact&#8230; every single character that can be referenced for this stereotype\/archetype is also a Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}