{"id":891,"date":"2003-09-15T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2003-09-15T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T15:39:58","slug":"the-10x10-room-meets-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/the-10x10-room-meets-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10&#8217;x10&#8242; room meets the next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to <a title=\"bears-cave.com: September 2003 Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/2003_09.html#3436\">this post<\/a> on Justin&#8217;s ongoing struggles to improve (and our ongoing struggles to help him), I felt I had to add this addendum:<br \/>\nThis Saturday, Justin decided that he wanted to GM a DnD game for me, Jackie, and &#8216;maybe a few others&#8217;.  (Ironically, I&#8217;d just commented to Dave the day before that I was hoping he&#8217;d find a few gamers around school, since that was at least odd, deviant behavior that I <i>understood<\/i>.)<br \/>\nHe dug through the $2.50 &#8216;pocket adventures&#8217; that we&#8217;ve been accumulating for the last couple years, found one he liked, commandeered every blank battlemat in the house, and spent most of the time we were playing Nobilis on Sunday &#8220;prepping the module&#8221; upstairs, by transcribing all the maps in the module to the battlemats.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s informed me that 4th-level characters will be &#8216;workable&#8217;.<br \/>\nRemembering the ways in which roleplaying helped me learn to &#8230; well, <i>learn<\/i> &#8230; how it helped me meet and make friends in school, and how it kept me most importantly <i>occupied<\/i> during high school and college, I have to say that I&#8217;m very pleased that he&#8217;s interesting in trying his hand behind the Screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to this post on Justin&#8217;s ongoing struggles to improve (and our ongoing struggles to help him), I felt I<\/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-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}