{"id":8213,"date":"2023-02-03T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2023-02-03T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:29:28","slug":"destroy-all-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8213","title":{"rendered":"Destroy All Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There has recently been some fuss around the change in the Open Gaming License<\/a> of Dungeons & Dragons. So here is a nice story about D&D and its history, Destroy<\/a> All Monsters.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

D&D is a game for people who like rules: in order to play even the basic game, you had to make sense of roughly twenty pages of instructions, which cover everything from \u201cAdjusting Ability Scores\u201d (\u201cMagic-users and clerics can reduce their strength scores by 3 points and add 1 to their prime requisite\u201d) to \u201cWho Gets the First Blow?\u201d (\u201cThe character with the highest dexterity strikes first\u201d). In fact, as I wandered farther into the cave, and acquired the rulebooks for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, I found that there were rules for\u00a0everything:<\/em> …\u00a0It would be a mistake to think of these rules as an impediment to enjoying the game. Rather, the rules are a necessary condition for enjoying the game, and this is true whether you play by them or not. The rules induct you into the world of\u00a0D&D;<\/em>\u00a0they are the long, difficult scramble from the mouth of the cave to the first point where you can stand up and look around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has recently been some fuss around the change in the Open Gaming License of Dungeons & Dragons. So here is a nice story about D&D and its history, Destroy All Monsters. D&D is a game for people who like rules: in order to play even the basic game, you had to make sense of … Continue reading Destroy All Monsters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}