{"id":167,"date":"2025-12-01T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:40:58","slug":"a-post-pool-gallimaufry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"A Post-Pool Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tavern_tales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tavern_tales-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"tavern_tales\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tavern_tales-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tavern_tales.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0era\u00a0before any player facing a minor roadblock on the glory road could promptly search up a flawless walkthrough, the virtual dungeon master would resort to trickery to stop the faint of heart and feeble of brain from\u00a0pawing through unearned lore in the printed Adventurer&#8217;s Journal.\u00a0 Behold &#8211; bogus tavern tales!\u00a0 Is that a Zork text adventure reference? In my Gold Box game?\u00a0 And I never did encounter any philanthropic insect-men or dwarf hordes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cave_ambush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cave_ambush-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"cave_ambush\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cave_ambush-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cave_ambush.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nor did the party encounter a race of evil dragons aside from this wyvern being pestered by thieving kobolds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tpk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tpk-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"tpk\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tpk-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tpk.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has to be the most abrupt total party wipe of all.\u00a0 And they were winning!\u00a0 Hat&#8217;s off to the developers at TSR for this solitary crash in more than 35 years of adventure.\u00a0 Well, aside from the incident with too many Ioun stones\u00a0leading to the spontaneous appearance of pink Berserkers.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s a tale for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0era\u00a0before any player facing a minor roadblock on the glory road could promptly search up a flawless walkthrough, the virtual dungeon master would resort to trickery to stop the faint of heart and feeble of brain from\u00a0pawing through unearned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/?p=167\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodyfolsom.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}