{"id":20,"date":"2010-03-04T19:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/04\/defending-the-nature-of-amber\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:16:20","slug":"defending-the-nature-of-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/04\/defending-the-nature-of-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the Nature of Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I suggest that ADRPG, perhaps more than any other roleplaying game I have played, depends on conforming to Zelazny&#8217;s style and vision for the multiverse. While items played a larger role in Merlins&#8217; chronicles than Corwins&#8217;, it was still the brains and abilities of the characters (including emergently sentient items such as Ghostwheel) that dominated the story; as the GM, I believe it&#8217;s up to you to keep items from dominating your story too, however you choose to do that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-David Van Dyche, Amber Diceless RPG Yahoo!Group<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes enormous sense to me as a GM, and I think I&#8217;m going to present it without otherwise commenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suggest that ADRPG, perhaps more than any other roleplaying game I have played, depends on conforming to Zelazny&#8217;s style and vision for the multiverse. While items played a larger role in Merlins&#8217; chronicles than Corwins&#8217;, it was still the brains and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory","tag-amber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}