{"id":33,"date":"2010-03-30T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/30\/a-reminder-that-shadow-is-dangerous-no-matter-who-you-are\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:41:28","slug":"a-reminder-that-shadow-is-dangerous-no-matter-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/30\/a-reminder-that-shadow-is-dangerous-no-matter-who-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder that Shadow is dangerous, no matter who you are"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It obviously makes shadow that much more dangerous place, since there will be shadow people of extreme power probably collecting these items and being their own little warlords waiting for a challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-Michael Zack<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This. And one other thing. Even if you go with the assumption that Shadows spontaneously come into existence when an Amberite goes looking for them, *within that Shadow* it has an entire history going back thousands or billions of years. The Shadow may have just popped into existence, but the item of power within it was still created by a weaponsmith or enchanter or god or dragon or whatever. <\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t new ideas. They probably aren&#8217;t even new ideas to you. My point is that they&#8217;re ideas that are totally supported by Zelazny&#8217;s writing and Wujcik&#8217;s rules. Look at page 108, Shadows of Desire, and pages 138-9, Artifacts of Power.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-Tommy Tanaka, Amber Diceless RPG Yahoo!Group<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t add much to this &#8211; other than to note that many of the games I&#8217;ve been in do not treat Shadow as a dangerous place.  Then again &#8211; a lot of the games I&#8217;ve been in are post-Patternfall and lean towards Merlin&#8217;s more relaxed view of the world, where the only challenges are relatives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It obviously makes shadow that much more dangerous place, since there will be shadow people of extreme power probably collecting these items and being their own little warlords waiting for a challenge.&#8221;This. And one other thing. Even if you go with&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-33","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\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}