{"id":3873,"date":"2019-08-23T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2019-08-23T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:41:32","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RPGaDay 2019<\/p>\n<p>There may have been a few times when my gaming group was genuinely surprised by something in an adventure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reveal of an unexpected villain or enemy.<\/li>\n<li>The arrival of &#8216;the cavalry&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>The simple face that we survived an encounter that didn&#8217;t seem survivable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Specifics?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Doctor Who adventure revealed the Cybermen as the villains, to the surprise of our group.<\/li>\n<li>Things weren&#8217;t going well for our merchant crew in FASA Star Trek during a space battle, so Glenn said to me, &#8220;roll your luck,&#8221; and I started to say something about my trader captain, and then he said, &#8220;no, roll YOUR luck,&#8221; meaning my personal alter ego Star Fleet captain&#8217;s luck, which was rather high, and the odds shifted in our favor when the <em>USS Excalibur<\/em> arrived on the scene.<\/li>\n<li>see above example.\u00a0 Or most if not all of our Gloomhaven sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPGaDay 2019 There may have been a few times when my gaming group was genuinely surprised by something in an adventure. The reveal of an unexpected villain or enemy. The arrival of &#8216;the cavalry&#8217;. The simple face that we survived an encounter that didn&#8217;t seem survivable. Specifics? One Doctor Who adventure revealed the Cybermen as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/surprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surprise!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[489],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-rpgaday2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}