{"id":5828,"date":"2008-03-04T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/5828\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T17:12:14","slug":"drunken-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5828","title":{"rendered":"Drunken Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0786948523%26tag=ghosthouse01-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0786948523%253FSubscriptionId=1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02\" title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31H%2BRMzSMBL.jpg\" width=\"122\" \/><\/a>Gary Gygax died.  I played a fair amount of role-playing games in my day.  AD&amp;D and Paranoia were my favorites.  I&#8217;m too young to be a 1st generation gamer; I inherited most of my books (1st edition AD&amp;D) from my cousin, who is almost 10 years older than me.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Gary Gygax invented roleplaying games.  But most of all, Gygax is the man who brought us the genius that is the Owlbear.<\/p>\n<p>What is the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.story-games.com\/forums\/comments.php?DiscussionID=822\">Owlbear<\/A> you ask?  It&#8217;s a monster in Dungeons and Dragons.  Three guesses what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Read the following in a wasted, slurry voice, like you are trying to tell a ghost story to five year olds but you&#8217;ve had about eight drinks too many:<\/p>\n<p>See, one night, a DRUNKEN WIZARD crossed an OWL&#8230; with a BEAR.  Creating&#8230; the&#8230; OWLBEAR.  It was as big as a BEAR.  With a beak.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gygax died. I played a fair amount of role-playing games in my day. AD&amp;D and Paranoia were my favorites. I&#8217;m too young to be a 1st generation gamer; I inherited most of my books (1st edition AD&amp;D) from my cousin, who is almost 10 years older than me. Sure, Gary Gygax invented roleplaying games. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}