{"id":168,"date":"2009-06-12T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2009-06-12T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:32:45","slug":"miniature-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have a pretty huge chip on my shoulder that I want to share here. I furiously begin writing down my ideas in some form of irrational prose. And then I scrap it because my entire point gets lost. Maddening!<\/p>\n<p>Let me say plainly that all I want are plastic, pre-painted miniatures sold in a way that lets me buy what I want. I don&#8217;t want random monsters. I don&#8217;t want to paint them myself. I don&#8217;t want to use glass beads or cardboard tokens. No clever marketing gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reapermini.com\/Miniatures\/Legendary%20Encounters\">Reaper<\/a> seems to be catching on. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/minis\">Wizards of the Coast<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem to get it. They keep trying to somehow sell their miniatures as collectables. If you are going to make a table top role playing adventure game that (by the book) requires miniatures to play, don&#8217;t jerk me around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have a pretty huge chip on my shoulder that I want to share here. I furiously begin writing down my ideas in some form of irrational prose. And then I scrap it because my entire point gets lost. Maddening! Let me say plainly that all I want are plastic, pre-painted miniatures sold in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/?p=168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miniature Troubles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dd4e","category-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderoferis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}