{"id":1605,"date":"2004-10-13T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:19:49","slug":"1605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/13\/1605\/","title":{"rendered":"Read It and Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Ratings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookofratings.com\/dndmonsters.html\" target=\"_new\">grades Dungeons and Dragons monsters<\/a>.  For example, the blink dog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These intelligent, teleporting, other-dimensional fox terriers are the natural enemies of displacer beasts. I love that Gygax had this whole magic-spewing ecosystem going on. Of course blink dogs are the natural enemies of displacer beasts! And esophagus monsters feed on the tender leaves of the rare-but-majestic elf ficus! It all fits together! Anyhow, blink dogs are chaotic good, which means that they&#8217;re one of the few creatures in the Monster Manual that don&#8217;t exist solely to guard treasure and draw blood. Instead they can aid the party, provide information, and look really surprised when you kill them to search their spleen for emeralds. <b>C-<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lordsutch.com\/?entryid=2044\" target=\"_new\">Brock Sides at Signifying Nothing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Ratings grades Dungeons and Dragons monsters. For example, the blink dog: These intelligent, teleporting, other-dimensional fox terriers are the natural enemies of displacer beasts. I love that Gygax had this whole magic-spewing ecosystem going on. Of course blink dogs are the natural enemies of displacer beasts! And esophagus monsters feed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20938,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/20938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}