{"id":27691,"date":"2019-06-24T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=27691"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:42:48","slug":"midderlands-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/midderlands-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Midderlands expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at one of my other blogs, <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/\/2019\/06\/18\/mythical-beasts-and-places-of-stoke-on-trent\/\">Mythical beasts and places of Stoke-on-Trent<\/a>, an unofficial expansion setting\/gazetteer for <em>The Midderlands<\/em> RPG (old-school OSR).  The game&#8217;s a sort of late-medieval \/ early-renaissance &#8216;<em>Blackadder<\/em>\/<em>Monty Python<\/em> meets Lovecraft&#8217; low fantasy game set in the Midlands of England, as if art-directed by Brian Froud and the original 1980s <em>Spitting Image<\/em> guys.  Despite the richness of the world, the play samples I&#8217;ve seen so far have been quite lacklustre.  It probably takes an imaginative game-master and players to do justice to the setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at one of my other blogs, Mythical beasts and places of Stoke-on-Trent, an unofficial expansion setting\/gazetteer for The Midderlands &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/midderlands-expansion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}