{"id":16586,"date":"2026-10-19T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:41:51","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-19-pleading-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16586","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 19 \u2013 Pleading for more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/261019\/1019.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"616\" title=\"A look made for the back of an algebra notebook, early Metal Blade LP sleevem or the side of a bitchin' custom van conversion.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No other tabletop RPG experience could ever match the obsessive bliss of my junior high self flipping through the copy of <em>Fiend Folio<\/em> he&#8217;d found marked down to $3.95 at the local Kay*Bee Toys store.  It didn&#8217;t matter than I was a neophyte Basic Set player who had no idea what most of the statlines meant, only that the book contained a host of weird and wicked creatures drawn in a lurid style befitting their roots as the products of British fandom.<\/p>\n<p>Browsing the book felt like a transgressive act, and made both 1st Edition Monster Manuals &#8212; when I eventually acquired them &#8212; profoundly disappointing by comparison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwMInhFP3Ek?si=ZXAvvS2NAE1tW6X0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No other tabletop RPG experience could ever match the obsessive bliss of my junior high self flipping through the copy of Fiend Folio he&#8217;d found marked down to $3.95 at the local Kay*Bee Toys store. It didn&#8217;t matter than I was a neophyte Basic Set player who had no idea what most of the statlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,668,15],"tags":[2486,396,826],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-fiend-folio","tag-my-favorite-things","tag-role-playing-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}