{"id":1966,"date":"2014-07-25T07:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T05:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/25\/mana-did-not-make-it-into-the-d-d-rulebook\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:23:45","slug":"mana-did-not-make-it-into-the-d-d-rulebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/25\/mana-did-not-make-it-into-the-d-d-rulebook\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n99argxHQX1rrwkloo1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n99argxHQX1rrwkloo1_500-330x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n99argxHQX1rrwkloo1_500-330x500.jpg 330w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n99argxHQX1rrwkloo1_500-66x100.jpg 66w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n99argxHQX1rrwkloo1_500.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>&#8220;Mana did not make it into the D&amp;D rulebook because Gary Gygax and the other creators of D&amp;D based their magic system on the novels of Jack Vance, where a limited number of spells could be memorized, cast once, and then forgotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of many amazing insights into how the concept of mana made its way from Polynesian antiquity into today\u2019s gamer culture.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/theappendix.net\/issues\/2014\/4\/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic\">The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic\u2014Vol. 2, No. 2\u2014The Appendix<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mana did not make it into the D&amp;D rulebook because Gary Gygax and the other creators of D&amp;D based their magic system on the novels of Jack Vance, where a limited number of spells could be memorized, cast once, and then forgotten.&#8221; One of many amazing insights into how the concept of mana made its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/25\/mana-did-not-make-it-into-the-d-d-rulebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}