{"id":2711,"date":"2004-07-31T06:28:36","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/31\/whats-the-profit-margin-on-this-troll-hunt\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:59:45","slug":"whats-the-profit-margin-on-this-troll-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/31\/whats-the-profit-margin-on-this-troll-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the profit margin on this troll hunt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10478,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/07\\\/i_think_im_in_l.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, yes, diff&#8217;rent streaks for diff&#8217;rent freaks and all that, but &#8212; without meaning <em>any<\/em> offense &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to admit that an <a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/i_think_im_in_l.html\" title=\"I think I'm in love!\">all-economists Dungeons and Dragons game<\/a> just might rank fairly high in my personal descriptions of hell. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Is it really financially prudent to go after this troll?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the expected profit-to-loss ratio if we attempt to capture the dragon&#8217;s hoard?<\/p>\n<p>Does our raiding party&#8217;s net worth really justify attacking in this instance?<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I am neither an economist nor a D&amp;D player, so I have no real personal experience to draw upon for this &#8212; though while my exposure to economists is nearly nonexistent, I&#8217;ve known, been around, and lived with enough D&amp;D players to know how wacky they can get on their own &#8212; I just thought that the combination of the two was simultaneously amusing and frightening. Please take this post as the good-natured ribbing that it&#8217;s meant to be. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, yes, diff&#8217;rent streaks for diff&#8217;rent freaks and all that, but &#8212; without meaning any offense &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to admit that an all-economists Dungeons and Dragons game just might rank fairly high in my personal descriptions of hell. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}