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Welcome to the Tournament of Champions! (CR 7 edition)
The goal of this tournament is to determine the greatest monster among the outside alignments for monsters with a CR of 6 or less (true neutral will not participate). All the combats in the tournament will take place on a neutral site, the Outland Arena. The winner's name will be enshrined in the Battle of All Alignments Hall of Fame.
Tournament Rules:
The tournament will be a three round, single elimination tournament. The quarterfinal round will always be seeded as follows:
Lawful Good vs. Chaotic Evil
Neutral Good vs. Neutral Evil
Chaotic Good vs. Lawful Evil
Lawful Neutral vs. Chaotic Neutral
In the semi-final round, each of the winning alignments will fight the alignment most diametrically opposed to them. The winners of the semi-final round will face off in the final round for the title of CR 6 Champion!
Champion Selection:
Each player will select a champion to represent their alignment, plus two alternate champions. The champions must have fought for their alignment in the main Battle of All Alignments. A player can either search through their arena thread or they can request a list of monsters and their sources from me and I will e-mail it. The champions will have the same attributes and equipment that they had in the main battle.
If a current player wants to participate in the Tournament of Champions, he needs to e-mail me the following information by Sunday, October 29th:
The monster names of the champion, alternate #1 & alternate #2
The personal names or nicknames of the monsters - use the same name that it had in the main battle, if any.
Optional - Fun facts and information I can use when announcing each monster.
The equipment in each hand of each monster at the beginning of combat, if any.
Any spells, item activations, or actions taken by each monster before combat, if any.
If someone does not want to participate or doesn't have time to make the October 29th deadline, they can state it in this thread and I will open the slot in the Sign Up Sheet thread. Any open slots in the Sign Up Sheet thread will be available to the public at large until Sunday, October 29th. After that I will play any alignments with open slots. My champion selections will be based on 4 categories of objective, predetermined criteria, so I will not use any information sent to me by other players to bias my choices.
Arena Combat:
The choices for each alignment champion will remain secret until they are announced in the arena. The alignment with the least potential choices for champion will select the order in which combats will be conducted in each round (in case of a tie, the tying alignments will select in random order).
The participants of each combat will start in the arena at one of the following pre-selected positions (the elevation must be zero):
Minor adjustments will be made to the starting position of monsters larger than medium size, so no monster will need to squeeze or move into the arena. The loser of the initiative roll (see below) will decide the initial starting positions of both combatants.
The announcement of the monsters will take exactly one minute, so any spells or effects that were started before combat will have their durations reduced by one minute.
In each combat, initiative rolls will decide which combatant goes first in the first round. The opponent who does not go first in the first round will be considered to be flatfooted in that round unless it has a special ability that prevents it from being flatfooted.
If the combat results in a draw, the alternates are announced and the combat starts over again. The winning alternate champion will remain in the tournament for future rounds, unless it loses or draws. If alternate #2 is in the tournament, I may ask for an alternate #3 to be e-mailed to me. Alignments that have run out of potential choices for alternates can recycle a previous combatant back into the tournament.
After each round takes place, the winning monsters will have one week to completely heal and recuperate abilities before starting the next round.
All of the other rules that are listed for the main Battle of All Alignments are in effect for the Tournament of Champions.
Last edited by Gansk; 26th September 2007 at 09:31 AM..
Can we just put them in spoiler tags?
so that people can poke around after the tournament?
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__________________ Game Quote:
K:"Its not like we saved those hands we cut off, it was just to make a point."
D:"Was I not supposed to save them?" "You all are the worst emissaries, ever!" the silver dragon declares, shaking with rage.
"Its a game, a game, I'm only playing. " E. Wiggen My PbP games , Roll Dice
Just a reminder - when you submit your monsters to represent you and the monsters have equipment, please specify what those monsters have in each hand. That goes for both your first choice and your alternates. I would like you to commit to missile or melee weapons without knowing what you might face beforehand.
The alignment with fewer potential candidates chooses who goes first. If there is a tie, then a random roll will give one of the alignments the choice to go first or not. Remember that both combatants will already be inside the arena and will be flatfooted in the first round until they act.
In general, the good alignments will be choosing who will go first vs. the evil alignments. After that it is anybody's guess.
Another reminder - the equipment is still the standard equipment from the text. We did not adopt the rule that lets everybody buy whatever they want. I just want to know what will be in the combatant's hand on the first round, after that you can switch between missile and melee weapons as often as you want during the fight.
OK, we have six good submissions so far and we will wait a week to recruit one or two more players to complete the brackets.
I just need clarifications on equipment in hand from Greybar, ugulu, and Evilhalfling. Two of you just need to give me the info on your alternates, as you gave me the info on your main champion.
Aw man you mean we did'nt get all our paper work in order?
I ment to, its around here somewhere....
*RW
" Lisa, when we redid the furniture did you see a piece of paper with gaming stuff scribbled on it? "
"try your desk"
I will never find it - what did you need beyond equipment from the book?
__________________ Game Quote:
K:"Its not like we saved those hands we cut off, it was just to make a point."
D:"Was I not supposed to save them?" "You all are the worst emissaries, ever!" the silver dragon declares, shaking with rage.
"Its a game, a game, I'm only playing. " E. Wiggen My PbP games , Roll Dice
NG gets to decide which quarterfinal match occurs first? Hmmph. Those pansies'll have a hard time deciding which ballet slippers to wear, nevermind what match should happen first.
I just need to know if your alternates will have a missile or melee weapon in hand at the start of combat.
Spoiler:
Leo - loaded x-bow, qkwah - sword (swift justice)
CG is preparing its "bells of freedom" to celebrate its swift victory over the forces of opression!
__________________ Game Quote:
K:"Its not like we saved those hands we cut off, it was just to make a point."
D:"Was I not supposed to save them?" "You all are the worst emissaries, ever!" the silver dragon declares, shaking with rage.
"Its a game, a game, I'm only playing. " E. Wiggen My PbP games , Roll Dice
Thanks Evilhalfling! I think Greybar is the only one who still owes me this info, but I'll double check tonight.
Here's my proposal to fill the two open slots (LG & CE). I will pick the champion and two alternates based on some objective criteria (not considering the opponents). The last quarterfinal match will be LG vs. CE. The loser of the first quarterfinal match has the option to play one of the alignments. The player will pick an alignment and I will e-mail him my choices. The player can then plan the strategy, pick the equipment or buff spells, and flesh out the creatures for their announcement.
This process continues until we have two players for the last quarterfinal match. This way no player will end up having to fight himself.
For example, Greybar will be choosing the first quarterfinal match. If he chooses NG vs. NE and he loses, he can play either LG or CE since NG is out of the tournament.
I saw on the CNN news ticker that CG had forfeited the ToC because of unbridled terror and despair. Anything to that?
thats just offical propganda from The Man. He just wants to keep us down.
how many times did the word Fnord Appear in the ticker?
__________________ Game Quote:
K:"Its not like we saved those hands we cut off, it was just to make a point."
D:"Was I not supposed to save them?" "You all are the worst emissaries, ever!" the silver dragon declares, shaking with rage.
"Its a game, a game, I'm only playing. " E. Wiggen My PbP games , Roll Dice
Okay..... We are starting? is the judge posting our champions entrances? and why did I get the CE critters stats e-mailed to me?
__________________ Game Quote:
K:"Its not like we saved those hands we cut off, it was just to make a point."
D:"Was I not supposed to save them?" "You all are the worst emissaries, ever!" the silver dragon declares, shaking with rage.
"Its a game, a game, I'm only playing. " E. Wiggen My PbP games , Roll Dice
and why did I get the CE critters stats e-mailed to me?
I E-mailed them in case you wanted to participate in the Abyssal Arena and control a Chaotic Evil creature and did not own the relevant book. Gansk wants that arena to catch up to the others, so he asked anyone who wants to, to post as Chaotic Evil whenever he wants, even if someone else is controlling the same creature.
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