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ok, Rechan vs Atras; your ingredients will be going up at around midnight tonight. you will have until midnight Sunday to finish. I came up with a very challenging set (and then decided to save them for later in the contest). so the list you'll be getting will be much friendlier
IVV, I also liked your entry very much. I also have a small question:
Spoiler:
Why a glabrezu ? They're tempters so that kind of fits, but how about the ghoulish Maurezhi. ? Wouldn't that have been a great monster for the food/gluttony theme?
My match is over, so I'll talk about it without sblocks.
I felt the glabrezu, being a tempter, was a better choice in this case because he wasn't about gluttony, but comparative advantage in nutrition. Imagine if no one could cook anything. We wouldn't be able to eat pretty much any grasses--no wheat, rice, corn, etc. For the most part, we'd starve. The comparative advantage in nutrition gives such a leg up, it's all the temptation he needs. Furthermore, the glabrezu can cast reverse gravity, which the monastery appropriated to be able to fly over the volcano. The challenge rating of the glabrezu was also better for a party at levels 7-8: too high for direct combat, but too low to trivially crush the party as collateral damage. Finally, the Maurezhi are more about eating than about cooking. Also, the Maurezhi aren't particularly intelligent--it would be more hard pressed for one to maintain the focus over five thousand years to eventually escape. I felt that for all the above reasons, the glabrezu was the best fit for the adventure.
Certainly a challenging competition. I look forward to seeing what CleverNickName puts in!
Also, I really like those elements for the 4th contest. Some of those are quality.
__________________ 4th Ed Chars Fallen:
Spoiler:
Gavin Ward - Male Human Warlord 1 - The party started a bar fight. The fellow who escaped brought his bandit buddies back and they killed Gavin (and nearly three other party members). He bled out while lying on the floor.
4th Ed Kills:
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Cornell Butterworth - Male Human Wizard 1 - Knocked unconscious by a kobold dragonshield the fighter ignored, then done in by the kobold wyrmpriest's acid breath.
Lithia - Female Elven Ranger 11 - Contracted mummy rot, which eventually did her in.
Brendan Stetlan - Male Human Fighter 4 - Knocked unconscious in combat, then thrown to the wolves.
Vindicator Mindartis Valenae - Eladrin Paladin 5 - Dropped by a githzerai monk (L6 elite), and killed when the rogue threw him off the balcony to try and get his body to safety.
Vongar - Male Dwarf Paladin 1 - Fell in battle after defeating Irontooth, but not his bodyguard.
Straef - Male Elf Ranger 1 - Fell in battle to Irontooth's Wyrmpriest.
Also 6 miscellaneous game day kills.
Last edited by MortalPlague; 17th October 2009 at 12:49 PM..
Win or lose, I'd just like to say that this was the most fun I've ever had creating an adventure.
Nice entry, CNN. You've got some really good ideas going on there.
__________________ 4th Ed Chars Fallen:
Spoiler:
Gavin Ward - Male Human Warlord 1 - The party started a bar fight. The fellow who escaped brought his bandit buddies back and they killed Gavin (and nearly three other party members). He bled out while lying on the floor.
4th Ed Kills:
Spoiler:
Cornell Butterworth - Male Human Wizard 1 - Knocked unconscious by a kobold dragonshield the fighter ignored, then done in by the kobold wyrmpriest's acid breath.
Lithia - Female Elven Ranger 11 - Contracted mummy rot, which eventually did her in.
Brendan Stetlan - Male Human Fighter 4 - Knocked unconscious in combat, then thrown to the wolves.
Vindicator Mindartis Valenae - Eladrin Paladin 5 - Dropped by a githzerai monk (L6 elite), and killed when the rogue threw him off the balcony to try and get his body to safety.
Vongar - Male Dwarf Paladin 1 - Fell in battle after defeating Irontooth, but not his bodyguard.
Straef - Male Elf Ranger 1 - Fell in battle to Irontooth's Wyrmpriest.
Timing works fine for me. I won't be around much Sunday evening, but Monday's pretty open and I'll still have some time on Tuesday for spit and polish if needed.
Nice entry, CNN. You've got some really good ideas going on there.
Thanks, MP. But I think your adventure had the most "going on," especially where the ingredients are concerned. You used all of the ingredients equally well, where I made really strong use of two ingredients and sort of glossed over the others.
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Originally Posted by Radiating Gnome
I think, CleverNickName, you should keep doing what you're doing well, but if you expect to take your game beyond the second round, you're going to have to do better with the ingredients, too. Don't settle for lip service.
Thanks for your honest feedback. You totally caught me...that backpack and those three wishes really gave me trouble. I just couldn't figure out how to include them without it feeling contrived. In the end, I just sort of paid lip service to them and crossed my fingers.
I'll take your advice to heart. I see that I've got a lot to learn.
Timing works fine for me. I won't be around much Sunday evening, but Monday's pretty open and I'll still have some time on Tuesday for spit and polish if needed.
Okay. Let's aim for 6:PM this evening, then.
Thanks, -- N
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Yeah. I was hoping to see a loser's bracket in this tournament, but I didn't want to say anything before judgement had been passed on my first entry (cuz it would look lame suggesting it beforehand!).
tournaments with loser's brackets are always fun. Simply make the last round of the tournament (winner's bracket vs. loser's bracket) one in which the winner can either ignore one or two ingredients, or the loser has to use multiple ingredients... or, better yet, make the ingredient number the same, but the loser has to observe a tight word count restriction (has to be 1500 words or less, for example).
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Took me a lot longer to actually get the whole thing on paper than I thought, but mine is up now. It is really pure 4E, so if you don't like 4E, just give it a FAIL and move on.
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