Iron DM 2009 - FINAL MATCH - it's over!

[Nifft]

Oh, and Nifft - the kuo toa don't have the trident because they're searchign for it, too. I didn't make that clear enough. Which is too bad, but thems the breaks.

Right. My issue was: if the Kuo-Toa have been in the fort long enough to electrify it, why haven't they found the Trident? What is it about the PCs that enables them to find the central chamber first, when the fish-dudes have been looking far longer? IMHO that needs to be justified. (I mean, Kuo-Toa have, like, really big eyes, and stuff...)

Anyway. Darn good work, despite my best efforts to poke holes in both.

Links & summary updated.

 

[Iron Sky]

Whew, I really had no idea how that was going to go and I learned even more in this round than I did in the others.

Thanks a ton judges for your all your work on this; I think in some ways your job was harder than ours was.

Thanks Wik! I would have been just as happy if you had won. Seriously, I wrote one of the entries and if I'd been judging I'd have had a hard time picking one.

I also totally know what you mean about leaving neat descriptive things out for space reasons - I've been highly conscious about that myself since my first entry was 12+ pages long.

Tough to judge where to cut detail because of space and where it'll give you that slight edge that sparks something in your reader. I also originally had jungle and forest alternating in mine - for the same reason you mention - but I changed it all to jungle at the last minute.

Now I'm going to have to pick up a copy of Paranoia too... maybe once my 4e campaign I'm running hits Paragon and we take a bit of a break.

Looking forward to the final round!

 

[CleverNickName]

Way to go, IVV! It's somewhat comforting to know that I lost to a finalist.

Nifft, I know that you were hoping to compete in the next Iron DM tournament. Do you have any idea who would take your place as judge, if your wish were granted? I'm not a Rat Bastard DM, but my players will vouch for me being both a rat and a bastard for nearly twenty years. I'd be happy to try my hand at judging.

But I'd be happy to compete again, too...so don't worry about any hurt feelers if I'm not cut out for judging. I just thought I'd offer.

 

[Thasmodious]

Congrats to IVV and Iron Sky. Blow us away in the final round or we'll pelt you with rotten e-vegetables!

 

[Iron Sky]

For final match times, normally weekends would be fine, but this weekend I might be traveling across the state for a tournament. I'm not positive if I'm going yet, but if I do, I'll be unavailable from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning...

During the week is usually find for me(though tomorrow I got an odd job so I'm going to be working 9:30am to 9pm). Wed-Thurs works for me (though probably not for IVV).

I'll decide in the next day or to whether I'm going to the tournament or not and I'll let you guys know as soon as I make up my mind.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

I can swing a Thurs-Fri competition if that will work with Iron Sky.

Congratulations, and I look forward to our battle!

 

[Nifft]

Nifft, I know that you were hoping to compete in the next Iron DM tournament. Do you have any idea who would take your place as judge, if your wish were granted?

Eh, no idea. This is our first multi-judge tournament. It seems to be working pretty well.

Honestly, while I'd love to compete, it's also been a load of fun to judge -- it is a lot of work, but splitting up the early rounds helped a great deal.

My advice to a perspective judge: start a thread in 2-3 months saying, "HEY I WANNA IRONDM, who will co-judge with me?"

That's also pretty much my advice to anyone who enjoyed (reading or participating in) the contest, and wants another one: wait 2-3 months and post about how you want to compete in... uh... IronDM: Ratty Valentines Day Edition.

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Anyway. Scheduling for the FINAL MATCH. Thu-Fri sounds fine.

Thanks, -- N

 

[Iron Sky]

I can swing a Thurs-Fri competition if that will work with Iron Sky.

Congratulations, and I look forward to our battle!

That should work for me as well.

I'm looking forward to it too!

 

[Nifft]

Just so we're all on EXACTLY the same page: final match will start Thursday at HIGH NOON, Eastern Standard Time (aka EN World time).

Cheers, -- N

 

[Iron Sky]

So... 5am my time. Guess I'm getting up early this Thursday!

While I'm here, I was wondering how you guys come up with the ingredient lists. I looked up a bunch of random word generators on the internet, but they are a bit too random(and aren't likely to pump out D&D magic items).

Do you have guidelines among the judges for exactly what the ingredient list should include?