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@AustinHolm and @Fenris-77, my judgement for the championship match has been posted.

Rune’s Judgement for IRON DM 2025 Championship Match: AustinHolm vs Fenris-77 Overview At last we come to the culmination of this tournament. Both entries are polished and well-presented. One seems tailor-made to appeal to my tastes to such a degree that I have to wonder if its author...

Just to clarify: the anthology was always meant to collect entries with an eye toward use at the table (especially on short notice). It never attempted to collect entries that were best at being Iron DM entries (many didn’t even win their matches). For that reason, elements important to the...

IRON DM 2025: Round 3, Championship Match, AustinHolm vs. Fenris-77 @AustinHolm and @Fenris-77, you have 48 hours to post your entries to this thread. Please limit your entry to a title, a list of the ingredients used and 2000 additional words. Please include your list of ingredients at the...

@AustinHolm and @Fenris-77, your championship match has begun!

How about nowish? Ingredients incoming.

Why don’t you give us a cut-off time?

@Fenris-77 and @AustinHolm, As it’s been over an hour since both of you last posted, if both of you would kindly confirm that you are ready right now, one of us judges will go ahead and begin your match.

In that case, perhaps you can incentivize the kind of results you’re looking for. Give them XP (or some other meta-currency) for each enemy that returns to full health and leaves the area. Make it clear that the goal of the scene is to see where it began and reward them when they get there.

Conceptually, I like it, but what are the players going to do throughout the combat? How will they even know what they can do? What will a PC’s turn look like? Will they be hitting opponents back to life and then running backwards away from them, too?

Yes. Please continue to use spoiler tags to hide any conversation about the match until after Gradine’s judgement has been rendered.

@Fenris-77 and @GMMichael, my judgement for Round2, Match 2 has been posted.

Rune’s Judgement for IRON DM 2025 Round 2, Match 2: Fenris-77 vs GMMichael Overview With this match, we have two adventures that differ in setting, style, and even tone. GMMichael’s A Convenient Prophecy (“Prophecy”) is a fairly simple investigation into what ultimately turns out to be a hoax...

Apologies. We gave you a particularly challenging set of ingredients. Particularly challenging sets of ingredients require additional scrutiny. Additional scrutiny takes both extra time and extra effort, which in turn must be woven around the aforementioned real-life obligations as they...

I’m taking notes, but real life stuff going to keep interrupting. Probably won’t be the first one, this time. In the meantime, feel free to talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: Humorous Tavern Names