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Oh wow, the wood golem figurehead with a swinging anchor is genius. I'm using that :) You could go with the Davey Jones Locker theme from PotC, Davey Jones as a zombified pirate captain, all seaweed, tentacles and 'haaarharhahar!'s. Stick an annoying but apparently inconsequential lich parrot...

I came back to D&D after several years just recently, previously playing house-rule pbem, tabletop CoC and a variety of GURPs one-offs. I upgraded my 3.0 core books with 3.5 in January (the boxed set no less) and I'm happy with it though the rules are just as horribly complicated as I remember...

OK, as previously mentioned- the questions being asked are not asked outright. They represent the ideal end result question. In putting across the jist of the question (and hopefully reaching an answer) Baran and Aranel use a mixture of staccato questioning, reasoning, tact, subtlety and...

Who was it said stories aren't written, they're rewritten? Well, whoever it was, they knew their bananas.

Thankyou Rodrigo for the critique :) You make some interesting points. Yep, I could have made more of the larper picture. More descriptive, less relying on the picture to do the describing. It's something I think you get used to as you do more of these and I have a lot of admiration for those...

i hope, if I go through to the next rounds, I don't come up against you Eeralai. That Chili Palmer avatar is *very* intimidating :) (Yes, I realise I'm the one with the fiery eye of Sauron, but even that pales into insignificance alongside the steely gaze of the world's coolest movie mogul.)

Thanks for posting this Dave. I think I'll give it a go.

Well, the main problem is time. As in, I don't have any. In an ideal world I'd like to sit down and give each story a full and gushing appraisal (no criticism to be honest, the luxury of not being a judge and I don't really have any anyway), but that Dlsharrock lives in an alternative universe...

Note to self: don't ever ever *ever* volunteer to judge a future Smackdown! I honestly don't know how you guys are going to differentiate. I don't think I've seen such a great collection of stories, even in a book of collected short stories, in a long time. What a bunch of show-stealers! That...

And very scary it was too. Where will it end, I fear ;P Yes, we are go, but with a slight technical hitch in that I have run out of time. Got myself signed up for the Ceramic DM Smackdown and it took me all evening to write my first story (which is a bit crap as it turns out, probably because...

Irrespective of win or lose, that was a lot of fun :) I can't think of a title though. It didn't seem appropriate to give it one either. Is a title essential? Couldn't find anything in the rules one way or the other. EDIT: Oh, and also, I substituted an i for a 1 in :):):) for tat because...

I'll tell you one thing, being dead sure gives you a fresh perspective on life. Ok, there's the novelty stage. You get to hang out with Elvis, ask God what it was all about, tourist stuff. Once you settle in, though- once you get past the whole shock/wonder/philosophy of actually being a...

I have eyeballed the images and like what I see. I haven't got the faintest blinkin' idea what to write though - lucky I'm doing braindead work today and have plenty of time to think of something extraordinarily witty and clever. Something about testing random sci-fi-ey things, maybe- or a...

You could kill two birds with one stone and graze the lawn. I hear grass is mighty good brain food.

Or he considers you such insignificant competition he figures he's assured a win this round and is merely doing some pre-emptive smacktalk with his next round opponent. A kind of 'why unnecessarily wear out your keyboard' sort of situation?

Might as well thrash it out here, then afterward if all concerned could just edit their posts into SBLOCKs that would be helpful in decluttering. Rollplay. Roleplay will deal with far fewer dice rolls (if any, to be honest) and require a greater element of 'roleplaying' the answers out of...

My own preference is also for the movie version (I like that descriptive) and Binder's reasoning mirrors my own. Given the turn rate and the fact this is a forum game, I think it could shave weeks off the campaign and, as I already professed in the OOC thread, I'm keen to get the game moving...

Watching reruns of Queer Eye and crying when the straight guy makes good? Ah crud. A pox on my inability to read world time zones properly. That's 1:00 am in the morning, so if I don't confirm I've seen the pics for a while it's because I'm in bed, getting my daughter ready for school, taking...

Fred, can you have a look at post 87, rollplay vs roleplay. I need a definitive preference, though I'm guessing you've already read it and prefer roleplay. It just wasn't very clear which was your choice. To save you reading through, so far the roleplays have it.

Any idea when my round will start? Is FickleGM still playing? Fingers crossed (and toes)