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More and more posts of "I have the 3.5 books!" going up, and each day I check the SRD site and it still says 04/08/03. Is there any word on when the SRD will be updated? For that matter, isn't Dieties & Demigods and/or Epic Level Handbook going into the SRD sometime in the next month or so? I...

Re: Re: Iron DM: format and philosophy And sometimes not even then, if I recall correctly ;).

Hm, not quite the same image anymore. May rename this one Breathe Fire and keep both. Maybe drop the damage on the cone version. Uh, wow. That's some impressive 1st level spell, there. Still, this is probably a good change, and a good cow to kill. Not in my game. Bah! That's kind of cool...

There are distinct disadvantages to power matching. 1) As mentioned, the poor sap who gets thrown against the current champion (or even just a very strong past competitor) may feel shut out. At the very least, unnerved (on the other hand, this isn't the friendship club ;)). As a side note, my...

Lightful, I think we have an area of disagreement that we will just have to agree to let lie. I think that IronDM, as it was run in this very instance, required good scenario design, best use of ingredients, and creativity. I feel that Rune did an excellent job of requiring these elements, and I...

My 1st round entry is the one that I think is more likely to win in IronDM. I have problems liking it myself, because of all the stacked clichés and fairly straight-forward design (it offered plenty of twisty things, but the scenario itself was "chase the ferret, fight the harpy, collect $200...

Thanks, Rune :D. The second one is my favorite, too, because it forced me outside of my usual comfortable boundaries. I'm usually at my best when I'm experimenting, but at the same time, I'm a dreadful coward. I owe an immense debt to anonystu for blazing the trail for me with his corpse...

You do yourself a disservice. Whatever the circumstances of people dropping out, you earned that victory. But, uh, yeah, I'm never doing that again.

Will you marry me? ;) Mostly it comes from the jokes, I think. And I've probably contributed with my talk about whoring and hired hacking :o. The thing is, "pandering to the judge" MEANS "writing a damned fine scenario", because that's what the judge wants to see. If I didn't trust the judge to...

The thing is, IronDM is not subjective. There are plenty of comments about the "whims of the judge" and whatnot, but nemmerle and incognito and Rune have all put a lot of effort and thought into each round, and explaining why one entry is better or worse than the other. If there is disagreement...

Re: Re: Iron DM: format and philosophy I would like to see something like this, eventually, but IronDM is still pretty young. We've got a record of who's won in the past, and when there are enough winners, we could probably just send out some e-mail invites or something. Here's the problem: Even...

Firstly, let me just say that the most telling aspect of IronDM is that it is successful. Most of the suggestions I'm reading here sound like "add a committee" and "add formal rules", which while very democratic and right-thinking, tends to result in failure for many creative endeavors. Keep in...

Exposition It all started with leach. Sure, I didn't use the ingredient much, but when I saw the word, I realized that Rune was planning something tricksy. So I carefully checked and thought about the definitions of each word, possibly TOO carefully - I definitely gambled badly on certain...

Pokepriest Grip Stick "Gimme a d8" Mostly, though, we just ask to be hit with a cure light.

I wouldn't have drawn attention to it, either - we all already knew Crothian was cool, and there's not enough bubblegum in existence for this whole class ;). Still, very cool. Far more generous than I think I'm capable of being - I'd have made a big pile of it and curled atop like Smaug...

Re: Re: Re: IRON DM SUMMER 2003 JUDGMENT! Seasong removes foot from mouth long enough to say, "Well, I'll be damned. A magic item, you say? In the DMG, no less, you say? Well. Well, well, well. I'll be damned." Then he re-inserts foot in mouth. Boy, I feel stupid. But it has to be a cat. I was...

Re: IRON DM SUMMER 2003 JUDGMENT! And well earned! Now I'm going to nitpick a few things that bothered me ;) (and sincere apologies for the nitpicking). I am unhappy with this ingredient, both its inclusion and the judgement rendered on it. I know I screwed up enough things in my scenario that...

When I was but a tender lad of ten, I quit playing Pretend Games in order to upgrade to Pretend Games With Rules. Nowadays, a do a bit of both. There is literally no period of time in my life when roleplaying wasn't a part of it. It's like breathing. When I stop breathing, I'll stop...

For diddling, here's my general reasoning: The diddling rule was to encourage fast, decisive action; to discourage hiding, long periods of buffing, and running away. At the same time, I didn't want it to be TOO severe - a slight disadvantage in the points aspect of the game, but not something...

I haven't had time yet this morning to do much of either.