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I'm of two minds about that (re:hosting). If I have the time, I honestly wouldn't mind doing it. I legitimately don't know what my schedule will look like in two months. The wife and I started foster parenting this past March and we are undergoing a dual set of transitions with children about...

Talk about taking a loss hard. :oops: I know I've groused a time or two about losing (especially that one time twenty years ago...), but I hope it always came out as the amused, good-natured grousing I meant it as. It's not like there's really anything on the line when you lose except personal...

In a sense though, everyone is using the same ingredients - there is just more leeway as to when to use them. It was definitely one reason though I simply went with the - judges pick the one you like best using the ingredients. It becomes much more subjective when not everyone is making quite...

In our most recent contest, after thought about this very question I believe I labeled them Round 3, Third Place Match; and Round 3, Championship Match. I thought doing so made it clear enough as to what was what.

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I got one immediately.

We could just have each judge assign 0-2 points for each ingredient used, and how well it was used I suppose (score for each round would be between 0 and 16 points.) To the issue of drop-outs, it is a valid concern. The only way to mitigate it would be to have secret scores I think. If we did...

Updating to reflect discussions... Iron DM Tactics (Draft 2) The Concept: Round Topics: Ingredients and the Ingredient Pool: Entries: Timetable: Scoring: Genre and Mechanics:

Also instead of "design a monster,"... create a "monster, creature or monstrous villain." might open up more scope for contestants to take it in different directions.

This brings to mind that the kind of ingredients appropriate for a monster might be a bit different than the kind of ingredients appropriate for an adventure.

I like the theming. In drafting the rules, I was trying to leave it open to individual judges as to how to choose the categories for each round. Also, a consideration: do you want to broadcast ahead of time what each week will hold, or have the general topics known but not the order they will...

I find it interesting. Don't stop on our account. :cool:

Work on two. But with only a 1000 words total expected a week, that is still a lot of flexible time and in truth, most of these catagories are not going to be that hard. I think its a good idea. But I could be wrong. :)

Behold the wonders of group brainstorming! Two categories a week, for three weeks would work beautifully.

I seem to be in the minority with the week thing. The consensus seems to be about 5 initial rounds of 1 week and then a final 6th round? Edit: Though I see that Rune agrees with me that 6 weeks makes the momentum thing harder. Edit 2: Maybe 6 rounds of 5 days each? Edit 3: Also, does the...

6 rounds with 4 days each (3 to write and 1 to judge) and then a 7th round with 6 days (5 to write), would be about a month. My experience is that the longer things like this go on, the more likely to run out of steam by the end, which is why I think trying to keep it within a month would be...

That's why its a first draft. Feedback is dearly welcomed. What would you think a more practical schedule, especially if we were to try and keep it contained within 1 month? Would every 5 days (6-7 rounds) be more doable? Or even every 4 days? 72 hours to write 500 words does not seem that...

Maybe run something in April this year, and then try to have Iron DM in October? I suspect that October would work better than November and December as the Halloween season is less hectic and more creatively conducive than the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year season. That would mean recruitment...

Here is my first draft of a potential spin-off competition. I decided not to go with elimination as I think it would be more fun, longer without it, and instead of week long rounds, went with ten three-day rounds with a fairly flexible submission schedule and the ability to do some work ahead on...

An aside... Dog Days and Kobold Knights remains one of my favorite titles out of all the things I have ever titled.