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A Title/Concept I have been playing around with in my head: Iron DM Tactics I also liked the idea of building different things along the course of the contest: a cursed item, an interesting locale, an interesting NPC, a recurring villain, a magic item, a monster, and then finally an actual...

Trivia question I am interested in for those doing the sorting: who has the most entries over the course of the years?

Personally, I don't see why you can't just hijack this thread now... it's on topic and its what the rest of us are doing anyway. :unsure::sneaky:

Personally, I would stay away from running a contest that judges game mechanics.

That tracks with what I was thinking of doing, something close anyway. I don't know if doing it once a week is feasible over the long haul, and I don't know if we could get that many contestants, but building up to a final design/adventure is what I was looking at. I also thought about having...

I waffle. Sometimes I tend to think that the word count should probably be reversed, with the later rounds making the word count less, rather than more, but I get the reason for doing it the other way and reverse myself. Either way, when judges confer on rules prior to the contest, I am always...

I am definitely interested in doing something and am brainstorming through some ideas myself. I will send you a message when I have them more concrete (or alternately you can do the same).

After 20 years, we are probably ripe for a spin-off series or something. The primary problem with doing Iron DM twice a year is scheduling judges and finding enough competitors. I seem to recall that doing it twice a year made that somewhat harder, though I may be misremembering. A competition...

My final judgment is posted. We need to wait on Rune to finalize the judgments but I want to take a moment and thank all the participants this year (last year). Thanks! I look forward to the next tournament. I'm kinda getting the itch to enter again as a contestant. :)

Judgment for Round 3, Championship @humble minion vs. @FitzTheRuke We come to our championship match, with two very different entries; one a slice-of-life urban sci-fi-fantasy romp with time shenanigans, and the other a fairy-tale flavored Al-Qadim Dungeons and Dragons adventure. Our first...

My apologies for the delay in getting to the judging. Familial circumstances have prevented me from being online much. I will do my best to have a judgment ready by tomorrow afternoon sometime.

Judgment for Round 3, Third Place Match @Iron Sky vs. @el-remmen This match, for third place this (last) year gives us two experienced contestants doing it old-school: six ingredients, one hour, no word limit. Our first entry, Iron Sky’s Lithovorisaur (hereafter Rock) is billed as a Weird West...

I have read both. Pretty sure I know how my judgement is going to go but won't be able to finish it until this afternoon.

@el-remmen and @Iron Sky - 3rd place match ingredients have been posted. I went ahead and posted it 10 minutes early, but the dead-line is 3 p.m. EST.

Round 3, 3rd Place Match: el-remmen vs Iron Sky @el-remmen and @Iron Sky, you have 1 hour (until 3 p.m. EST) to post your entries to this thread, using the ingredients provided. You do not have a word-count, but all ingredients must be used and judges are free to penalize late entries as they...

I have played 5e in one campaign. I must confess to not being as well versed in the edition-specific vocabulary as all that. My current RPG reading is the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition, newest Runequest and Pathfinder 2e. I have a wide exposure to a plethora of systems, but no longer the time to...

Now that Rune has weighed in, I'll add an addendum to my judgement. After explanation by Iron Sky, and more thought I might have added another "point" or two for a few ingredient uses to Postmortem, if I had understood them better, but my judgement would remain the same. I notice all three of...

On the question of a 3rd place match, I don't really have strong feelings one way or the other. If we do it that's fine with me. If the contestants can fit it in before the final match then sure, I guess.

Judgment for Round 2, Match 2 @Iron Sky vs. @FitzTheRuke Wow. One of these entries is definitely easier to grok than the other. But does that make it better, worse, or not really matter in the end. Let’s find out. Our first entry, Iron Sky’s Postmortem (hereafter TPK) aka. Death Race in the...

My apologies for not having done a judgment yesterday for match 2. For various reasons which because of board policy shall remain undisclosed, my head was not in the right place and I did not even think about gaming all day. I will endeavor to get to it by this afternoon or evening.