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The Tournament Thread is posted. Who is willing to step up to the plate first?

Welcome, one and all, to the 2025 IRON DM Tournament. Eight contestants enter the arena. One emerges as the IRON DM 2025. To keep down the clutter, all scheduling will take place in the scheduling thread. Ingredients, entries, and judgements will all be posted in this thread. As usual...

Alright, we're full up! We'll still leave it open for folks who might want to sign up as alternates; we'll need a few just in case until we get to the end of the first round. I'll work on getting the actual competition thread up and running. In the meantime, I'll start us scheduling for our...

Noobs don't know what pwning means, and here I am wondering what "somoke" is :cool:

Look, everybody loves when Avery Brooks gets to chew scenery, and anytime he goes full Emissary he is feasting, and it is a sight to behold. I think I forgot to mention in there somewhere the "let's give Jake massive PTSD" episode which served as a nice contrast to the "Jake gets bad touched by...

It sounds like he was using ChatGPT as a sounding board for punching up some of the lyrics? Like, I hate AI slop as much as the next gal but it's not like they went "Siri write me a stupid song" because they didn't want to pay actual creatives. Catastrophic climate impact notwithstanding, that's...

Could be worse, you could be starting Jake Browning in your dynasty league this week :cry:

@Rune and @FitzTheRuke, I'll put you down for judges. Thank you both for volunteering! @humble minion, I have you down as a competitor, and @bedir than will be listed as an alternate for now. Who else is willing to enter the ring? Eight will enter, but... well, I guess all eight will also...

As mentioned by others, the "DM" is an artifact of the origins of the competition; we welcome adventures of all systems, including systemless adventures! Very few of my own submissions were from D&D, so there's no worries about stat blocks!

From Discipline & Punish & Dungeons & Dragons: "Next we come to the panopticon, the ideal shape and structure of the prison. Also, interestingly enough, most schools. And also most dungeon complexes, particularly those managed by wizards and beholders"

Seriously... you couldn't wait for me to finish writing the new post :LOL:

And since we love our cross-promotion here, make sure you check out the Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest, which is a lot like IRON DM except there's only one ingredient (pumpkin spice) and your entry can be another RPG-related, not just an adventure, and there's only one round, and only one judge, and...

Like the legend of the Phoenix... All ends with beginnings... What keeps the planet spinning... The force from the beginning... -Poet laureates Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, presumably regarding Iron DM 2025 Once upon a time, over twenty years ago, one man had a dream,… to...

Don't spoil the surprise!

What an interesting experiment... I hope it fails! :cool:

Makes one think twice about how wistfully Sisko remembers their old hijinks

It's okay to post about Pumpkin Spice, OP

If you're gonna sass, at least sass with style

But think about all the high-quality complaining he'll get out of it first!