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I am very sorry you took insult. I am afraid I must not understand your terms, as you use them, nor how what I described is different than what you wrote, for I do not understand how a principle of play distinguishes itself from a rule, nor how acheiving the stated goals of the game is...

Personally, I would have gone for flavor over mechanics. For instance: The Goose is a primal guardian, one of a handful of legendary primals, of which the tarrasque is the best known in all the multiverse. Like its distant kin, it spends much time in slumber, but when it awakens, its power is...

It helps to remember that ENWorld was created as a Dungeons and Dragons Forum, and is still largely focused on that aspect of the hobby. The RBDMC was not the real reason that the initial contests defaulted to Fantasy, it was just the nature of the board. Still is, and D&D is the default mode of...

The problem with writing in haste is that it is easier to leave the wrong impression, so I will say a few words more on my thoughts regarding the entry so as to clarify this point: my judgment was not made because of a difference is playstyles. While I was upfront that certain styles of games...

@Snarf Zagyg - I hate to think of being the cause of anything eating at anyone for days, so for any consternation I may have caused with my wording I apologize. I wrote hastily and may have come across more caustic than I intended to. Having reread your entry, I will stand by my critique but I...

I put all my other work on hold this morning in order to put together my judgment, which has now been posted.

Iron DM 2023 Round 3, Final Match @Snarf Zagyg vs. @Whizbang Dustyboots As we enter the last match of this year’s Iron DM, we have Snarf Zagyg giving us yet again another self-contained game disguised as an adventure, this time a storytelling meta-game with three antagonistic goals meant to...

I apologize for not getting my judgment done yet. This day has been... something. I will do my best to have it done by tomorrow.

I have, in my time, played in the Known World, Krynn, the Forgotten Realms, a smattering of Greyhawk, Ravenloft, Golarion, Kalamar, 1920s Cthulhu, the World of Darkness, the Wild West, Middle Earth, Smurf Village, Kaidan, the Realm of Dreams, New York with the Ghostbusters, a variety of homebrew...

My judgment for Match 2 is up. I apologize for the delay in getting it done. I had a 4H zoo trip yesterday which literally consumed my entire day, and for which I had to work on other stuff overtime on Friday to make sure I had all my work done before losing Saturday.

Iron DM 2023 Round 2 Match 2 @Snarf Zagyg vs. @Iron Sky Of all the rounds I have seen thus far in this year’s Iron DM contest, this was the hardest one for me to decide which one I liked better, Snarf’s “Everyone has gone to the Rageture” (hearafter Rage), or Iron Sky’s “The Doom’s of...

Life is busy for me this weekend. I will try to have my match 2 judgment up tomorrow morning, but if not it won't be until Sunday afternoon.

Another judgment is in... nailbiting can continue.

Iron DM 2023 Round 2, Match 1 @FitzTheRuke vs. @Whizbang Dustyboots For the first match of our second round, we have two adventures, each centered around the idea of a reality show featuring adventurers. Surprisingly, to me, neither adventure went for an X-crawl style game, opting instead, in...

I will do my best to render a judgment on r2m1 tonight.

There is nothing really all that secret or esoteric about my method of devising contributions to the list of ingredients. I just brainstorm a variety of things or creatures, and then try to apply an interesting adjective to each one. The nouns are generally just words that catch my fancy as I am...

A Judgment has been posted for Round 1, Match 2 @FitzTheRuke vs. @Kobold Stew

Iron DM 2023 Round 1, Match 2 @FitzTheRuke vs. @Kobold Stew As I have in years past, I will use my traditional method of scoring entries as it helps me put my thoughts in order and I am too indolent to come up with another system. For those not familiar with how it works, I semi-arbitrarily...

There's been a lot of distractions today as I hammer out the round 1, match 2 judgment, but it is getting done.

I have read both entries a couple of times and will have a judgement sometime tomorrow.