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<blockquote data-quote="MortalPlague" data-source="post: 7516302" data-attributes="member: 62721"><p>@<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=57112" target="_blank">Gradine</a></u></strong></em>, thank you. It's always a pleasure to compete with you. I'm sure this won't be the last, and I look forward to it. As always, the finish of this competition leaves me chomping at the bit to get involved again.</p><p></p><p>I also have a couple of friends who might like to jump in for next round, and I've promised to furnish them with the link to the contest. I don't believe either of them are current ENWorld members, but that's a deficiency easily fixed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I've competed five years in this competition. I've won twice, but I've been knocked out in the first round three times. It's really a feast or famine thing for me.</p><p></p><p>On the topic of the ingredients, these were certainly a challenge to work with. I started by examining the <strong>Pie Wagon</strong>. It had to be important that the thing was mobile, and it had to be a food that couldn't be anything but pie. What's significant about pie? You fill it with something. And what's more sinister, more October appropriate than to fill it with people?</p><p></p><p>So right away, my entry had a Sweeney Todd thing going on.</p><p></p><p>The tough element for me was the <strong>Red Unicorn</strong>. I just couldn't conceive of a way to have the actual creature in my adventure. I put the necklace in the pie early on, and never thought of anything better.</p><p></p><p>The early drafts had Elsie and Greel, but I always wanted to have a third antagonist to help push things. The <strong>Iron Law</strong> was that the ink to command Shugo was iron ink, but that meant I was using two elements as one. When I came up with the idea of fey walled away by cold iron, it really solved a lot of problems for me. Things clicked nicely into place from there.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>On a separate note, I have a question for all Iron DM competitors. How many of your adventures from Iron DM have hit the table? How many adventures from other contestants have you used?</p><p></p><p>I have only ever run <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?404441-IRON-DM-2014-Tournament/page10&p=6532389&viewfull=1#post6532389" target="_blank">Beneath Ratter's Dell</a>, though I have run it three different times.</p><p></p><p>I wanted to run @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=60965" target="_blank">Iron Sky</a></u></strong></em>'s <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?404441-IRON-DM-2014-Tournament/page5&p=6505361&viewfull=1#post6505361" target="_blank">Against The Abberancy</a> from the same year (and I still do).</p><p></p><p>I'm also hoping to run Carriage Court from this round. In fact, I've started to put together stat blocks and draw up a map of the ruins.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone else had experiences running the competition adventures?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MortalPlague, post: 7516302, member: 62721"] @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=57112"]Gradine[/URL][/U][/B][/I], thank you. It's always a pleasure to compete with you. I'm sure this won't be the last, and I look forward to it. As always, the finish of this competition leaves me chomping at the bit to get involved again. I also have a couple of friends who might like to jump in for next round, and I've promised to furnish them with the link to the contest. I don't believe either of them are current ENWorld members, but that's a deficiency easily fixed. I've competed five years in this competition. I've won twice, but I've been knocked out in the first round three times. It's really a feast or famine thing for me. On the topic of the ingredients, these were certainly a challenge to work with. I started by examining the [B]Pie Wagon[/B]. It had to be important that the thing was mobile, and it had to be a food that couldn't be anything but pie. What's significant about pie? You fill it with something. And what's more sinister, more October appropriate than to fill it with people? So right away, my entry had a Sweeney Todd thing going on. The tough element for me was the [B]Red Unicorn[/B]. I just couldn't conceive of a way to have the actual creature in my adventure. I put the necklace in the pie early on, and never thought of anything better. The early drafts had Elsie and Greel, but I always wanted to have a third antagonist to help push things. The [b]Iron Law[/b] was that the ink to command Shugo was iron ink, but that meant I was using two elements as one. When I came up with the idea of fey walled away by cold iron, it really solved a lot of problems for me. Things clicked nicely into place from there. --- On a separate note, I have a question for all Iron DM competitors. How many of your adventures from Iron DM have hit the table? How many adventures from other contestants have you used? I have only ever run [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?404441-IRON-DM-2014-Tournament/page10&p=6532389&viewfull=1#post6532389"]Beneath Ratter's Dell[/URL], though I have run it three different times. I wanted to run @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=60965"]Iron Sky[/URL][/U][/B][/I]'s [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?404441-IRON-DM-2014-Tournament/page5&p=6505361&viewfull=1#post6505361"]Against The Abberancy[/URL] from the same year (and I still do). I'm also hoping to run Carriage Court from this round. In fact, I've started to put together stat blocks and draw up a map of the ruins. Has anyone else had experiences running the competition adventures? [/QUOTE]
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