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Ceramic DM?
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I'd love to get back into Ceramic DM! The last time I participated was some years ago and I was eviscerated by the dread Pirate Cat in the opening round! 
I don't even remember seeing a link to it for years. As I recall it used to be run by a fellow whose handle was a chemical formula related to actual ceramic or clay or something (he was a potter by trade if my memory serves).
EDIT - Alsih2o was the member who ran it.
I don't even remember seeing a link to it for years. As I recall it used to be run by a fellow whose handle was a chemical formula related to actual ceramic or clay or something (he was a potter by trade if my memory serves).
EDIT - Alsih2o was the member who ran it.
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Ceramic DM was a creative competition where members of the forum would compete against one another to see who could write the best short story or adventure outline. Each competitor was given a group of a random images and they had to be used as part of your story. It was organized in brackets, so the winner of each round moved on and went up against another competitor, and so forth, until a single winner was crowned.
It was a ton of fun.
Here is an old post by Piratecat which details what it was all about (http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/82959-spring-ceramic-dm-winner-posted.html)
It was a ton of fun.
Here is an old post by Piratecat which details what it was all about (http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/82959-spring-ceramic-dm-winner-posted.html)
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Mirth
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I was the winner for the first and second Ceramic DM contests back in late 2002, early 2003. Fantastic competition! Clay did a great job laying it out and keeping it going. Sadly, I think Clay, like I, faded into obscurity when life came along to take us out of the game for awhile...
Piratecat
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He had a disagreement with some folks here, along with some personal life stuff going on, and scaled back his time here. We're friends on Facebook, but I haven't seen him on a message board in ages.
The idea behind Ceramic DM (so named because Alsih20 is a potter) is that contestants have three days (a strict time limit) to write short stories based on photos given to them by the judges. Stories are usually 2000-5000 words long and must incorporate every photo as if it were an illustration in the story. It's not easy. Each person goes head to head against another person, and one person emerges victorious. So with 8 contestants, it'd be round 1 (4 winners), round 2 (2 winners), round 3.
What you need is generally three judges who have time to read the stories and comment on them during judging. Any volunteers?
The idea behind Ceramic DM (so named because Alsih20 is a potter) is that contestants have three days (a strict time limit) to write short stories based on photos given to them by the judges. Stories are usually 2000-5000 words long and must incorporate every photo as if it were an illustration in the story. It's not easy. Each person goes head to head against another person, and one person emerges victorious. So with 8 contestants, it'd be round 1 (4 winners), round 2 (2 winners), round 3.
What you need is generally three judges who have time to read the stories and comment on them during judging. Any volunteers?
steeldragons
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Hmmm. I'm tempted to want to compete.
But considering I have a good amount of time (and competed in the last "Iron DM"), I could be willing to be a judge for this contest, instead.
--SD
SteelDraco
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It's a lot of fun. I've done it twice - wrote a piratey fantasy story that got stomped by PirateCat and a Call of Cthulhu-ish modern tale that won a round before Real Life pulled me away. I'd love to see it come back. I might throw my hat into the ring to compete, though I haven't written fiction in a long while.
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