Clubhouse: The Shearing Pen

[Infiniti2000]

PJSlavner, do you want to organize and moderate an exhibition arena?

Yeah, because organizing and moderating three children isn't enough. LOL!

 

[Gansk]

Hey, maybe he's got the itch again!

 

[PJSlavner]

My answer below is before I saw your response, Infiniti. You hit it exactly right.

Not really, unless no one else wants to. Any volunteers?

 

[Gansk]

Well I just got offered a new job, so I'll be taking a week off after October 13th. I should be able to do something then, but after that I'll have to be a good little boy and not log on during work hours.

I recommend everybody to buy a DVD of Crash or Terminator II or Saw II or Reservoir Dogs!

I'll be working for the film studio that sells these - my first and last plug!

 

[PJSlavner]

Woo hoo! Sixteen years at the same place with not enough work to get through the day finally got to you. Congratulations on being two for two on job interviews in your lifetime.

Gansk, just make sure you do not have to work Saturdays so our weekly D&D game can continue.

 

[Greybar]

Not really, unless no one else wants to. Any volunteers?

I'll volunteer to referee, since I brought the idea up.

Do we have two people who'd like to run alignments?
First two people to name an alignment are in (assuming Gansk is okay with me running it).
I'll tell everyone the target CR after choosing an alignment, which should also help avoid meta-strategy for a particular broken combo.

How's this for the exhibition test rules:
* Arena geography as is being used now
* On-Deck area behind force wall.
* Forcewall briefly parts to allow combatant to enter by their own power, or tport.
* Spells that have target of "personal" or "touch" can be cast while On-Deck.
* Each side chooses three combatants, and the order in which they will appear, in advance.
* The first combatant will have one round to buff, as in the ToC
* CRs of Dragons are considered to be 1 higher than list.

Anything else to throw in the mix?

 

[Gansk]

I'll play if I'm eligible.

 

[Infiniti2000]

I'll volunteer to play the alignment that goes up against Gansk. Gansk can pick the two alignments. But, note that the ToC is not limited to one round and that the purpose of the on deck circle is to negate the inherent advantages of dragons--thus, their CR should not be altered.

 

[Greybar]

Gansk, you are definitely eligible. Time for you to have some arena-pounding fun.

I was thinking driving home, and had a kind of stream of thought thing going
* that I often get slowed down for not having books handy.
* and I don't have Gansk's super-list
* but if the exhibition match only had SRD creatures I wouldn't need books
* but then I might have trouble getting enough beasties
* hey On-Deck circle makes me think of baseball
* what if it was a 9-beastie lineup for the baseball theme? that'd average out
the weaker or unlucky combatants too
* but where am I going to get 9 equal CR guys of one alignment?
* hey, in the baseball analogy they certainly don't have to be equal, and it might be interesting trying to decide whether to run your top-CR fighter first or last.
* and what if it's just good vs. evil? this is an exhibition, like the all-star game.

So, long string done, that's my thought. It happens to cover Infiniti's comment neatly, to some degree. So anyway, here's the lineups I'm thinking of for the two sides. Gansk gets to pick first.

Good
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Mature Adult Brass Dragon (CR15)
Astral Deva (CR14)
Trumpet Archon (CR14)

Unicorn, Celestial Charger (CR13)
Ghaele (CR13)
Young Adult Silver Dragon (CR13)

Leonal (CR12)
Juvenile Gold Dragon (CR11)
Guardian Naga (CR10)
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Evil
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Old White Dragon (CR15)
Demon, Nalfeshnee (CR14)
Lycanthrope, Werewolf Lord (CR14)

Devil, Ice (CR13)
Demon, Glabrezu (CR13)
Young Adult Red Dragon (CR13)

Basilisk, Greater Abyssal (CR12)
Adult Black Dragon (CR11)
Noble Salamander (CR10)
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If that's all fine with you guys, then mull over the lists. We'll need a thread for the Exhibition Arena, and each of you will need to give me your lineup cards (sequence of combatants), then I'll have the Exhibition announcer tell the crowds who's up first, who's in the On-Deck, who gets initiative and who decides positions...

 

[Gansk]

I'll take Good. Feel free to start the new thread, nothing should prevent you from starting one.