John Q. Mayhem
Explorer
Did you just read the Call of Cthulhu?
Fall '03 Iron DM Tournament -- Wulf Ratbane is Iron DM!
- Thread starter Pielorinho
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Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
John Q. Mayhem said:
You don't have to read it more than once to have it stick with you...
Anyway I've been up to my armpits in tentacled horrors for my upcoming book.
Wulf
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Judgment posted for Mythago vs. Wulf Ratbane.
We're ready for the second round! Proceeding onwards, we have:
Nemmerle
Wicht
Rune
Wulf Ratbane
Are any of you ready for the next round? Please post your availability, and we'll get started as soon as we can.
There's going to be a new rule going into the next round, however: enough with the effin' curses. Some of the ingredients I introduced may have encouraged this, but it seems like about three-quarters of the entries so far have involved some sort of curse or another, used with varying degrees of success. No more curses!
Daniel
We're ready for the second round! Proceeding onwards, we have:
Nemmerle
Wicht
Rune
Wulf Ratbane
Are any of you ready for the next round? Please post your availability, and we'll get started as soon as we can.
There's going to be a new rule going into the next round, however: enough with the effin' curses. Some of the ingredients I introduced may have encouraged this, but it seems like about three-quarters of the entries so far have involved some sort of curse or another, used with varying degrees of success. No more curses!
Daniel
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mythago
Hero
Congratulations, Wulf! Now go kick some butt. 
Small notes on my entry: I've never actually read That Author, or That Novel, that was referenced, so honestly, it's coincidence. The aboleth is listed in the MM as an "amphibian" that lives in shallowish waters, so I though making it another sea creature would not fit. Again, these are not arguments why I should have won, just explanations of why I included those.
Small notes on my entry: I've never actually read That Author, or That Novel, that was referenced, so honestly, it's coincidence. The aboleth is listed in the MM as an "amphibian" that lives in shallowish waters, so I though making it another sea creature would not fit. Again, these are not arguments why I should have won, just explanations of why I included those.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Yikes -- my apologies, then, for suggesting you were borrowing too heavily from that author. The similarities are pretty strong.
I still think Wulf's entry was the better of the two, but I like your entry a lot more, now, knowing that you didn't steal it from a novel's plot.
Daniel
I still think Wulf's entry was the better of the two, but I like your entry a lot more, now, knowing that you didn't steal it from a novel's plot
.Daniel
Wicht
Hero
Kudos to Wulf - I loved it... But then I am slavishly devoted to all things Cthulhu.
One thing I don't understand from Mythago's. How did the pirates in the backstory manage to conquer and enslave an ocean dwelling race? What were aquatic elves doing living on an island? That minor detail kind of threw me off the rest of the story. Am I missing something?
One thing I don't understand from Mythago's. How did the pirates in the backstory manage to conquer and enslave an ocean dwelling race? What were aquatic elves doing living on an island? That minor detail kind of threw me off the rest of the story. Am I missing something?
Feathercircle
First Post
Well, Pieloriho picked up on the thing in Mythago's entry that was niggling at me (namely, the turtle lifting the aboleth up for air), so that I didn't need to comment on it after all. Coincidentally, I did some searching on the internet, and it turns out that aboleths actually CAN breath air indefinitely. If Mythago had decided that aboleths, like sharks, can only utilize their gills properly when they're in constant motion, then his crippled aboleth could have been forced to rely on its less-used air-breathing capabilities... the scene is actually a feasible one, if approached from the right angle.
Ah well, it's easy to second-guess the contestants when you aren't actually playing... At this point, I really wish I was, though. When I took a shower yesterday, an idea hit me out of the blue and I found myself writing an adventure in my head using the ingredients! I'm actually pretty proud of how it turned out- it has plenty of fleshed-out characters, difficult moral decisions, and more illithids than you can shake a stick at.. It turned out a lot better than any of the stuff I've done for my own campaign- maybe I should plotwright in the shower more often! Unfortunately, by that time, I'd already read Mythago's entry, so even if Wulf hadn't stepped up, I still wouldn't have been eligible... Anyway, I'm still following this thread with great interest, and I wish Wulf luck in the rounds to come!
PS- Is there a place on this board set aside where people can post adventures they've written?
Ah well, it's easy to second-guess the contestants when you aren't actually playing... At this point, I really wish I was, though. When I took a shower yesterday, an idea hit me out of the blue and I found myself writing an adventure in my head using the ingredients! I'm actually pretty proud of how it turned out- it has plenty of fleshed-out characters, difficult moral decisions, and more illithids than you can shake a stick at.. It turned out a lot better than any of the stuff I've done for my own campaign- maybe I should plotwright in the shower more often! Unfortunately, by that time, I'd already read Mythago's entry, so even if Wulf hadn't stepped up, I still wouldn't have been eligible... Anyway, I'm still following this thread with great interest, and I wish Wulf luck in the rounds to come!
PS- Is there a place on this board set aside where people can post adventures they've written?
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
Wicht said:
I have been assured by the printer that the book will (finally) ship to the warehouse this coming Monday Oct. 20th. It should work its way to retail a couple weeks after that.
I should have my own supply a couple days after that to beginning filling orders made through the Bad Axe website, but I prefer that folks ask after my products at their local gaming store.
For the tentacled horror goodness of which I spoke before, see the big honkin' GRIM TALES banner in the thread. (FYI-- the banner rotates automatically; you can hit refresh to see all six...)
Regarding my entry, what exposition I had was really put up front of the adventure. I was trying something new and (for me) risky. It was missing most of the things I usually put into my adventures; those same things the judge said he'd be looking for. I feel lucky to have gotten this one through and the judgement leaves me feeling like the lesser of two evils. No offense to mythago intended-- if the judging went as nemmerle suggests it should, every judgement should appear that way.
Hats off to my competitor, and good luck to the others in the final four. Let's make this a Final Four to remember (and see if I can't kick my Round 2 curse...)
Wulf
