Fall '03 Iron DM Tournament -- Wulf Ratbane is Iron DM!
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Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Poor Nem, mercilessly mocked by the judge.nemmerle said:
Judgment posted.
Daniel
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Sorry about the mess -as we all know I was working on it right up to the last minute. As someone who spends a lot of time editing other people's writing - I am a notoriously sloppy writer who is really bad at editing myself - usually for my own writing I set it aside for a week before going thru with a red pen - otherwise it just too close and makes sense to my addled mind. 
And hey, I like nested paranthesis and you know - hyphens 
EDIT: I wanted to add that the poor organization comes from my style of working on these entries, which is to write whatever section come to me first and then cut and past around sentences and chunks of sentences and paragraphs until it is is vaguely in some kind of chronological order. I often stop in the middle of one section (in this entry while writing about the journey to the sacred hill) to go back and write another (Lothario's connection to the dwarf).
I promise to be more organized and concise in my next entry (as I will not have to work so hard to beat Wulf)
Of all my entries I probably re-wrote sections of this more than any other (the original had red-blue dragon hybrid and a volcano and the worm and no dwarf and people thinking the Lothario was dead all along).
I did have a fear that you would get bored or annoyed and stop reading before getting to some of the pay-offs (like the Lothario still being a Lothario), but I had to risk it. While admit that my use of "heat lightning" was rather stretched - I have to disagree that the use was "silly". Then again, I am a sucker for the conceits and oddities of language and my Aquerra setting has tons of those kinds of weird details built into names of people, places and things. If I had been judging I would have been pretty harsh on it, too - as I would have been on Rune's use of it - which I was so happy when I read b/c it struck me as lamer than mine - but his ambitious attempt to use sexual politics and gender roles in a society had me worried.
I worked hard to have stronger and well-defined NPCs and I think I succeeded - as a DM myself I often try to pull thru a lack-lucter scenario by falling back on my ability to portray interesting and layered characters to the players - both as allies and opponents.
Anyway, good round Rune - Sorry again, Daniel.
See you in the next round Wulf!
And hey, I like nested paranthesis and you know - hyphens EDIT: I wanted to add that the poor organization comes from my style of working on these entries, which is to write whatever section come to me first and then cut and past around sentences and chunks of sentences and paragraphs until it is is vaguely in some kind of chronological order. I often stop in the middle of one section (in this entry while writing about the journey to the sacred hill) to go back and write another (Lothario's connection to the dwarf).
I promise to be more organized and concise in my next entry (as I will not have to work so hard to beat Wulf
)Of all my entries I probably re-wrote sections of this more than any other (the original had red-blue dragon hybrid and a volcano and the worm and no dwarf and people thinking the Lothario was dead all along).
I did have a fear that you would get bored or annoyed and stop reading before getting to some of the pay-offs (like the Lothario still being a Lothario), but I had to risk it. While admit that my use of "heat lightning" was rather stretched - I have to disagree that the use was "silly". Then again, I am a sucker for the conceits and oddities of language and my Aquerra setting has tons of those kinds of weird details built into names of people, places and things. If I had been judging I would have been pretty harsh on it, too - as I would have been on Rune's use of it - which I was so happy when I read b/c it struck me as lamer than mine - but his ambitious attempt to use sexual politics and gender roles in a society had me worried.
I worked hard to have stronger and well-defined NPCs and I think I succeeded - as a DM myself I often try to pull thru a lack-lucter scenario by falling back on my ability to portray interesting and layered characters to the players - both as allies and opponents.
Anyway, good round Rune - Sorry again, Daniel.
See you in the next round Wulf!
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Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
I'm up for doing a third place round. Wicht and Rune, are you guys up for it? If we do it, I'd like to do it prior to the final round.
Daniel
Daniel
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
Pielorinho said:
Good, I can use a day to recharge my batteries - but next week should prove to be very busy at work - so I would like to face off against Wulf on Thursday/Friday, if at all possible.
Thanks again, Daniel for running this thing. You da man!
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Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Bumping the thread...Rune hasn't posted on the Boards since my judgment, and he said earlier this week that Thursday (today) would be his last opportunity for a round this week. Rune, are you around, and would you be up for a match vs. Wicht today?
One way or the other, I'd like to resume the tournament soon. I'm buying a house and moving next week (GAH!), and will be pretty busy then.
Daniel
One way or the other, I'd like to resume the tournament soon. I'm buying a house and moving next week (GAH!), and will be pretty busy then.
Daniel
