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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Turner" data-source="post: 1170353" data-attributes="member: 12329">Great entry, nemmerle.  I can see where your reputation comes from.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I also seized upon the idea of the insane unicorn being corrupted by "shadowstuff" or something like it, since the presence of shadow mastiffs almost required an element of the Shadow Plane in the adventure.  In the end, however, I thought that casting the "insane" unicorn as an evil unicorn wasn't really a type of insanity, but was more like demonic corruption.  So I discarded the idea that the unicorn was some how a "Negative Zone" unicorn and went for a kind of dangerously senile and insane regular unicorn.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Your handling of the Shadow Plane was inspired.  The Dark Prime is a great idea and you left enough hints about it in the text to make it seem real.I was pleasantly surprised to see how many of the ideas you went with were similar to ones I also thought of (though ultimately discarded in some cases).  I don't say this to somehow belittle the choices you made, since I think you did a masterful job with the ingredients.  After I learned that you were to be my opponent, I went back and read a few of your entries and it's nice to see that I was "thinking like the master" at times.In hindsight, I can see that I was trying to fit too much into the entry.  I was busy trying to completely think through the entire scenario, but I ended up wasting too much time doing that.  By the time I realized that I wasn't going to pull things together in time, it was too late to whip up someting entirely new as well.  A note to future contestants: simple is best!  Concentrate on three to four key encounters and let the DMs out there fill in the (sometimes considerable) gaps.  Nemmerle seems to do this and I didn't learn this in time.Again, nemmerle, my congratulations on a wonderful entry.But wait until the next tournament...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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