Gaming for Duckets...

[Scribble]

It worked with Magic... I'm not sure, but I'm assuming they do it for the Minis games...

But do they have any D&D tournament style win money adventures for D&D?

Maybe they could do a giant Undermountain style adventure where several groups compete against eachother to get through it the quickest...

"Welcome back to ESPN's coverage of the D&D 13th level Paladin National Championships..."

 

[kenobi65]

Only thing even close to this that I'm aware of is the D&D Open at GenCon, in which teams do compete to advance, based on how well they do at accomplishing the objectives in each round. However, I don't think that there's cash prizes involved (though, IIRC, the winners do get something).

 

[werk]

We always had the players vote anonymously for best character, best roleplayer, best DM.

You can't vote for yourself, most votes at the end wins a pie!

 

[Scribble]

Yeah, see that would be a problem with it... If it was for money you'd probably have to boil it down to just surviving and getting through the dungeon first and with the most loot or something...

A min/max power gamer's dream!

 

[Scribble]

hah.. or like, make the treasure in the game = to real world money. Each GP = 1 dollar of the cash prize.

 

[Brain]

I've seen it at GenCon SoCal last year. A guy named Tavis was running a "fight a dragon" scenario over and over with different groups (consisting of pre-gen characters, but different mixes chosen by the groups). There was an entry fee and a cash prize. I believe the challenge was to defeat the dragon the quickest with the least damage taken by the party.

 

[shaylon]

I've seen it at GenCon SoCal last year. A guy named Tavis was running a "fight a dragon" scenario over and over with different groups (consisting of pre-gen characters, but different mixes chosen by the groups). There was an entry fee and a cash prize. I believe the challenge was to defeat the dragon the quickest with the least damage taken by the party.

Not sure if it was the same guy but I played in a similar setup at GenCon Indy. It was called D&D for cash, and it is back this year AFAIK.

The scenario was to get a group of 6 to kill a dragon the quickest. I think he ran ten a day or so and the winners were announced on Sunday. I believe 4 or 6 rounds won it, I think my group did it in about 9 rounds.

It was kind of a ripoff IMO, although it was still fun. The reason I say it was a ripoff is that he generated the characters and there were better options. Also I am sure he walked away with quite a bit of the money as he ran so many of them, and the entry fee was a little high. As an example he touted the character as basically optimized for the scenario but my barbarian had the Improved Cleave feat and there was only one dragon. Not sure why he thought that was useful when there are many other feats that I could think of that would have been much more helpful.

If you can get a full group together and be prepped for something like this then I suggest doing it. I want to say that the prize was several hundred dollars.

-Shay

 

[Old Gumphrey]

Great Cleave fighting one dragon? The "winners" were probably his own gaming group that he fudged for and knew which characters to choose.

 

[Scribble]

Great Cleave fighting one dragon? The "winners" were probably his own gaming group that he fudged for and knew which characters to choose.

Yeah... If I were doing this it would be:

Players create a team of characters of X level using only "official" books. (or list the books.)

Have one large dungeon with multiple entrances, all leading towards the center. Each area of the dungeon being the same CR, though not nessesarily the same monsters?

Teams enter with entrance fee, starting location for each team chosen at random.

In the end, the teams battle eachother, or keep what they've won.

 

[shaylon]

Great Cleave fighting one dragon? The "winners" were probably his own gaming group that he fudged for and knew which characters to choose.

Well I am not so sure that it was rigged, but I did feel a little slighted when I left there. I knew we weren't going to win and didn't care but I kept thinking of that feat. I really didn't get a chance to look at the other character sheets but I am sure there were some useless spells and abilities there.

Not that Great Cleave is a useless ability, in fact it is a very good one, but it is a waste of a feat for that encounter.