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<blockquote data-quote="phoamslinger" data-source="post: 4959783" data-attributes="member: 2342"><p>hi Markn!</p><p></p><p>I'm suspecting that Brent_Nall didn't see my earlier post (#82, this thread), which I actually dropped onto this thread <strong>before</strong> I posted the ingredients for the match. if so, I'll apologize again for being mean. </p><p></p><p>however, back in the day, after running several tournaments, Nemmerle had high, high standards of what he expected, (including formatting!) and was fully capable of ripping folks up one side and down the other for entries he considered not up to par. in the first Iron DMs you had THREE HOURS to put out a finished product, not 48. I don't use Nemm as an excuse, but do offer him as an arguement that I definitely didn't set any precedents today.</p><p></p><p>re the 3E/4E thing. I'm looking for entries that tie a gordion's knot of ingredients, where <strong>nothing</strong> could be used other than the 6 items provided and they're all cross-connected at every single point throughout the scenario.</p><p></p><p>and btw, you won't find flaming skillets of the master chef in either edition (or in 2nd, or Advanced, or Basic, or in Chainmail). ingredients can come from anywhere, and creative usage of them is what I look for the hardest. even if Wik had called the potions Elixirs of Dragonbreath (the PC 4E name) throughout his entry, he still would have gotten a better call from my judging than Brent did because Wik used it creatively.</p><p></p><p>different judges judge things differently. I've seen people pull wild haikus into their entry, spin palindromes into chapter titles, transcribe song lyrics, or just be so evocative in their descriptive prose that you can feel the silence of the light snow drifting down as the adventurers are traveling to the monastery. I like out of the box. I also like originality. I think it makes the game more interesting.</p><p></p><p>sorry again if I went a bit overboard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoamslinger, post: 4959783, member: 2342"] hi Markn! I'm suspecting that Brent_Nall didn't see my earlier post (#82, this thread), which I actually dropped onto this thread [B]before[/B] I posted the ingredients for the match. if so, I'll apologize again for being mean. however, back in the day, after running several tournaments, Nemmerle had high, high standards of what he expected, (including formatting!) and was fully capable of ripping folks up one side and down the other for entries he considered not up to par. in the first Iron DMs you had THREE HOURS to put out a finished product, not 48. I don't use Nemm as an excuse, but do offer him as an arguement that I definitely didn't set any precedents today. re the 3E/4E thing. I'm looking for entries that tie a gordion's knot of ingredients, where [B]nothing[/B] could be used other than the 6 items provided and they're all cross-connected at every single point throughout the scenario. and btw, you won't find flaming skillets of the master chef in either edition (or in 2nd, or Advanced, or Basic, or in Chainmail). ingredients can come from anywhere, and creative usage of them is what I look for the hardest. even if Wik had called the potions Elixirs of Dragonbreath (the PC 4E name) throughout his entry, he still would have gotten a better call from my judging than Brent did because Wik used it creatively. different judges judge things differently. I've seen people pull wild haikus into their entry, spin palindromes into chapter titles, transcribe song lyrics, or just be so evocative in their descriptive prose that you can feel the silence of the light snow drifting down as the adventurers are traveling to the monastery. I like out of the box. I also like originality. I think it makes the game more interesting. sorry again if I went a bit overboard. [/QUOTE]
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