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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4991616" data-attributes="member: 40177">Well, I.S., it's neck and neck.  Phoam's was really well done, and had me second-guessing the whole way through who he was gonna vote for.  I enjoyed it, is what I'm saying.  <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=";)" />Can't wait to read Nifft's judgery, regardless of which way he goes.  This has been a VERY enjoyable round.  I do want to clarify a few things, which I'll do in a spoiler tag for Nifft's benefit.  [sblock]Alright, so first off, is the "Fungal Forest".  This is just a linguistic thing, on my part.  I hate using the same word (in this case, "jungle") over and over again, so I subbed forest.  Plus, I live in a rainforest, which many people often think of as jungle for some reason, so I guess the duality of the word always appeals to me.  I get Phoam's point, though.  Though I'm bugged, not at the judge, but at myself, because I had actually wanted to put a point in there about the draftees having to deal with the abundant animal life of the fungus jungle, but didn't, for space reasons.  *facepalm*Purple Wight:  I couldn't do anything with these entries, until a friend called me up.  She was sick, and i had to do a phone diagnosis to figure out what was wrong, so I dug up my handy occupational first aid book, and while flipping through it, saw some pictures of seriously hurt people - who look purple.  And that kind of got things going.  Which is when I started getting really excited.  <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=":)" />Regarding Gnome's point about running my adventure being harder, I *almost* made it a Savage Worlds adventure to accomodate that, but then decided that if it were a skill challenge instead, it could work in 4e.  Also, the PCs cannot just "go it alone", because if they did, they'd face 30 or 40 kuo-toa at once.  One thing I really liked about writing my adventure was the idea that if PCs let draftees die, their force actually becomes stronger.... until the end fight, because hten they have to fight more wights.  Fort:  I fully agree on this being my weakest part of the entry.  The image of a "lightning fort" was not one I particularly enjoyed, and I would never put it in my own games.  And since I try to make adventures that I would personally enjoy, I had to somehow make it work.  The lightning is really only useful in the shocking of wights (which is fun!).  Originally, I had it as an underdark fort that was also a lightning rod to the surface, but it was just too gonzo for my taste.  [/sblock]Anyways, like I said earlier, I'm really excited by this match, and it's been a lot of fun.</blockquote>

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