Iron DM 2010 Discussion Thread

[Sanzuo]

Iron Sky, Iron sky, Iron Sky

I believe electricdragon sums up my feelings about this contest!!

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i saw criticism of my entry but none of iron sky's; what's up with that, was his perfect?

I have two plot hooks for if the party is hq'd in the town or just passing through. Yes, the comet didn't come into the story at all except in passing, but the same is true of iron sky's comet. My comet caused a golem to go on the rampage, kidnapping people inadvertently freeing ancient people from a sleeping death of 15 thousand years.

Let's see, moneylender: Mine shows up 3-4 times in the story and is aggressive. His shows up once and is powerful. Character development then doesn't matter

shocking arrows, mine are carried by the golem to wake up the sleeping dead (tied into both), his are carried by the lich (moneylender) and are just what is needed to activate this multi-generational, more-powerful-than-any-god golem.

I didn't add sex to mine, i guess i should have linked porn. I thought this was a family-oriented site though so, sex wasn't even considered, stupid me.

My only real weak point was the bloody dungeon, which was only bloody by tale, a red herriing for the players. The two unique undead were meant to be "survivors" of this dungeon and what it did to people. You didn't see that though.

I don't mind criticism, when it is meant to help provide a means to better one's stories, but phoamslinger's criticism was more: Your sucks, his is great. And this after delaying the judgement for more than 3 days. Thank you.

Don't expect me to try this again, i can see that the judges have their favorites. I have been dming for more than 30 years, i have had some of my adventures written up in dragon magazine, and at least one editorial about one specific adventure that shocked the editor enough to spend the whole issue talking about it. I know what kind of dm i am.

I don't do 4th edition, i don't have a lot of computer savvy, i don't do computer graphics, but my adventures are talked about for years. You should be so lucky to play in one of my campaigns.

If this post gets me banned, so be it; i'm kinda peeved right now.

Ciao,
dave

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Just kidding! Obviously Iron Sky deserves this round. I put very little effort into this entry. Honestly, by this point I was starting to feel pretty burnt out.

 

[Pbartender]

I believe electricdragon sums up my feelings about this contest!!

Just kidding! Obviously Iron Sky deserves this round. I put very little effort into this entry. Honestly, by this point I was starting to feel pretty burnt out.

That's alright... In all honestly, I've just been flipping coins to determine the winners, and then writing up some horse-hockey to justify the outcome after the fact.

 

[Pro-Paladin]

My entry for the semi-finals is finished!

Here it is.

 

[jaccky]

its really fun

 

[ajanders]

My entry for the semi-finals is finished!

Here it is.

I think we need to get you some more alliteration.

"Saga of the Soviet Psi-Spores"
"Malevolent Marxist Mind-Controlling Mushroom Mission"

And more exclamation points.

Neat idea.

 

[Pro-Paladin]

I think we need to get you some more alliteration.

"Saga of the Soviet Psi-Spores"
"Malevolent Marxist Mind-Controlling Mushroom Mission"

And more exclamation points.

Neat idea.

I'm terrible at naming these. I was planning to get way too cutesy and call it "Fungus Among Us" but I settled on the 1950s drive in theme.

It's always interesting to see how different two adventures with the same ingredients can get and yet still have things in common. There must be something in the collective unconscious that relates gaslights and fungus to zombified workers.

I was originally going to try to go the post-apocalypse route, maybe even with the idea of fallen modern man as the distant past in a D 'n' D campaign. The deserted docks (heroes return from six months on a submarine, etc) and the fungus encroachment would have fit in very nicely (humanity wiped out by...fungus?) and maybe the woman with the aura and flying papers is some sort of spirit of goodness or evil like in "The Stand" but I just couldn't bring the other elements into harmony with the idea.

It's been my experience that once I settle on a theme that I think works (Cold War '50s, this time), I'm stuck with it and can just work within the framework of it. I wonder if that happens to everyone else, or if it's possible to basically "fillet" a theme that isn't working, keep a few elements and start fresh, despite being several hours in.

 

[ajanders]

With these ingredients, yes.
I considered taking those ingredients and writing the D&D version of "House on the Borderlands", but using the encroaching fungus as only a symbol of horror seemed kinda weak.
But I couldn't have done it in any of these other rounds.

 

[Radiating Gnome]

Okay, long weekend is over. My judgement is up. Remember, it's just one of three, so the other two judges need to chime in . . .

-rg

 

[Iron Sky]

We're not there yet, but I thought I'd request that for the championship round, we hold it over the weekend. I just had several weeks worth of work come up so I'm going to have very little free time except during weekends while the work is here.

Thanks.

 

[CleverNickName]

We're not there yet, but I thought I'd request that for the championship round, we hold it over the weekend. I just had several weeks worth of work come up so I'm going to have very little free time except during weekends while the work is here.

Sounds good to me; the only trouble is that I do not have reliable internet access on the weekends. But that's okay. I can deal.