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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 5202005" data-attributes="member: 5948">Phew, that's possibly the most brutal set of ingredients I'd ever seen in all the time I've been reading (and participating in) Iron DM competitions!  Really, really, really nasty, whoever dreamed that lot up.I try to make a habit of mentally planning out what I'd do with a set of ingredients (it's good practice!), and this one was really rough. [sblock]The tough bit I've always found in these things is making everything directly relevant - it's very easy to have the items just be McGuffins and the NPC/creatures be disposable enemies.  Why is it important that the ingredient is a songbow rather than a flaming sword?  Why is the 'chronometerness' of the broken chronometer significant?  Why a weretiger, rather than an ogre, hag or doppleganger?  This is made doubly hard when so many ingredients are double-barrelled.  Both songness and bowness need to be important, both aerialness and swampness, both humanness and slaverness.  Like I said, this was one of the tougher ingredient set I've ever seen.If I was judge (and I'm not!) I'd probably give it to MortalPlague.  His chronometer and songbow are his weaker ingredients, but he's integrated his weretiger and universal suffrage together really nicely, and the crusty old scholarly noble running a retreat for lycanthropes from his hoary old mountain manor is a memorable character in a memorable setting.  I think both players had a bit of trouble with the human slaver - MP's renegade son doesn't do much slaving, while it doesn't seem to be important that ender's repellent robber baroness is human.  Those double-barrelled ingredients are very tough.  ender's gas-belching swamp floating over a grubby industrialising city is wonderfully pulp-Victorian/Eberronian, but I'm not sure that the universal suffrage inherent in the setting is particularly central to what the PCs actually do.[/sblock]Excellent effort first up though.  I was originally scheduled for this ingredient set, and I have to admit I was very glad indeed that my match had been shifted once I saw the ingredients...</blockquote>

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