D&D General Iron DM 2020 Interest Thread

[Wicht]

So great to see some old names in here!

Who you calling old?

 

[el-remmen]

Who you calling old?

Mostly myself.

 

[Wicht]

Mostly myself.

Fair enough.
I was practically a child when we first started so I couldn't be old now.

 

[el-remmen]

I was born old, but am growing younger all the time (thus my return to TTRPGs)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I was born old, but am growing younger all the time (thus my return to TTRPGs)

I was born ...


You know, it is increasingly difficult to work in allusions to The Jerk.

 

[MNblockhead]

Man, I would be interested. But I doubt I could participate with my work schedule. How does scheduling work? Are challenges scheduled throughout the week?

 

[Rune]

Scheduling is done around the participants’ availability as best as possible. This is why the tournament structure is not a traditional bracket. Anyone still around in your current round mught be your next opponent, availability permitting.

Contestants are expected to find time within their matches to write and edit their entries before posting. This is challenging (especially for the 24-hour matches), but that’s the point.

The first round matches go pretty quickly (sometimes scheduled to overlap). The second and final rounds slow down a little – both scheduling and the matches, themselves.

Ideally, the first round is finished within a week of the tourney’s start. Another week or two is typical for the rest of the tournament.

If you aren’t sure you’ll be able to commit, I encourage you to sign on as an alternate when the recruitment thread goes up. Which will be soon; the judges are finalizing the format and rules for this year’s tournament.

That said, if you can expect to put in a few hours of work within the window, that’s about what you’ll likely need. And, if it’s any consolation, the earliest IRON DM matches were all only one hour!

 

[Rune]

Update: We’ve got the details worked out. Just need to put together and proofread an exposition-heavy post. If anyone wants a preview of the rules, there are no surprises here; they will be the same as the last couple of years’.

We should be posting a recruitment thread for the IRON DM 2020 Tournament sometime around noonish (eastern) December 11. About 12 hours from now. Probably in the General TTRPG forum. When we do, we’ll link to that thread in this one.

 

[Gradine]

Man, I would be interested. But I doubt I could participate with my work schedule. How does scheduling work? Are challenges scheduled throughout the week?

We're pretty flexible with scheduling, as Rune says. The word limits are pretty short, so even a short time frame for writing is fine if you can spend some time ruminating on the ingredients before hand.

I'd definitely recommend giving it a spin if you're interested!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I've been reading last year's entries and I'm not gonna lie - I'm pretty intimidated at the idea of participating. I feel like a total amateur compared to these great entries. But then, what's the harm in trying it out? Worse case scenario, I'll suck, and you can tell me as much. I've never done anything like it - to be honest, I've never written an adventure before. To be clear, I've written many thousands of hours of adventures, I've just never written them down ahead of time, nor have I ever shared them with anyone other than my players. There's a first time for everything. Let's give it a shot.