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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8169474" data-attributes="member: 11">[SPOILER="Some more reflection after judgment"]I am glad we did this 3rd place match and not just because I won (though that sweetened the deal) but just because win or lose, the exercise itself is the fun and I always find stuff to use from these. That may be cheesy and the kind of cliché an IRON DM judge would ding an entry for, but it is nonetheless true.I did find it curious that no one took the lone survivor in the crow's nest as the red herring (ingredient-wise) he was mean to be. The real lone survivor is the Jedi-Dino. Oh and snap! I forgot about Saurians from Curse of Azure Bonds! I would have included them! I originally wanted some tool or clue to be in the sunken ship, leading to an encounter to retrieve it and aquatic dinos - but didn't get a chance to develop it or even figure out what the tool would be. .. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:"  data-smilie="10"data-shortname=":oops:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:"  data-smilie="15"data-shortname=":cry:" /> DOH, it should have been the LASER SWORD. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />If I had gone with the Thundarr the Barbarian setting the bandits would have be the dinos themselves. . . but I liked the idea of introducing them as mysterious.  Of course,  a developed version of this adventure might have included rumors of dino-pirates in other parts of the world - maybe the ship that crashed broke apart landing in different parts of the planet - or there were Golden Egg shaped escape pods? I like those ideas, too - but they didn't come to me until after.The spelljammer aspect was a throwaway thing (though as I said above I considered making it a spelljammer adventure) and I was thinking more like the classic module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, with the dinos being kind of science fantasy character types put into a sword & sorcery type world (which there is plenty of precedence for from Star Wars to Conan stories).[/SPOILER]Thanks to the judges. I look forward to reading the entries and judgements for the final. Oh, and if anyone is interested in really working to build a simple website archiving and organizing the surviving IRON DM tournaments I am down to try to organize such a thing.</blockquote>

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