IRON DM 2025 Tournament Thread

[FitzTheRuke]

Oh, and @Fenris-77 regarding Little Paradise = Shrimp Heaven...

I think subconsciously I must have got it, but it never came to the fore. Because I kept reading your description of her over and over thinking, "There's an ingredient here, but I can't tell what it is!"

I think, had you not used the word "shrimp" elsewhere, I might have caught it (though maybe not) because when it came to them, I kept thinking, "well, they're dead, I guess, but where's their 'heaven'?"

I see where you were going now with the name. Cool attempt.

 

[Fenris-77]

Oh, and @Fenris-77 regarding Little Paradise = Shrimp Heaven...

I think subconsciously I must have got it, but it never came to the fore. Because I kept reading your description of her over and over thinking, "There's an ingredient here, but I can't tell what it is!"

I think, had you not used the word "shrimp" elsewhere, I might have caught it (though maybe not) because when it came to them, I kept thinking, "well, they're dead, I guess, but where's their 'heaven'?"

I see where you were going now with the name. Cool attempt.

Id agree that the throwaway shrimp mention was probably poor Iron DM planning. A teachable moment!

 

[Gradine]

I'll say that it's clever, and it's better than what we all did pick up on, for sure, but it still runs into a little bit of the problem of naming the thing after the ingredient, though it's a little bit more descriptive here than is typical for that. But in any case, it's always a lot easier to see places where you could have potentially done this thing or that thing better with the virtue of hindsight and time; the time pressure is always going to put a cap on how perfect you're going to get with any one entry. In the end, all we can do is submit the best we're able to under the circumstances. I think, win or lose, everyone should be incredibly proud of every entry they've submitted. And I say that as a five-time loser!