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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 442349" data-attributes="member: 221">Oh great, now I feel like a heel for winning <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Just kiddingedit: I really am just kidding.  I know how you feel.  I really enjoy Iron DM but the arbitrary nature of the judging does beg for something more concrete, something you can point to and say - there is where they did better than me.Thank you and I look forward to it.Personally I thought your idea was great and the hooks were good but found the ending too closed.  In most parties I have ever DMed, that single desired outcome would never have happened.  Most players would ask questions only after the evil flesh eating witch was dead.  As to notes about my idea.  The druids are in my mind levels 10 to 15 and are fairly powerful.  They are not however movers and shakers outside of their little domain.  They have no interest about the world beyond their woods.  The note about the elves, unicorns, etc was just to give the forest the sort of flavor I was looking for.  It is a fairy wonderland thanks to the cooperation of the two druids.  This cooperation has been hinged for many years on this contest, thus it is an important event for the whole region.  The conflict of interest in my mind was whether the druids would let their personal desires come before their duty to protect the forest.  As to the ogres having the maps, the druids planted it on the ogres in such a way as to not let the ogres know what the maps were.  The ogres can't read and therefore do not understand the maps, but they look pretty and so they keep them.Someone might think it farfetched that the dryad would prefer mushroom casseroles to potions of longevity, but perhaps the mushrooms act similar to chocolate only more so <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The dove could perhaps be fleshed out a little better.  If I was running the contest I would make him the major npc.  He is the Jiminy Cricket of the contest.  The druids can watch the contestants via magic, but the dove allows on the spot rules questions to be answered and can caution the players before they do something foolish.   In the same vein of fleshing out the idea, I would really build up the beginning of the contest. I would make it a major event, with unicorns, fairies, elves, treants and all present to see the teams off.  The elvish party at the end was just a tack on, but the winning team would be the toast of the region for a whole year.  and might thus be in line for other propositions from those who knew about them.</blockquote>

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