Iron dm summer champion announced!

[Pielorinho]

What really got me going in this round was the idea of having to chase a caffeinated weasel through ruinous buildings. Which was, I think, an incredibly great idea, one that's going into my DM's bag of tricks, if you'll pardon the expression.

It's a great image, but as my earlier post suggested, my first thought on reading it was, "Dude! Put a leash around its neck!"

Must come from working for an animal control department . Anyway folks who run this ought to be prepared for PCs leashing the critter and thereby avoiding this otherwise great scene (I hear old-time Keystone Kops-style piano music playing the soundtrack for it).

Daniel

 

[seasong]

anonystu: Even though you didn't make it to the second round, I wanted to thank you. I wouldn't have been brave enough to go outside the D&D milieu without someone else going first. Not saying I will in the next round or two, but I can feel my cowardly little heart opening up to the possibility now.

Greybar: Yeah. There's tricks to getting around it, and ways to combat it, but the passion of inspiration often gives you the feeling of perfection even when that's a damned lie.

cool hand luke: In one of the competitions I was in, I had a background setting in mind. It hurt my entries, I think - being creative was harder when I had this comfortable rut, and it also restricted some of my choices... especially when the Judge had no such restrictions on the kind of weird stuff they might toss out as so-called ingredients .

-seasong

PS: WHOO HOO! SECOND ROUND, HERE I COME!

 

[cool hand luke]

how DO they come up with those ingredient lists? WAY more creative than me, let me tell you.

 

[Rune]

I took it that adherence to the D20 core books was a necessity.

Then you obviously haven't read some of my old entries!

Even something like how Wicenna managed to maintain a charm for a week crossed my mind...

That would have been fine, but you needed to explain it and didn't. Hence, a hole in verisimilitude. (If I seem to use that word, often, there's a reason.)

 

[Rune]

how DO they come up with those ingredient lists? WAY more creative than me, let me tell you.

Every judge has a different method.

 

[cool hand luke]

Hence, a hole in verisimilitude. (If I seem to use that word, often, there's a reason.)

let me guess, either

A. you were a finalist in the national spelling bee, that was the word you missed dashing forever your hopes of glory. You have been obsessed with it ever since.

b. You have a word of the day calendar, tomorrow your word will be valetudinarian.

or, c. you are part owner of www.dictionary.com, and you want to make sure your sight get's used alot.

 

[Rune]

Close, cool hand luke (love the name, by the way), but not quite.

I mention it frequently, because it's probably the most important ingredient in a good scenario, setting, or campaign. Period. Suspension of disbelief is required to play the game, but verisimilitude is required to make it happen.

 

[el-remmen]

how DO they come up with those ingredient lists? WAY more creative than me, let me tell you.

Have I ever posted my rejected list iof ingredients I came up with for a final once? I decided they were impossible - though anyone is welcome to give them a try. (I have one idea of how it could be done).

Blind Beholder
Headless Hydra
Bald Medusa
Wingless Roc
Lodestone
Alcohol Prohibition

 

[Rune]

Round 1, Match 4: Wulf Ratbane vs. lightful

Ingredients (please list these at the top of your entry.)

Ancient elf
Albino elves
Prayer beads
Specimen collection
Withered garden
Phase spider

You have exactly 24 hours from the time of this post to post your submissions. Remember. NO EDITING AFTER YOU POST!

Good luck.

 

[lightful]

Got 'em !