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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 993401" data-attributes="member: 94">Thanks, Talix.I think Rune's praise for my entry is way over the top and gives me way too much credit where it isn't due and not enough credit where it is appropriate. I had hoped he'd call me out on this one. So what am I most proud of? That I finally took the meta-game of Iron DM, and the judge's whims, into consideration. I completely whored myself out from the get-go. From the classical epic backstory (that the PCs may or may not ever discover), to the repeated use of deus ex machina-- and hey! I won!So... It was a bit of a blending of my own preferred style with what I felt the judge would appreciate. An evocative scene or two... Some combat/conflict... A riddle... But these are mere deceptions to fool players like myself.The PCs appear to have choices, but it really doesn't matter what they do. I even went so far as to admit that right up front-- it doesn't even matter which deity is behind the "hooks" and calamaties that befall the PCs! The adventure is designed not to care. There's a lot of setup, a lot of really nothing at all for the PCs to do, and they are herded onto the stage at the end of the entry, the beginning of the real adventure-- just like the entry that bested me in the round before. The adventure is one long, protracted hook that pulls the party onto the stage at the end. The loose threads? The unanswered questions? In my opinion, the truly satisfying adventure lies in what was not addressed in my entry, in those few lines tacked onto the end.I am pleased with the entry? Yes.Is this an adventure that folks will Yoink! and run for their players? Probably not.Where do I send away for my "I am an Iron DM whore?" pin? <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=";)" />Wulf</blockquote>

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