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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 727179" data-attributes="member: 6562">Round 2, Match 2 -- JUDGEMENT!Greybar vs. Drunken MasterAnalysis:Elephant Rider: I adore Jorgund and Thunderfoot. The Elven Elephant riders -- hmm. If elves rode elephants, they'd be doing archery from their backs -- not charging into melee.Fragmented Forge: both are decent organizations, though Greybar's more cleaerly played a part in his character's development.Growth Formula: What a good way to get rid of a dragon, or to handle an elephant in melee!  Both are well used, though Greybar's version is multi-use, and an inherent part of the character.Honor of the Princess: both present good plot-points.Icebound Cutter: Greybar does an excellent job of integrating this weapon into his character's personality and history. It probably deserves to be cursed somehow. Drunken Master, your Cutter feels tacked-on.Jade Wyrm: Greybar, is your organzation by any chance composed of "snake people"? Drunken Master, good recurring use of dragons, though I'm curious why so many different chromatics would cooperate.Finally, the game-breakers: personality and usefulness.First, personality: Greybar, you gave me a dwarf who hates elves. He's got an interesting and novel reason to hate them, but it's not enough to overcome the cliche.Secondly, Greybar, how in Hastur's name am I supposed to use this guy? Most parties have at least a half-elf -- this guy wouldn't even talk to them. His alignment is allegedly LN, but he's as much of a loner (CN) as I've ever seen.Drunken Master, you gave me a man with depth. He's done the dwarf-cliche thing, and moved on. Secondly, he's moved on to a variety of cool locations! He can be dropped into any number of places, and fit several very cool roles -- who would be a better person to craft barding for an exotic mount, than a blacksmith / zookeeper?Drunken MasterIngredients:- Elephant Rider(s): 10- Fragmented Forge: 7- Growth Formula: 8- Honor of the Princess: 5- Icebound Cutter: 6- Jade Wyrm: 7Personality: 15Usefulness: 15Total: 73GreybarIngredients:- Elephant Rider(s): 7- Fragmented Forge: 7- Growth Formula: 8- Honor of the Princess: 7- Icebound Cutter: 8- Jade Wyrm: 9Personality: 11Usefulness: 12Total: 69This round was very, very close. In the end, Greybar's superior ingredient use was not enough to overcome Drunken Master's awesome personality-fu.Congradulations, Drunken Master!!!  Well done on both sides.Now, when do you and Ray Silver want to face-off for the IRON NPC TITLE MATCH? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> -- Nifft</blockquote>

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