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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EOL" data-source="post: 90136" data-attributes="member: 823">The key sticking point as to whether someone followed the rules or not seems to be in the reusability or independence of the three pieces: encounter, location and NPC.  The key phrase in the contest rules is:Some have stated that the encounter needs to be independent, but that's not what it sounds like to me it sounds like it's the location and NPC that ought to be independent and reusable, but it's fine if the encounter (the first page) helps wrap it all together.Now I had not one, but two encounters in this heat, and when I thought of the term reusable I thought about it in the term like the NPC's in Enemies and allies are reusable.  Take Varro and Khalili for example.  Varro is the urban druid and Khalili is the Master of the thieves guild and even though Khalili is mentioned specifically in Varro's write-up it would still be easy to seperate them.So let's look at The Portal which was one of the two encounters I had in this heat.  To me it seemed completely reusable and independent.  The encounter has a single line (in the flavor text) which mentions the NPC.  That line could easily be cut.  Now the NPC is a different story his background and role-playing notes mention the tower and it's history extensively.  But who couldn't use a 15th level Orc Monk in their campaign?  Just the humor value of having the first level party run into a single orc, which (if anything like my party) they immediately attack only to find out they're the goons in a martial arts flick.  Of course you don't kill any just keep stunning them till they learn their lesson.  Plus I put in notes on scaling him up and down from 11th level all the way to 20th.  I thought that both the location and the NPC were interesting.My other encounter in this heat was L'amour de Erinyes.  The story was trite and cliched, the location was merely an inn, completely unremarkable without the presense of the Erinyes.  The Erinyes herself was basically uninteresting except for the over-powered and over-priced magic item I'd given her.  So when the votes were in what was the result?  L'amour did pretty good and The Portal was stuck near the bottom.So the morale of this story is I have no idea what I'm talking about so you should probably just ignore me....<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" /></blockquote>

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