RANDOM ADVENTURE IDEAS-- Help us pick a winner!

[Wulf Ratbane]

Wulf, you might consider clarifying the criteria used in this contest (I.e. that everyone was assigned a random title and given one hour to come up with a 100-word-or-less "back page blurb" for it), as it seems like a lot of people are unfairly faulting some of the ones with... let's say, less unique titles.

You are of course correct in a sense (well, the larger sense).

However I found HM's post very informative and useful. One premise of the Random Generator, I believe, is that all dungeon titles are pretty much interchangeable. Clearly, he's given us at least one data point to say that they are not.

I would be willing to bet that Frogs score lower than Whores, for example; and in HM's case at least any Vampires or Liches, whether they be Kings or Queens or Whores or not, are deal-breakers, cause he doesn't like undead.

I'll make sure nobody gets "screwed," don't worry. Trying to keep it fun and not terribly competitive.

I will edit the first post with your suggestion!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I would think the benefit of the random generator would be to come up with attention-grabbing titles that you wouldn't necessarily come up with on your own. 'Frog Sorceror' for example, stands out in a way that 'Serpent King' does not. To use a specific example, with 'Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore', 'Bthuvian' is what elevated it from pandering to clever, in my opinion.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I would think the benefit of the random generator would be to come up with attention-grabbing titles that you wouldn't necessarily come up with on your own. 'Frog Sorceror' for example, stands out in a way that 'Serpent King' does not. To use a specific example, with 'Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore', 'Bthuvian' is what elevated it from pandering to clever, in my opinion.

One of the thoughts I had was specifically related to that very adventure:

Contestants may ADD one word. Any one word, anywhere in the title, to the raw random title they get.

As you correctly noted, that one word (well, ok, probably two...) turns pandering to clever.

 

[Insight]

I voted for the one with "Whore" in the title without reading the descriptions

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

A HA!

I'd like to say that all of you voting for the WHORE QUEEN are only confirming the worst stereotypes of us gamers!

(Egads, has the judge just torpedoed one of the contestants!?)

 

[Insight]

A HA!

I'd like to say that all of you voting for the WHORE QUEEN are only confirming the worst stereotypes of us gamers!

(Egads, has the judge just torpedoed one of the contestants!?)

All right, in that case... I vote for the WHORE QUEEN again

 

[Asmor]

Honestly, I think too much attention is being paid to, uh, too much attention being paid to the word "whore."

Random chance is fine and dandy when it's working for you, but I think that the odds are really stacked against some of the entrants. Notably, Siege on the Sunless Palace and The Lost Ruins of Dread sound so horrendously generic that even knowing that they didn't get to pick the title, I still had to force myself to read the descriptions. Of course, I also think that blargney and Rodrigo did a great job of elevating their descriptions well above the blandness their titles would suggest.

 

[GlassJaw]

I'm not going to vote and I also wanted to add an "asterisk" (*) on my entry: my generated title wasn't completely random because I asked for the word "whore".

I've played with the name generator before and knew that it generated "whore" titles so my entry was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. If Wulf wants to tweak the rules or voting, I'm cool with that.

Thanks for those that did vote though and even bigger thanks to those that voted because they liked my entry regardless of the word whore.

 

[Insight]

GJ, I'll play in your whore game anytime

 

[GlassJaw]

GJ, I'll play in your whore game anytime

I know. I want to write it now! It would be very Schwalb-esque. It would have demonic babies in it.