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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MavrickWeirdo" data-source="post: 64421" data-attributes="member: 107">Random ThoughtsI am grateful for all the feedback so far about the competition, both from other writers and readers.I'll admit that I am not to sure about the EL of mine, I based it on the NPC level and trap difficulty. In hind sight I might have bumped it up a level, but because there were non-combat options I felt it was fair. As far as format goes I've noticed a common occurence. While some followed the Morrus' rules to the letter, and others seemed to write more randomly, there is a third format which comes up adain and again.  The two column, Background/Summary/Encounter format used by most gaming publishers. I'm not sure how to judge those. I was guessing that the purpose of the Encounter/Location/Character split is that they could be more easily judged seperatly. 2 best location; 2 best characters; 2 best encounters.As far as the page vs. word # debate it made me think of "journalistic" requirements. The number of words you fit on a page can varry, not only from what words you use but how you structure paragraphs. (Dialoge wastes more space than expositon.)I haven't found any yet that I like better than mine, but there are several I feel are just as good. (I've read up to EL 8.)One thing I've noticed is the frequency of Elementals in the encounters.</blockquote>