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Finally I got item that kills it wearer as a primary function.

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Less ramblin more praise plzkthxbai.


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Does that reference to Ackbar puts the item fully in the joke item category?


Powerful abilities balanced with serious drawbacks? Thank you, pass... It could be much better item.

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I had given up on seeing my item and then there it was. Made my heart jump a little. Now I can relax a little until the first culling.


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Cheapy wrote:
Less ramblin more praise plzkthxbai.

As soon as I get more great items.

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32 , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8 aka Isaac Duplechain

Hmm, why would the author specifically create a SIAC if that spell isn't in the construction requirements?


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It's funny how you sometimes encounter an item that precisely was one of your ideas for submission, but you discarded it... and you're glad about that, because the other designer did a much better job!

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Lithrac wrote:
It's funny how you sometimes encounter an item that precisely was one of your ideas for submission, but you discarded it... and you're glad about that, because the other designer did a much better job!

I know! I didn't even think about what colour poop you'd have if you ate my first item! (/jk)

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mamaursula wrote:

I know we discussed this last year and it will come up in the critique threads, but I can't wait that long - Please do not use the phrase (or any similar phrase to this) "The true power of the item is revealed when you..." Your items MUST be in an active voice and it really needs to be dynamic. This phrase is not dynamic. Please take this phrase out of your phrase vocabulary.

Thank you.
Me

I've read the repeated posts to this effect, and I have to say I don't really get it. Maybe it's just me, but passive voice just doesn't bother me. Sounds fine. I typically try to avoid it anyway because I know it bothers people, but I've never really understood the rancor it provokes. I guess I'm just weird...

RPG Superstar 2015 Top 8 , Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka moon glum

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Erick Wilson wrote:
mamaursula wrote:

I know we discussed this last year and it will come up in the critique threads, but I can't wait that long - Please do not use the phrase (or any similar phrase to this) "The true power of the item is revealed when you..." Your items MUST be in an active voice and it really needs to be dynamic. This phrase is not dynamic. Please take this phrase out of your phrase vocabulary.

Thank you.
Me

I've read the repeated posts to this effect, and I have to say I don't really get it. Maybe it's just me, but passive voice just doesn't bother me. Sounds fine. I typically try to avoid it anyway because I know it bothers people, but I've never really understood the rancor it provokes. I guess I'm just weird...

In scientific and technical writing people are supposed to use the passive voice. If you read/write a lot of this material, you get used to it.

For magic items and fiction and such, an active voice is probably better. "Uttering the wondrous whatchamagigs command word and flipping it on its head reveals its true power." Its just more dynamic.


Weak and moderate auras on the same item? How it is even done with single CL on the item.


*sigh* so great name I wanted to vote for it... But negative levels it bestows on user... *sigh*


Now I have to choose between two decent cheap items of rather specific utility.

RPG Superstar 2015 Top 8 , Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8 aka moon glum

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I find myself voting for the item with the coolest potential most of the time. Most items are fatally flawed in one way or another, but some have a cool idea behind them.

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Player: I want to invoke this item.
GM: ok how?
Player: ......... invocation
GM: No I mean in what manner?
Player: I don't know . . . Saucily? No, timorously. No, I mean--
GM: Too late, you were supposed to do it boldly.

RPG Superstar 2014 Top 32 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Dedicated Voter Season 9 aka michaeljpatrick

I have seen a few saddles. Mostly so-so. One I LOVE.

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SIAC cooking item with ability that takes up one sentence- with 2 paragraphs of description. :(

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Oh dear, I have a cold that has gone to my chest.

So my wife can sleep, I have decided to battle through and try to catch some sleep downstairs.

The cough is winning, so it looks like a long night of voting ahead.

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Hope you feel better soon Anthony (and keep voting anyway)

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James Raine wrote:
Starting to worry: 30 pages of this thread and the praise thread, and I haven't seen a comment on either that I could reasonably apply specifically to my item. :/

I wouldn't necessarily take that as a bad sign.

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especially not from this thread....

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Jeff Lee wrote:
Momentarily thrilled to see two new items, then I realized it was another soup and another item that turns the wearer undead. Let's see if these can take things up a notch...

How about undead-making soup?

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Anthony Adam wrote:

Oh dear, I have a cold that has gone to my chest.

So my wife can sleep, I have decided to battle through and try to catch some sleep downstairs.

The cough is winning, so it looks like a long night of voting ahead.

Take good care of yourself. My wife has been flattened by a succession of nasty bugs. She mentioned to me today she thought she would feel better if she could remove her head. When I replied I'd seen a wondrous item that would do that, I received "the look" in return.

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Isaac Duplechain wrote:
Hmm, why would the author specifically create a SIAC if that spell isn't in the construction requirements?

To trick you into thinking it wasn't a SIAC?

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Anthony Adam wrote:
The cough is winning, so it looks like a long night of voting ahead.

Have some soup.

Just not wondrous item soup.

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1.85 million? Wow...

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Joke item vs. Toy item, complete with trope indicating which specific toy it came from...grrrr

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Hello rainbow poo,you have been upvoted!

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Three new items in the last four votes... pretty good items!

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This item started with a cute name that drew me in, then an effect that made sense and was kinda neat... then it just kept piling on the effects until I had to, with a broken heart, vote it down. Tempted to keep a copy and alter it for in game use. Just needs a paragraph chopped in half and it would be awesome.

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Cthulhudrew wrote:
James Raine wrote:
Starting to worry: 30 pages of this thread and the praise thread, and I haven't seen a comment on either that I could reasonably apply specifically to my item. :/
I wouldn't necessarily take that as a bad sign.

the worry is that it's not on either thread, so maybe I got DQed for some inexplicable reason.

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James Raine wrote:
Cthulhudrew wrote:
James Raine wrote:
Starting to worry: 30 pages of this thread and the praise thread, and I haven't seen a comment on either that I could reasonably apply specifically to my item. :/
I wouldn't necessarily take that as a bad sign.
the worry is that it's not on either thread, so maybe I got DQed for some inexplicable reason.

The other thread is extremely vague so I wouldn't sweat that too much, this one is mostly snark. I have seen my item 3 times and there's a few comments that could apply to my item in both threads, it doesn't help the jitters any.

You still wonder if you should have cut that last paragraph/ added more description/ used your words more wisely.

You still wonder if you made the right design choices.

Get nervous when you see something with a similar theme and wonder if it's competing with your item.

Draw favorable/unfavorable comparisons to other items. It is the nature of the beast.

Shadow Lodge RPG Superstar 2015 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9 aka mamaursula

Drejk wrote:
Does that reference to Ackbar puts the item fully in the joke item category?

That was my interpretation and thus auto-reject.

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1.85M! Yes! Worth the wait. :)


The formatting is hurting my brain. There is a preview button, yes?

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Marriage item! Drinks all around and congrats to the happy couple!

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So many items that do things without granting a save. So many items that have Magic Aura and "Detect Magic can't find this item".

The worst is when two of them come up against each other.

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James Raine wrote:
the worry is that it's not on either thread, so maybe I got DQed for some inexplicable reason.

It can take a while. I've seen mine twice now, but I've voted over 500 times. Last year, I didn't see mine until after The Cull.

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mamaursula wrote:
Marriage item! Drinks all around and congrats to the happy couple!

I think this is the last square left on my bingo card.

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Chase Item vs Run Away Item! Fight!

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ChesterCopperpot wrote:
mamaursula wrote:
Marriage item! Drinks all around and congrats to the happy couple!
I think this is the last square left on my bingo card.

I just marked that one off recently. I've been looking for the 1.8million item.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2012 Top 16 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9 aka Locke1520

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Tonight has been good for items I haven't seen before and items I haven't seen very often.

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Just voted for the Ghost of Billy Mays product, due to the fact that its competition wasn't a wondrous item.

I feel so dirty. (But I can be shined up here with this...)

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Also, just saw my own item, after nearly 750 votes.

Note to self: boring name. :-/

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Does your party really get lost that much that you require this kind of item?

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I can't believe I finally got back to real time in this thread!

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Been a slow day for it. Everyone is busy or they have run out of new frustrations!

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Still haven't seen my item.
None of the comments in this thread seem to be about it either. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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Item that looks like a riff off a previous top 32 vs an item that looks like a riff off an item from the practice thread.

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