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Congrats ya'all.
and good luck!

If I am lucky enough to advance to the top-16, I was wondering if it would be a mark against our encounter if we used a monster that got 3 downvotes from the judges?
Should we wait and make sure the monster we use made the top 16, so we know that at least we are using a monster that the voting public liked?

any thoughts would be appreciated-

-AU

I have played at Andy's table numerous times, and always have had fun times.
The Green Market, Hellknights Feast (with the guy who wouldn't leave the cellar), and Port Godless were all great sessions.

Congrats Andy!

yeah, good luck everyone

Hey, thanks for all the comments.

I am a fist time entrant with no real writing experience, so I appreciate the feedback on getting the language tighter.

I was shooting for a fairly simple effect, but I really wanted to try and inspire the imagination with a cool visual. And it seems that I achieved at least that much.

On the price, I pretty much just ballparked it. I knew the item that gave permanent poison protection was 27k, so I figured 6000gp for basically 1xday and an attunement period was about right. But some of your comments have convinced me that maybe that was too low.

Personally, I like scorpions, so I went with that theme, but I think any reasonable GM will allow their players to re-skin with whatever charm they like (spider, imp, etc).

I went with neck slot and a choker because I liked the image of having the charm tight against your skin, so it can absorb the poison.

I guess I could have re-thought the delivery method/mechanics. I envisioned that maybe you face a spider in one encounter, and in a future encounter, you would already have the weapon ready to go with the poison. Since a lot of the creatures that poison you are immune to their own. And some targets are more susceptible than others, so you may want to wait before delivering it.But I agree it can be a challenge to absorb and deliver in the same encounter.

The Gm would have to keep track of the poison stats. I think that with a knowledge check, the character could get a good idea of the strength of the poison.

Anyhow there were so many great items out there, that mine could easily be on the outside, so I am truly thankful to all the voters and judges who liked this enough to make it top-32

-Andrew

'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by Austin Grossman was a good one.

And if any of you gave up on the Wheel of Time series, the final 3 books are quite good.

have a good weekend everyone, and good luck!