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Well, I'm going to have to leave the hour countdown to others. It's midnight here in Atlantic Canada and my cats are informing me that I shouldn't still be up (well, Channey is trying to enforce this. She is a stickler for schedule. Pepi could care less.) So good luck keeping the countdown going! I'll see you guys tomorrow!

See, that is strange to me. My cats only seem to be alive when I am trying to sleep...

I know I'm a little late into this thread. I'm very nervous. I ended up being very busy after the first week or so of voting, so I don't have a particularly strong frame-of-reference for how my item stacks up. I saw many items that were worse than mine...but I now don't feel that my item has alot of that "pow WHAM SHAZZAAAAM" that a contest-oriented submission should have.

It is weird. I've never done anything like this before. I've had close friends have great success with RPG Superstar...indeed who quote it as a turning point in their lives. I guess this leaves me feeling like I'm about to make a jump off a precipice, looking to land on the classic "rpg life-saving getaway ship", but I think I'm bad at jumping, at least in this god-awful metaphor.

My inactivity on the boards coupled with the fact that only only other entry was at the original RPG Superstar multiplied by the fact that nobody cares who I am means that none shall know! NONE!

A FINE strategy. I applaud your below-the-radar-ness. That is the sign of only the truest of geniuses.

Warren Crowhurst wrote:

RonarsCorruption wrote:

Anthony Adam wrote:

At least 32 and less than 100 billion I think :P

I'd put a maximum around 7 billion. I can't assume we'd get more entries than there are people currently living on the planet.

Hey, we can´t rule out extraterrestrial life. An RPG´s just the thing to take the edge off a long space voyage, and an electronically available game system´s bound to be more convenient...

This is true. Also, this is the internet. If there aren't at twice-thirty times as many people that "totally exist" out here, then I will be especially disappointed.

WOW, Dan. Stellar english.

RonarsCorruption wrote:

Anthony Adam wrote:

At least 32 and less than 100 billion I think :P

I'd put a maximum around 7 billion. I can't assume we'd get more entries than there are people currently living on the planet.

Hey, we can´t rule out extraterrestrial life. An RPG´s just the thing to take the edge off a long space voyage, and an electronically available game system´s bound to be more convenient...

This is true. Also, this is the internet. If there aren't at twice-thirty times as many people that "totally exist" out here, then I will be especially disappointed.

Boomer:

I like that you have finally managed to produce an organised and relatively clear entry to this contest. I have no problems with the map; I understand how fiddly and time-consuming using a scanner can be- especially if you have little/no former experience of using one. I was slightly concerned that you hadn't got a pair of compasses out to try and mark the areas of the alarm spells, wail traps, etc, but I take the point that one of the former posters made that this could be a map produced to be a player handout of the room.
In your defence (eep; I wasn't expecting to find myself saying that) I have no problem wth death effects/level-drain at this level. 15th-16th level parties have access to death-ward and multiple divination effects, and I can find nothing in the encounter outline to to indicate that such things are blocked in the chamber. This seems to me like a 'routine encounter' (unless there is some kind of intense time pressure on the PCs) for 15th-16th level characters, as was required by the guidelines.
As a mild criticism I would have simply gone with 'fourfold curse' on the Lord Adjudicator instead of saying that it is 'three-fold and one'. Reading through it, it looks like there are four different afflictions in terms of effects there, even if one of them is a 'blanket' one, whilst the others target specific things.
Hmmm. The Lord Adjudicator doesn't seem to get out and about much, as he doesn't ever leave this room; I wonder if the 'curse' would translate into a small elven mythal (almost certainly not SRD) which covers just this room- with three minor powers and one major power....

The curse name...well, Boomer is/strikes me as a man raised in Planescape, hence the three and one title. As in, the rule of three. While I love the curse in its entirety, the first two parts of the curse are definately more directed at setting the Adjudicator as an enemy, whilst the other two seem to bolster the curse or another aspect of the curse.