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For when a player gets all uppity.

Awesome. You might not recognize me since I mostly work through Steve (and my name on here isn't my real name) but I designed the Aasaimar, Minotaur, Ratfolk, Sahuagin, and Tiefling NPC's and love the art that they got.

I think I will toss my hat in the ring.

I sleep propped up against one of the dock posts and even when not sleeping am very still. I keep a wary eye on our surroundings and tr to mentally gauge the distance between myself and any possible cover. If the night goes uneventfully, I rise early and do some morning stretches and a short jog, always keeping one side to the river so as not to get lost.

I have updated my character sheet to reflect my new mithril shirt.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
Bluff: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

This is awesome. And a free monster to go with it.

"Can someone remind me why staying on the boat was such a bad idea? This is not what I would consider suddle. With that you see Ky throw the end of his scarf over his shoulder and two daggers appear in his hands.

sleight of hand: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

oh now I roll well

not even top 100, that's a bit of a let down. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

I'm not a judge for this round, but what {I}I{/I} want to see in a monster is something interesting that makes sense and gives me a sense of wonder. If you can do that with only existing rules and abilities? I'll be very impressed.

This was a hint to preview your monster before submitting.

Goblins in the servers and kobolds in the halls...whats next...

I love that response, roughly translated I think it says "If you do it better be really good and not break another rule."

I don't generally approve of cake.

EDIT—Ugh. That was supposed to post as "Four Horsemen—Famine". Every year it gets me.

We should rename this the "If you can still use aliases stay out" thread.

I have not read a single page of occult adventures or reign of winter yet so this might be interesting but....I have til the 13th to research and I think this would be a good challenge for me. Let's do it.

About two years ago my group started a new campaign, about 3 sessions in someone asked me what race I was and my response was "I FORGOT TO PICK ONE!" and then proceeded to fix that oversight.

I've discovered a new way to figure out who is the top 32. Everyone who wasn't culled start start posting your items publicly. The last 32 people to do so are the winners. :)

PS: don't do this.

I'm hoping at least 1 >_>

While we are sharing inspirational quotes...

"Wise man once said, never pay full price for late pizza.

I have to say I have no idea what items will appear, because some of the most amazingly pedestrian (and indeed a few entirely questionable) items seemed to have survived whereas other, way more (or even extremely) interesting items did not. I'm not seein an increase in excellence or a tight competition - I'm seeing the results of letting a section of the fans crucify a lot of creativity on the pillar of hum-drum. Which is how democracy works. Bring back enlightened despotism.

Anything that was culled likely never would have been seen by judges anyway. They typically looked at the top 100 maybe a little further if they just really really wanted to golden ticket something.

It is 30. (If you want to check for yourself you can go to the paizo store pull up a flip mat and count) As far as scanning and printing you may have to go to a local print this copy that or Office depot or something to get the file printed/scanned. If you do it on graph paper it will end up way to small and would look really sad when blown up. I don't have a scanner either so this is my plan.

Oh item that I liked, I was reading you over again to enjoy you and realized I had to submit you for possible DQ. I r dissapoint.

Hundreds of contestants just went "ahh what did I do!"

It appears quite helpful and may be prized by very very good designers.

"What is this 'Dungeons and Dragons' drivel? This is not Make A New Game Superstar material! *Dumps*"

More like "you made an item that sucks someone into a black hole and instantly kills them with no save?...well alright"

OMG! I love that item. Like more than mine and maybe more than any item I've seen in this contest...ever.

It amazes me how many people still tried to submit Occult items and referenced occult rules and spells.

I'm scared of this author and I don't know who they are, which makes it scarier.

You want me to do what with my what?

Its considered very very VERY bad form. Imagine making something you cred a great deal about and then watching people trash it and not being able to say anything. It also says on the voting page "Do not discuss individual entries on the messageboards during the voting period.
If you see forum posts discussing specific entries, please flag them as "Breaks other guidelines.""

No Monica. just...no.

I knew I shouldn't have submitted my intelligent cursed staff of artifacts.

I'm fine with whatever. I do just want to let everyone know. This is my first play-by-post so if I break some sort of online rule or something it isnt intentional, just let me know.

Note: This is just my speculation.

I don't think it will be an encounter size map as that is Round 4. The point he seems to be making with the forest example is that if you zoom out that far the whole thing needs to interesting and worth mapping. In his example, you might map the town but there's no real reason to map the forest or road unless there is something unique about it. What I took from this is if you zoom in to far there won't be enough space to do anything interesting and Superstar with but zoom out to far and you will end up with a lot of pointless dead space that doesn't need to be mapped.

This is just a brief overview of what rd 2 will be. More exact details will be released with the official rd 2 rules. Either later today or Tuesday. (they are closed Monday so unless Owen feels really benevolent it won't be then)

Bring it on.
Throw me your curve balls.
If I can't overcome them I wasn't ready. I want this contest to be as hard as possible so that if I ever win I'm ready for what that entails.

So give me short deadlines, insane tasks, and whatever challenges you can. I will rise to the the occasion or use the next year to get better and try again next year.

*turns on eye of the tiger*

Culls allow paizo to spread the pack out, by cutting the bottom x% those items no longer are getting paired with the good items that get an auto vote just because the other item is not very well done, or isn't formatted, or is a joke item. Post cull you take a group of relatively closely clumped items and force them to be separated out by being compared only to each other. If you want to just don't look at the items I've seen thread and you will never know if you were culled or not. The contest isn't to see how many people paizo can get to vote. It's to find the best designer. If the culled people stop paying attention after the cull, that's sad because it means they wont get better. But it is still good for the contest over all.

Last year I thought I didn't stand a chance and made top 32, this year I feel pretty good about my chances, so I probably won't even make top 100.

bad ahh

You guys are gonna feel real silly when next years contest is design a earthbreaker or torc.

My only thought for rd 2 so far: AHHHHHHH!

My goal is to get champion next year. That way i can be star, dedicated, marathon and champion. Gotta catch em all

My item did not make the Cull either. I will not lie. It IS disheartening, even though I utterly never expected it to make top32 (though I had some hope for top100, not having seen critiques that seemed aimed at it).

At the very least, I expected to make the Cull.

That said, I obviously did not expect the Cull to be so wide.

And I think that is a mistake.

Right, now, I do not feel like trying my chance again. I do not even feel like keeping on voting. It all seems empty.

If other would-be designers, far more gifted than I am, feel the same way, then that is a bad thing for the industry.

So, I feel that keeping the Cull to the lesser 25% would have been wiser.

So that 250 more would-be designers could feel that they have at least succeeded at surviving the Cull.

I know that I have seen many of the items on my Keep list lost to the Cull. Especially the humorous ones.

I fervently hope that the designers of these items will post on the Critique my item thread so that I can at last tell them how wonderful their creation was to me.

I will likely put my item there too, together with the many reasons I guess at for not making it through the Cull.

Sorry for the down note guys, but I needed to speak my heart on this.

If getting rejected once is enough to make you quit this might not be the job for you. Its a lot of rejection. the cull was larger this year because it was done so late in voting. This helps spread the pack out. take out most of the not so good items and people have to start comparing decent items as opposed to obv better to obv worse. From what I understand it was roughly 50%. That means that somewhere between 400-500 items where ahead of yours. It isn't bad for the industry, it's good for the contest.

Paizo is good people. I'm not going to go into specifics but they are publishing my quiver from last year and they did contact me about payment. They don't run this to try to steal ideas. I think it's more to protect themselves if something did occur.

Finally saw my item!

If your item is well balanced and has a good strong flavor/theme you will be fine.

I think that's the exact thing we disagree on. I look at the top 32 from last year and I don't see overpowered items or judge comments about being broken but fixable. I see well designed and balanced items. The public will vote for a well designed balanced item with good flavor over an overpowered item. Even just reading the critique thread for this year you see a lot of players and GM's complaining about how they would never vote for such a powerful item. Balance and flavor are the name of the game.

intricate runes are the new filigree

Did the dwarfs of golarion discover a million tons of mithril when I wasn't paying attention? There's no reason to make that from mithril

So many immediate actions. "But wait I'm gonna use my [redacted]!" "Not so fast, I'll use my [redacted]!"

You fool, you've triggered my trap card.

34. hack sony (to soon?)

I think I'm alone here but if your item isn't formatted properly (no bold, italics, pieces missing such as cost or slot) I don't even read it. To me that says you didn't read the rules and submit what was asked which does not make for a good designer. Next I look to make sure that the item uses terms that actually exist in the game, after that I look for cohesive theme and symmetry. At that point I pretty much always have a winner.

Thank you author for the quotes and in depth back story for your item.