Huge congratulations to you, Nick!
RPG Superstar is my favorite time of the year... See you all again next year!
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Best of luck to every single one of you, and congratulations. RPGs need writers as talented as you.
Thanks, Mikko. Here's hoping I make it--I'm really going to bring the mojo next round. (As I feel I did this round.)
PM me the item, please? :-)
Bees? BEEEEEEEES
*shrugs* A lot of PF SRD text explicitly assumes a gender, and it tends to be random. Read the class descriptions. Barbarian and Paladin use female pronouns, Ranger and Rogue use male. I actually like it this way, rather than using "they." To each their own.I'm sure thon was doing thon's best.Or even just, you know, they and its close relatives. The class pronouns are actually based off the gender of the corresponding iconic character.
Are the items paired always of roughly equal "quality," as determined by the votes so far?
A little And So I Watch You From Afar right now. Still trying to decide if I like them or not.
Ghost armor versus ghost wondrous...
If you are indeed a fourth grader, I respect the courage it took to enter RPGSS! If you're not a fourth grader, please double-check your basic English spelling and grammar rules.
Making maps is one of my favorite things to do as a GM. There are a lot of reasons I would love to make the Top 32, but the chance to be a part of the map round is high on the list.
Ah, mediocre item joke item vs. DQ-worthy backstory item, we meet again.
Yup! Voting will become much easier once the initial flurry of activity dies down.
Gotcha. Thanks PA! I have a timezone finder open on my browser now.... Ouch, that stings... I'm sorry. If nothing else, at least you got more design practice.
Voting will begin on my lunch break tomorrow. I know where that hour is going!
How did you tell that some things were minor artifacts? Just that they had no price and couldn't be crafted?They actually self-identified it as a "minor artifact"... :) Sounds like the perfect time to submit my new apparatus, "minor jpeg artifact"!
How did you tell that some things were minor artifacts? Just that they had no price and couldn't be crafted?
Or the "I've submitted my item but voting still hasn't started yet" freakout and speculation thread. How do you pass the time between the submission time and the start of voting? (Mostly, I try to forget that this contest exists for a day or two.) I guess the real superstar answer would be to work on all the other RPG projects you're doing!
Thanks so much to everyone who has put so much effort into critiquing the items in this thread. I hope you'll give me your feedback on my entry. =) Soulfire Band
As a free action, the wearer may command this ring to absorb the soul of any living creature she has killed this round with a melee weapon attack. The ring can hold up to 20 HD worth of souls in this manner. A creature's soul cannot be trapped if its HD exceed the ring's remaining capacity. As a standard action, the wearer may ignite up to three of the stored souls as soulfire: silvery flames that echo with the shrieks of the damned. Soulfire can be directed as: • A single scorching ray, or
Soulfire deals fire damage equal to the hit dice spent in the attack. For example, spending the souls of two ogres with 4d8 HD creates a scorching ray or fireball dealing 8d8 points of fire damage. This replaces the damage normally dealt by a ray or fireball. A creature whose soul is trapped in the ring cannot be restored to life until its soul is freed, and a creature whose soul is burned as soulfire cannot be resurrected by anything short of a wish or miracle spell. All trapped souls are harmlessly released when the ring is removed or the ring is destroyed. Construction
Congratulations, everyone! I didn't place this year, but I look forward to following the contest as it unfolds. =)
a very well articulated statement Perfectly said. This contest is 20% making quality material, and 80% making quality material under inconvenient circumstances... because that's just how the industry is.
Thanks so much to everyone in this thread. You've kept me sane and eagerly voting away for these past few weeks. Now I guess it's time to sketch a few more maps in the judges' week. Best of luck to everyone!
I always vote for this rod, it's such a nice twist on a classic item.
So far I've seen... not a lot of rings, weirdly. A ton of them seem to have gotten culled.
That rod looks a lot like a pair of boots...
I'm super happy about making the cull, but there are still over three hundred items being cut to 100, and then to just 32. So only 10% of the cull survivors will advance to the next round. Those are humbling odds... so I'll stay humble.
The item list says I survived the cull! And I'm thrilled to see so many new, high-quality items showing up in my voting window.
I've basically stopped reading items that aren't formatted properly...
I downvote this sword every time I see it. Why does it plague me so?
Just saw my item for the first time! That made my day a little bit brighter.
A perfectly-formatted joke item paired with a terribly formatted, super-mediocre item...
Agh, I love you, flavorful little weapon, but your formatting errors and descriptive faux pas' condemn you.
The two options are starting to blur together... I think that's the signal to stop for the night.
Once an item's formatting crosses the line from mediocre to bad, I stop giving it a chance. Just like you, little ring.
Item with bad formatting vs. item with worse formatting. x_x
I've been voting for several hundred items and I haven't seen mine yet, so I wouldn't worry yet! Unless you committed copyright infringement, made a non-Pathfinder item, or submitted a Wondrous Item, your entry should still be tumbling around in there somewhere.
Fire themed item, you are so boring. Is it because fire themed items can only do damage? I saw a pretty cool fire-themed armor a while ago. I wish I'd saved it.
I thought I was looking at a Cage-themed joke item, but it was actually pretty cool.
I'm surrounded by walls of text!
I just can't vote for alignment-based mechanics in good conscience.
Damn, that is a stylish staff. I'm blown away by how many cool staves I've seen so far.
This one sword keeps showing up, and it's formatted so terribly, but its abilities are so fun...
This item, sometimes known as "something completely different..."
Whoever made this item is clearly insane, but that's okay because it's amazing. That's the kind of mojo I wanna hear about!
disarming shields seem common this year. Attack-reflecting shields seem even more common, from my end.
My (general) ranking is
(has anyone else found passives all over to be a side effect of academic writing?). Maybe that's why textbooks and [poorly written] RPG sourcebooks are such a chore to read. There's just no action!
I'm very pleased with what I've produced. I feel that I managed to blend flavor and mechanics very nicely. It feels a little "wondrous" to me, but I think it has enough mojo to push through that concern.
A staff that uses Ki or something else might also run the risks of braking game balance. Also I could see many of these written in away that having one would make having that character type in the group obsolete, something the design gurus have warned against. That said, even Pathfinder isn't free from caster hegemony, and normal staves aren't helping on that front anyway. The beleaguered monk has become a fair sight better than he was in 3.5e and other d20 games, but it's far from perfectly balanced. I think a ki staff (etc.) could help shift that balance towards resource-based martial characters.
Do we get any feedback on our Items to help us next time? The last few years there have been "Critique my Item" threads that have popped up a few days after the Top 32 have been announced. And if you get into the Top 32, then the judges will leave their feedback on your submission.
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