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Garrick Williams: thank you for the through critique! Definitely sheds light on why meta gaming items are so dangerous and can be unfun. Thank you for the kind words about the idea of the ring. I did not catch those formatting errors, my shame!!!

Brigg: no worries! It's very easy to confuse cheeriness with sarcasm in forums. Dat Internet life. Thank you for your positive thoughts and general encouragement!!

Brigg:

None of my previous posts were written with any sarcasm or defensiveness at all. I was sincere in my gratitude for everyone who took the time to even just say they didn't like the item. Obviously the response from the judges wasn't positive, and putting my item out there just to have the response only be two quotes from the judges on how much they disliked the item seems a little less than, constructive id say?

But in the end it was fun to enter the contest, I totally own up to the fact that this was done last minute, and am grateful once again for the feedback.

Thank you!

Gotcha, so all the judges hated my item, good to know I guess! Thanks again!

Josh Colon wrote:

Ring of Retrospection
Aura Strong Divination; CL 17th
Slot Ring; Price 50,000 gp; Weight - lbs.

Description
A beautiful silver ring with a vertical eye engraving, this item has no effect until activated. When the party is about to engage in a full night's rest, the bearer may activate the ring, a soft blue light emanating from the engraved eye. The wearer chooses one combat encounter from the previous 24 hours (in which he was wearing the ring), and all party members involved share a vision of the battle, reliving their decisions and learning from their mistakes. After the vision, Experience Points awarded for the chosen encounter are doubled. The Ring of Retrospection cannot affect an encounter where any of the party's Hit Points reached 0. Once used, the Ring requires 6 days per party member affected in its last use to recharge.

Construction
Requirements Craft Wonderous Item, Foresight, Wish ; Cost 25,000 gp

To be honest this was a last minute entry, I only heard of the contest the day of the deadline and only managed to work on it for about an hour before entering it. So the obvious HUGE mistake of Craft Wonderous item instead of Craft Ring eluded me! So besides that DUMB mistake, i'm eager to see what other thoughts people have. Thank you!!

*I dislike this item to a point that it makes me feel bad for being negative.

*I don't like this item either. It's incredibly meta and underspecified.

Wow, Mark Seifter Really disliked my item, so much so he had to say so twice! I do understand though. Thank you and everyone else for the thoughtful critiques. This is how you learn to get better!

Ring of Retrospection
Aura Strong Divination; CL 17th
Slot Ring; Price 50,000 gp; Weight - lbs.

Description
A beautiful silver ring with a vertical eye engraving, this item has no effect until activated. When the party is about to engage in a full night's rest, the bearer may activate the ring, a soft blue light emanating from the engraved eye. The wearer chooses one combat encounter from the previous 24 hours (in which he was wearing the ring), and all party members involved share a vision of the battle, reliving their decisions and learning from their mistakes. After the vision, Experience Points awarded for the chosen encounter are doubled. The Ring of Retrospection cannot affect an encounter where any of the party's Hit Points reached 0. Once used, the Ring requires 6 days per party member affected in its last use to recharge.

Construction
Requirements Craft Wonderous Item, Foresight, Wish ; Cost 25,000 gp

To be honest this was a last minute entry, I only heard of the contest the day of the deadline and only managed to work on it for about an hour before entering it. So the obvious HUGE mistake of Craft Wonderous item instead of Craft Ring eluded me! So besides that DUMB mistake, i'm eager to see what other thoughts people have. Thank you!!

Oh, ring of endless game-breaking, I will never, ever vote for you. You are simply a GM's nightmare.

Ha! I wonder if that's my item!

I'd be happier with my item if i hadn't made a stupid stupid mistake in the crafting rules. Totally made it so it won't make it to the 32. That's what I get for working on it when I only found out about the contest an hour before the deadline!

Creativity-wise, I think my item is clever. I can tell that it'll be divisive though, many players will like it, but many DM's may think its too much, hah!

What a really interesting sword. I'll go ahead and vote for you.

Someone put my item on the list! Hooray!!

Got to finally see my item! That was thrilling. Even though I made a huge mistake in the construction. Serves me right for submitting when I only knew about the contest an hour before the deadline!