Warren Crowhurst's page

"I made some single homebrew items back in my own campaign, but this competition has a whole bunch of criteria. It's a different kind of designing altogether."

I'm put in mind of an old quote from a help-yourself-book on writing I read once.

'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.'

Edit: That was Arthur Quiller-Couch, as it turns out.

You're a DQ, Item One
Pack up, go home, you're done
Your rules come from Hackmaster, in a game you'd be no fun
Item One...
You're five hundred gold pieces... for a fifty-round stun!

You're an oddball, Item Two
I'm not sure what you do
I see three hundred words of strangeness in a thick linguistic stew
Item Twoooo...
You're a heaping mound of adverbs... bound up with adjective glue!

You're a reject, Item Three
You're a clear SIAC
You're prized by Cats and Gnome Aristocrats, allegedly
Item Threeeee...
Twenty times a day seems quite a lot for just a cast of shillelagh

You're a nightmare, Item Four
A Swiss Army Knife for sure
The list of all the things you do is quite a lengthy bore
Item Four...
You're a web, a fear, a fly, an aid, a bless, a bane, a glide, a haste... and a dimension door?!

You're real nasty, Item Five
You make me scared to rhyme
You're made of bones and ichor and unwashed ogre guts and worse
Item Five...
The three words that describe you best are grim, gorm, glum!

(with apologies to Dr. Seuss.)

I'd vote for 'em.

I feel your pain, man. Think I´m in the same boat. But I guess there are no losers, only students.