Chief Technical Officer
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Oh, no! The secret that we first put in our press release last November 25 has leaked!Yes, but did anyone read it? You're expecting RPG Superstar contestants to actually read(!) stuff and plan accordingly(!)? You make it sound as though the winner of this contest has to be all professional about it, like someone designing a published module or something.
We're just testing your Perception skill.
Yes, but did anyone read it?
I did!
Rules-fu sounds scary enough already... Brr, I don't want to have to come up with new mechanics so early in my "adventuring" career.
Well, I came up with new rules for my wondrous item :D
Considering what is behind my villains concept, i guess coming up with new rules for it won't be that hard now... as long as I dont spend too much time explaining the origin of the rules idea ;)
But don't get me wrong. I appreciate lots of folks liked my villain. And I appreciate you guys liked it and voted for it, too. I'm just saying the contest is far from over. It's only one round. Everything resets with the next assignment. And it feels...odd?...stressful?...to be singled out quite so starkly. It also heaps a lot more pressure to somehow meet a higher set of expectations...
Neil, if it helps, I didn't vote for you. :)
Neil, if it helps, I didn't vote for you. :)
Yeah...thanks, Carl. I feel much better now. ;-)
And, if it helps, I actually did vote for you.
--Neil
Neil, if it helps, I didn't vote for you. :)Yeah...thanks, Carl. I feel much better now. ;-)
And, if it helps, I actually did vote for you.
--Neil
Do you remember what the reward is for getting an early lead in the Diplomacy game is?
Do you remember what the reward is for getting an early lead in the Diplomacy game is?
Vividly, because it happens to me every time I play. I keep forgetting that it isn't a strategy game. We have a house rule: everyone who plays Diplomacy has to be able to get home on their own.
Well, voting is complete. Now we wait. And wait. And wait...
Doyle
Good luck to all the contestants.
Congratulations to those that advance.
To those that do not advance, let me say nice work. I enjoyed reading all the entries.
I honestly don't know if I'll be more relieved to go on to the next round, where I know I'm strong, or if I don't advance and can stop stressing for a few days.
I hear you! I am definitely feeling the same way. :)
Congrats to the Top 17! Good luck on those stat blocks!
-Speck
Congratulations to the top sixt...err, seventeen! (how cool is that?) I wish all of you the best of luck, and I really look forward to seeing great things from you.
I'd also like to thank everyone again for all of the great feedback, especially the judges. I've learned a lot, even from just one round, and I look forward to applying those lessons next year.
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32
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Star Voter Season 6
aka TerraNova
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Well, i wrote a short concession on my blog. The gist of it is "the better contestants won". I wish all of you good luck, and am really interested to see how this race turns out in the end.
I'll try again next year - maybe a little better prepared. If I get to the top 32 again (hey, the Maw managed!), expect a four-week result instead of a two-day result.
Congrats to everyone who made it and best of luck next time around for those that didn't. I'm off to pass out for a minute before helping the wife strip paint off the stairs/think up an interesting villain's stat block.
Cheers!
Congrats.
In others news, stock of peptobismal dropped at the announcement.
Says you bud...
Should there be another - more elite - guildhall for the top 17?
Should there be another - more elite - guildhall for the top 17?
Nah, everyone paid there dues, we all can hang here. Not only that, do you have the zoning ordinance for another guildhall?
Should there be another - more elite - guildhall for the top 17?Nah, everyone paid there dues, we all can hang here. Not only that, do you have the zoning ordinance for another guildhall?
Even if I did, I would not qualify for entrance, so I would not be that motivated to create one. :D
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
Should there be another - more elite - guildhall for the top 17?According to conspiracy theorists, the Illuminati didn't build their own temples. They just moved into Masonic temples and hung out with ordinary, non-Illuminati Masons. A secret society within a secret society. So clearly, the Top 16 don't need their own special pad.
Not that we Top 16 have anything to do with the secret societies. And I assure you, there's absolutely no secret significance to the ominous prime number that appeared a few days ago, usurping a role supposedly reserved for a nice, wholesome 16.
Silentium vos fossor! Vos mos prosterno panton per vestri inanis prattling!
Er... HAHAHAHA! That's sooo silly Eric...
Your fault you chose a spellcaster :D
Your fault you chose a spellcaster :D
Oh sure, just rub it in cuz you've got the easy mechanic:
Drinking souls in three easy steps.
1 - Obtain soul.
2 - Mix soul, sour mix, two shots of whiskey.
3 - Serve over ice.
;D
See? Simple and effective! ;)
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8
aka Tarren Dei
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Your fault you chose a spellcaster :DOh sure, just rub it in cuz you've got the easy mechanic:
Drinking souls in three easy steps.
1 - Obtain soul.
2 - Mix soul, sour mix, two shots of whiskey.
3 - Serve over ice.;D
Wasn't 'soulcrusher' a bonus feat available to the high school cheerleader prestige class?
Three freakin' pages of nothing but stat block and math!
Uh, yeah - things are HUGE. Especially since the format is not the place where you can shorthand with 'as the Druid ability'.
All the math, while necessary for the judging of the round, makes things look horrible.
I was sad that BBCode wouldn't let us use color this time around (or if it would, by Asmodeus I could never get it to work).
Testing a theory (too late now):
SkillName +23
*shrug*, can't get 'em on the same line...
Aside from the fact that it might be violating the rules, there actually is a way to color things; use ooc blocks:
SkillName +23
Yet another formatting convention I refrained from using because the formatting rules were so strict.
The formatting rules didn't prevent you from using the BBCode. Rob McCreary used it last year to great effect. Clark even praised him for it.
There was nothing about the stat-block formatting that ruled out what you could do to highlight the "math" anyway. It was basically just there to show you what needed to be bolded and italicized. So I used the BBCode exactly for those reasons.
My two-cents,
--Neil
If I had realized that was how you did that.. I certainly would have!
I did however use the spoiler tags to break up the three sections in the hopes it would be a little easier to read.
That is what the ooc BBCode does?! *forehead slap*
I just thought that color tags had been an option in 2008 and for whatever reason had been disabled this year.
Yeah, I saw the praise Rob McCreary received last year for it, and tried to act on it...
Oh well, folks will see what I did instead of the ooc code...
Well my weekend goals have been accomplished, Friday re-read and post stat block, Saturday, finish building Xavier's crib.
Yay!
I'll take too.