RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Ghoul-slayer Gloves: these had a high cool factor for me because I was visualizing the gauntlets from the old computer game Heretic. I WANT some magic gloves that let me blast undead with crackling electric bolts!
Those were mine. So much I'd love to say about them, but now's not the time. Glad you liked them!
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The other was the a matryoshka that dealt with the elements. I thought it was really cool the way there were two sets of effects that could be mixed and matched.
I'm glad I saved both of them off, because they're both going to see use in my games :)
Actually, Cheapy, could you message those to me? The idea of mixing and matching the two sets together is actually pretty intriguing.
I made the mistake of NOT saving a lot of the items I saw, so the ones I liked are coming purely from memory.
I'm hoping I see them up in the critique threads so I can nab them =)
Porcine Pendant. The thought of a dancing pig that made people more susceptible to my charms... It still makes me smile. =)
The Dragon Claw. I've often tried to think of alternate ways to recharge staffs.
Porcine Pendant. The thought of a dancing pig that made people more susceptible to my charms... It still makes me smile. =)
Totally saved that one its fun
Porcine Pendant. The thought of a dancing pig that made people more susceptible to my charms... It still makes me smile. =)Totally saved that one its fun
Me too.
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The dragon claw was also on my list. I think an item like that would actually open up staves to being used more often, which is hardly a bad thing. Those guys aren't used as often as they should be!
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I liked the signet that showed you who opened the letter. Simple, well-written, would use.
Hey, what about that cool saddle that let you ride gorillas? Oh yeah, that was awesome...
:P
Actually, I liked the sling saddle. Made my keep list, but not my top 32. Mainly because it just seemed a bit too esoteric. Only ape-riding halflings...makes for a cool idea for a remote tribe of jungle halflings with ape cavalry (and I may totally steal that idea later) but a bit too far out of the mainstream for a top slot, to me.
Thank you. :) Lesson learned for next year.
Murder Bag? Wasn't the name of the sack for dead bodies?
I knew Patchwork Cat would get a lot of votes even though I didn't like it. It's the internet, after all! The internet runs on cats!
Bedroll Of Nightly Travels was one I believe someone referenced in the thread as well.
And Candle Of Distant Assurance was indeed a very evocative item. I thought it had a slim chance since it's not "exciting", but I loved it.
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Me too.Porcine Pendant. The thought of a dancing pig that made people more susceptible to my charms... It still makes me smile. =)Totally saved that one its fun
I loved the image of the dancing pig in the middle of a dumbfounded crowd. Possibly in a barfight. I thought it would make a great feather token.
Hey, what about that cool saddle that let you ride gorillas? Oh yeah, that was awesome...
It definitely was an item I'd except to see in a Mwangi Expanse book; something that NPCs would find more fitting than a PC. Not saying it was bad, just a bit location demanding (which kind-of fits the problem of my item as well, which was a Scarf that ended up, post-submitting, sounded like it was geared towards the Reigns of Winter adventure path)
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I knew Patchwork Cat would get a lot of votes even though I didn't like it. It's the internet, after all! The internet runs on cats!
Conveniantly, the Patchwork Cat also runs on cats. ...That was actually the part that kinda squicked me out...
I loved the body bag item that let you stuff a corpse into it. The group I gm for is obsessed with collecting dead npcs for interrogation later. Thought this item would be absolutely perfect! I wish I'd had the forethought to grab the info on it so we could use it in our game. Oh well. Kudos to whomever wrote that!
Isn't there a magical body bag in Classic Treasures Revisited in the Bag of Holding section?
Yes, I wasn't a fan of the patchwork cat nor the jellyfish submersible. Just didn't resonate with me.
And of course I loved my item, which will be submitted for critique on Friday. I think in hindsight I went too safe and somewhat bland, mixed in with my lack of spell italics...I just wasn't Superstar.
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I have to say I liked the Cubes of Crossbreeding. Not only were they fun, but the mechanics for crossing the two species were really easy and wouldn't bog down the game. Plus, you get to roll more dice, and who doesn't like that?
Thanks for the nod to my cubes! Despite my nonstop voting for several days, I never saw them pop up. I am already working on next year's submission, thanks to some great ideas I've seen pop up here.
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My favorite was the birdcage of masterwork knives. I don't remember the name.
Way to go Rabbitball! Loved 'em.
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Ishikawa's Purse was the awesome gold throwing as shruken item loved it...
Thank you! Never saw it come up in the voting on my end... I was assuming the whole time "whelp, looks like the 'only monks or ninja with Flurry of Stars can use this' is gonna kill it!" But I'm glad you liked it, Solspiral!
Orthos: It was named after Ishikawa Goemon, a Japanese folk hero who was famous for throwing money like shuriken.
Ishikawa's Purse was the awesome gold throwing as shruken item loved it...Thank you! Never saw it come up in the voting on my end... I was assuming the whole time "whelp, looks like the 'only monks or ninja with Flurry of Stars can use this' is gonna kill it!" But I'm glad you liked it, Solspiral!
Orthos: It was named after Ishikawa Goemon, a Japanese folk hero who was famous for throwing money like shuriken.
Dude that's going to be treasure in my next game, there'll be some ninja on ninja voilence and I know the player is going to freak about that purse. Honestly, expected to see that item.
In no particular order...
The candle that tells you when someone has died: I know it's a simple idea, and arguably not "superstar", but the description was so evocative and it's such a good fit in the fantasy genre. As well as offering the slim hope that perhaps the linked person might only be on another plane!
I second this. It was such a simple idea, and it feels as if it already exists in Golarion, even if it's not high up on the average adventurer's want list.
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My favorite was the birdcage of masterwork knives. I don't remember the name.
I think that was the Roost of Razors and that was certainly in my top 32 along with the Candle of Distant Assurance. Both of those were strong keeps for me.
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While I will be posting a personal top 32 list in the next few days, I'll just here mourn my top items that also made my 'but probably too weird for primetime' side list.
The aforementioned patchwork cat. Probably my overall favorite. It does cheer me up to hear it did well in the overall votes.
The golden monkey of greed. Less, i'll admit, for its main use than for the fact that somewhere in the world there's probably a 'master of monkeys' who's rolling in the gold coins he collects daily.
The discordant cur. I was won over with 'Should it be struck soundly, it will cease to yap.' I imagined the description being read in a snooty brit accent.
The brooch of the dragon's hoard. I can imagine people getting hung up on the metagaminess of it, but I just loved that it represented a solution to all those adventure designers who assign a gold value to giant immovable setting pieces and then snidely put a 'getting it out of the dungeon is a challenge left up to the PCs'.
And last but not least, the flask of the moonchild. Oh, I loved this creepy little thing. I never saw it after the cull, so it's possible the creepy-gonzo factor turned too many voters off too fast. Pity, if so.
You know what would be awesome? A free pdf of all the items, arranged by slot...
Pretty please? :::does the big sad eyes bit:::
Items I liked but knew were too far out of mainstream gaming style to make the top 32-
Escapee's Spoon
Toastmaster's Glass
Lute Of Enveloping (playing the tune to retrieve the item won me over)
Garter Of Hidden Fortune
Candle Of Distant Assurance
Orator's Torc
I also really liked Paper Messenger, the sole walkie talkie that I really enjoyed. I thought it might squeak in.
Yeah, the Paper Messenger was a cool little thing. As far as message-sending items went, I liked the way it functioned a lot better than the others I saw. The bit about it squeezing under doors was cool.
I'll mention most of mine starting Friday (since honestly I think we should probably hold off on even this thread in favor of the Top 32), but I want to call out one I liked that I think disappeared in the cull: the battlevoice token.
I actually didn't copy it down, since it grew on me as I voted more, so I don't remember it exactly, but I don't think it actually had any stated mechanical effect the way most items do. It created a massive illusion of yourself and let you be heard up to a mile away, but there weren't really any rules involved in the presentation. That said, I felt like it was a really neat item and I was curious how people would end up using it. Since I'm sure people would find some really cool things for it.
I'm pretty sure the Battlevoice survived the cull. I know I saw it a number of times. The first time I read it, I missed the giant illusion part and thought it was just another communication item. But the giant illusion did add some coolness. You could see certain gamestyles that would enjoy that.
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Sean, I agree with you on the discordant cur. That sentance was one of my favorites out of all of the items this year. And I saw the flask of the moonchild post-cull, so it made it that far. I liked it, but I will say it distrubed me a bit pondering all of the implications of it.
Yeah, the Paper Messenger was a cool little thing. As far as message-sending items went, I liked the way it functioned a lot better than the others I saw. The bit about it squeezing under doors was cool.
*blush* Oh my gods, someone liked my item, I can go to bed happy now. :P
*Toddles off to comment on a few more Top 32 items before passing out*
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No love for the nautilus pack of tangled tentacles? I loved that thing!
By the way, I think I can safely speak for all the judges when I say we are truly impressed with the attention and devotion and analysis you all gave to the items. Great work!
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No love for the nautilus pack of tangled tentacles? I loved that thing!
Oh, I quite liked that one too. Didn't make my top 64, but probably fell right outside.
I'm pretty sure the Battlevoice survived the cull. I know I saw it a number of times. The first time I read it, I missed the giant illusion part and thought it was just another communication item. But the giant illusion did add some coolness. You could see certain gamestyles that would enjoy that.
I saw it post-cull as well. It was an orb that you placed on the ground and it created a massive illusion of yourself so you could shout commands to battle groups far away.
In a Stargate SG-1 episode, Jaffa insurgent trainees had an orb that you placed on the ground to create a massive illusion of Apophis that could shout commands to battle groups far away.
I was willing to give the author enough benefit of the doubt to not flag the item, but I couldn't vote for it. Sorry.
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*blush* Oh my gods, someone liked my item, I can go to bed happy now. :P
*Toddles off to comment on a few more Top 32 items before passing out*
You can wake up happy too, the paper messenger was fairly cool and I liked it best amung pass a message items. Would have gotten more votes from me if I didn't see a version of it before called the origami familiar made by Meepo in his request a monster thread.
Echoing GM_Solspiral in that it was my favorite of the pass a message items. What I thought of was Harry Potter where Hermione makes animated origami and in the Ministry of Magic where they have those paper airplanes for interoffice messages.
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Definitely +1 to the tentacle backpack, birdcage of knives, paper messenger, dragonhoard brooch, and moonchild. (Freaky as the moonchild was, I could see it being a major plot point for villains... which is probably why it didn't make it, heh.)
Don't recall seeing a discordant cur. What did it do?
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I also liked the candle of distant assurance. I couldn't see using it myself, but I got an image of walking into a temple of Iomedae, and seeing a wall full of candles burning for all their paladins out on missions.
The item I liked that I haven't seen mentioned was the restraint ooze. I know magical shackles are a bit overdone, but I thought that one was pretty cool.
Oh, and of course the ghoulslayer gloves. I'm genetically obligated to like that one. :-P
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Has anybody given props to the witchfrost heart? I loved that one! That was the nasty, blood-themed item that slip your enemy up and hits him while he's down.
I thought it was really well-written, with great atmosphere, and deliciously cruel without being gonzo-gross. I thought it was an excellent entry - kudos to the author!
How many other people are waiting to see someone mention the item they made, but not mentioning it because that feels like cheating? :)
Meh, I made the cull, that counts for something.
That's pretty much exactly what I'm doing. I never saw my item and I'm starting to wonder.
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How many other people are waiting to see someone mention the item they made, but not mentioning it because that feels like cheating? :)
Meh, I made the cull, that counts for something.
Yeah, that'd be me as well. Only saw it twice in 1000 votes, once really early in and then right before I stopped voting, long after the cull. Just itching for Friday, now, and comparing my Keep list to the Top 32. Four out of my 18 made it, and several that didn't have already been praised here, so I guess my instincts weren't too far off.
How many other people are waiting to see someone mention the item they made, but not mentioning it because that feels like cheating? :)
Meh, I made the cull, that counts for something.
I'd be one of those on both accounts.
Actually, I don't think it would be cheating. More like I don't want to say it because I don't want, "Yeah, that was okay" or no response at all.
I liked the paper messenger too.