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Introducing (queue explosions, Bruce Buffer, and maybe Clarknark in a tankini holding a round card) ROUND 4 DEATHMATCH-E-E-E-S-S-S-S-S.
We're going to do this tournement style, 8 will enter 1 will win. Winners in the 1st 4 match-ups will go on to the semis, winners of the semis will face off in the finals. Champion of my deathmatch will will, well a no prize but life is journey and yada-yada...
Here's the match-ups:
The Flannel and Axe Showdown
The Lumber Consortium's Laboratory VS Wignalzik and Sons Lumber Camp
Watering Hole Throwdown
Mienka’s Cauldron VS The Pools of Iridescence
Battle of the Judges Bubble
Feer’s Crossing VS The Vise
Church and State cagematch!
Ssel Asha - Ancient Naga Temple VS Thorn Manor
Each contestent will be judge in a 5 round 10 point must system. Generally that means a win is a 10 a loss is a 9, if the win is an epic win then it can become a 10/8 round. Ties are possible but since I'm not the UFC that will mean a sudden death round.
Round 1: Mapping- does your map look better than something I can draw (I suck.) Does it give me a clear picture of the layout of the encounter? Are there hazards and points of interest? Does it have style?
Round 2: Use of previous round monster- does the encounter highlight what was cool about your competator's monster? Did you somehow make it your own? Was the previous round monster the star or does it seem tacked on? Does the tactics used make me smile and cackle evilly as a DM of do they annoy men because I'll have to change them because my PCs are good?
Round 3: CR rating accuracy- This is hard because my PCs and when I'm Gming my player generally wipe the floor unless I go 2-3 CRs higher than the system says they can handle. I'm not asking for perfection but does your CR look in line with other PAizo products? Can I easilly adjust it to make it more challenging? What about scaling it back a little? As a GM I need encounters to have about a 2-3 CR flexability as I adjust up or down.
Round 4: Plot- Does your encounter tell a good story or lead to a good story? Is the background engaging and well written? Does the reader get inspired to add to this, or build on it, or steal it for something else?
Round 5: Fun- Plain and simple would I like to run or play this? Does this mix the familiar with the new in a way that makes me excited about what you've done.
Sudden Death: In the case of a tie I will look at your previous rounds work side by side decide who won each round and make the decision based on that.
Why this format? At this point all the designer's have talent, the question is no longer who can fit the freelancer role, its who's the best amung a strong group of competitors. In my opinion the best method of evaluating the round is by direct comparision.
The Flannel and Axe Showdown
The Lumber Consortium's Laboratory VS Wignalzik and Sons Lumber Camp
In this corner we have a designer that made: the gloves that deserved the most love, the alchemical blaster of underwater disaster, and the ooze that mixes well with booze: From Berkley California, and weighing in with his Lumber Consortium Laboratory, Michael Pruess
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In this corner we have the designing man: who made the top 32 with a spell-in-a-can, who proved it wasn't luck with a Huck...ster, who showed us he was the man with the caliban! From Davis California, and weighing in with his Wignalzik and Sons Lumber camp, Nicholas Herold!
Round 1: Michael comes out swinging flurries and combinations with elements like good contrast, and clearer use of space, a better map legend, typed rather than scawled written word, and his combo finisher the clever and intellegent use of terrain and harards as opposed to carte-blanche usage of rough terrain! Nicholas actually gets kocked down but is up and saved by the bell.
10/8 Michael's favor.
Round 2: There's something different in Nocholas' eyes this round, theres a hunger this time and he comes out swinging. Unfortunately so does his opponent this is allot more back and forth. Both use 2 monsters, both use intellegent tactics, Michael has a momentary advantage with not having another big monster and follows up with a rolling ball of poop trap, but Nocholas hammers back with a villian likely to escape and the better location monster usage symatry and the more adaptable critters. Michael wins this round however becasue at the end of the day the drakes are the star of the encounter while with Nicholas its all abount the ent.
10/9 Michael's favor
Round 3: Nicholas opens the round with a flying knee that barely misses Michael's chin but rams his shoulder and knocks him down. Nicholas has 2 CR4 critters = CR5 a CR 8 critter and a 2 CR4 traps. Add in the terrain and tactics I'd call CR10 accurate within 1 degree erring on the high side (which is my preference.) I can easilly increase or decrease this by adding or taking away critters adding the advanced template and what-not. Michael on the other hand has killed a 3d Drake making me hesitant to addd another critter because I'd worry about back sotory issues and they are poorly fed slave critters which makes them easy to drop but not easy to say add the advanced template or class levels to. I also think the trap can be more flexable then the designer thinks (move sticks can rotate I'd think) and more powerful than considered.
10/9 Nicholas' favor.
Round 4: Michael comes out with a strong fighting stance, he's confident in his weapons this round with both a lumber consortium in the background and an alchemist. Unfortunately for Michael Nicholas is packing a spiteful gnome and his demon patron, who apperently wants to give me the excuse to pull monsters from different habitats to throw at the PCs. Its a deadly overhand right that clearly wins the round, just not enough for that 10/8.
10/9 Nicholas' favor.
Round 5: Michael looks for the early advantage here with the clearly cooler monster from the previous round and the nifty poop, stick and stone trap! A Treat that animates trees backed by ranged monkey men wouldn't be enough without a key factor, irony! Its a lumber camp that beats on you with threes and branches! Nicholas wins this round for me. Both sound like fun encounters but I have trouble getting past the setting for Michael's I just don't see a lightless cavern growing trees.
10/9 Nicholas' favor.
Looking at the scorecard...
47/47 We're going to sudden death!
Round 6: Let's look at the previous contest rounds for our tie breaker!
R1: Treefrog gloves vs Gorget of living whispers
For me the Gloves were just better. Gorget was cool but still SIAC for me.
R2: Outsea Delver vs Huckster
Again clear choice here, this time in Nicholas favor, huckster was the bomb.
R3: Egelsee Cocktail vs Caliban is a really close choice. At the end of the day I like the fact that one is a race and therefore I can develope a wider array of plotlines with it while the other is an ooze that makes me look up rules I'd prefer not to. Nicholas takes this and the contest
I'm raising Nicholas' hand for a close battle well fought
Watering Hole Throwdown
Mienka’s Cauldron VS The Pools of Iridescence
In this corner we have the clean designer that created seer's soap, and hit us over the head for our own good with his everbloom monk, and used pollen to grow a place in our hearts with his blackwood drake. From Chicopee MA and weighing in with his Mienka's Cauldron, Matt "the hammerfist" Duval!
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In this corner the designing forecater of disaster, wearer of the Verdant crown of oak and iron, and cornered by the yellow tongued hulk. From Allen Park, MI and weighing in with his Pools of Iridenscence, Scott "the Vroc" Fernandez!
Round 1: Both men start out tentitive and circling. Each seem to neutralize the other's weapons for the majority of the round, both use color effectively boith have a meh fort like structure, both clearly mixed handdrawn and computerized elements, and one has a better map key scaled too small to read while the other has a map key that falls short of IDing everything. End of the round The Hammerfist takes it as it's just plain easier to understand and picture where everything is by his map, while The Vroc leaves me with a few unanswered questions.
10/9 Matt's favor.
Round 2: Another close round fo 2 designers feeling eachother out for weaknesses. Matt jabs away with oozes moving floor to floor because ooze, right! Dig the mist and the haunt, not as into the traps they are weak point. Scott the horror of the cocktail filling an iron maiden makes what you're doing here really cool. I dig the mephits as well but throwing a sorc in the mix tends to draw the PCs focus and fire, which is your weak point. Winning facotr here is that the PCs can win and lose at the same time by failing to protect an NPC "football" which is a favorite trick of mine!
10/9 Scott's favor
Round 3: Both seem to hit the target here and that means some good shots are traded. MAtt has a slight edge here because I can tailor his encounter a little easier by just adding templates. Scotts have more creatures which makes it easy to remove one or two but that's only so effective and adding more just makes a mess. Templating some but not others kinks up the works on making adjustments.
10/9 Matt's favor
Round 4: Both designers are a bit bruised by the match thus far but while that seems to be wearing Matt down Scott seems to be powering up. Flurry after flurry of combinations from excellent backstory and memorable encounter elements to using seers soap and dumping the football in the water! Matt just can't fight back effectively with another lost kingdom broken dreats Riverlands story. Scott may have used a ka-may-ha-mey-ha wave here!
10/8 Scotts favor
Round 5: Matt gamely comes out of his corner this round, his traps are fun but what's this Scott seems to have found the golden glow. Mephits, a drugged out sorc, and a hostage make this GM greedy for more, more, more! Both of these entries are really good, Scott's is just more superstar for me.
10/8scotts favor
Final score 48/45- Scott "the vroc" Fernanderez
My suspicion is both will advance in the real contest but I matched things that seems to have some common design elements by memory from my first quick read thru.
Battle of the Judges Bubble
Feer’s Crossing VS The Vise
I-I-I-T-T-'S-S-S T-I-I-M-M-M-M-E-E
(This is kind of the inspiration for the thread so it'd be considered main event. These 2 split the judges lets see who wins the Deathmatch!)
In this corner, this man is responsible for reigns of unstoppable stride, water-born votery, and leechroot and has accumulated a superstar record of 24 wins and 0 losses, coming from São Paulo, Brazil, and weighing in with Feer's Crossing Pedro "Arm-bar" Coelho!
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In this corner, this man has also accumulated a 24-0 record and has been responsible for the bloodroot vine, the Uringen Assayer and The walking Stick of Thaumiturgy, coming from Chapel Hill, NC, and weighing in with the Vise Michael "the manbearpig" Eshleman!
Round 1: Pedro's trying to finish this early with an outstanging map that looks like a professional product. I'd hire this guy to do maps in a heartbeat, that's just pretty. Michael would hold up against most any other map but is just hammered with this piece of awesome-sauce.
10/8Pedro's favor
Round 2: Cocktails anyone? Can't get more critical than this match as we are looking at the same monster, so who did it better? I'm unapoligettically biased here, and its not going to favor Michael. I am not a fan of mixing tech and fantasy settings. That said both have "sins against the monster." Pedro's cocktails are just a part of a bigger fight. I feel like you could have the same fight and sub in just about any round three monster, yes it would effect the backstory but not inexorably. Michael's is a trap that deliver's a monster and there's enough to dig there. Try to get away and a robot with a mancatcher shoves you right back in.
10/9 Michael's favor.
Round 3: Pretty much Pedro throws the kitchen sink at the PCs which is hard to balance and adjust up or down. Michael's is easier to manipulate to your needs because you can just up the power of the bots, swap out beggars for someone with class levels, add more traps and cocktails. ITs just an easier design for a DM to play with.
10/9 Michael's favor.
Round 4: Boils down to a drug den VS a critical river's crossing fort that's practically a trope. HEre's the deal its a trope for a reason, I gotta go with PEdro here, theme is hurting me for Michael, I don't want to deal with robots and I really don't want the what do we do with the drug addicts conversation in character. There's already a game world with those themes, if I want that kind of game I'll play a white wolf product.
10/9 Pedro's favor
Round 5: I'm with Clark ho hum location but sweet encounter. I understand what Wolf liked but I'm with Clark and Sean on this one.
10/9 Pedro's favor
Overall: 48/46 Pedro's hand gets raised in victory.
That map was off the chain!
Church and State cagematch!
Ssel Asha - Ancient Naga Temple VS Thorn Manor
In this corner, this designer is responsible for the the quicksand cloak, the floodwalker, and the dead fall dweller. Some have called him the dark horse with no remorse hailing from Tulsa Ok, weighing in with his Ancient Naga Temple, Steven "the blackbelt" Helt!
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In this corner, the mind that brought forth the cobra hooded cloak, the skinchanger witch and the thoughstealer ooze. Some have called him the contender to remember, hailing from Huntsville AL,and weighing in with his thorn manor, Clay "Seize the Day" Blankenship.
Round 1: Ok tough love time both of these are flawed. Clay I need the squares to provide scal a little clearer/darker to work with your map. Steve, you show some solid promise with your icons but the underground tunnel bit just looks sloppy. Slight advantage Clay.
10/9 Clay's favor
Round 2: Both of you spinned the monsters a bit, Steve added some power by giving his leech roots the advanced template Clay used equipment which is clever. Win goes to Clay because his monster is more of a character which makes it the star of this.
10/9 Clay's favor.
Round 3: Ok so we are now looking at the flexability of what you guys turned in. Here' where restraint is key, Clay you just have too many combatants to play around with the CR of the encounter. I can remove soem but all I have to do with Steves is adjust the DC of the trap, or throw in a couple more monsters like say a mimic. Less is more.
10/9[b] advantage Steve.
Round 4: Ok Steve's changing the pace fo the "fight" at this point. Here's where the murderous apprentice concept hurts because I want to fight this bigger's master! You left no room for that, Steve has a lich I need to kill or at least a cult to mess with.
[b]10/9 advantage Steve.
Round 5: Steve's going to get you with a big combo here Clay. Its a shame you showed me so much promise but this is a 4hr session at best Steven gave me leads that can make a leg of a campaign and that's just more Superstar. You show some real potential even in this round and your prior work might carry you past this but you missed something here. Some treasure, some secret way to enhance the caliban apprentice more, maybe the master is reawakened a flesh golem when lightning strikes the apperatus? Something fell short.
10/9 advantage Steve.
Overall: 48/47 Steve's hand gets raised in a hard fought battle. Both of you deserve respect this one had allot of close rounds that could have gone either way but I stand by my choices.
Tomorrow we'll do the Semi Finals: Going odds vs evens form previous rounds so ANNOUNCING...
Nicholas "Quickdraw" Herold VS Pedro "Arm-bar" Coelho
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Scott "the Vroc" Fernandez VS Steven "the blackbelt" Helt
Who will Win!
Couldn't wait...
Nicholas "Quickdraw" Herold VS Pedro "Arm-bar" Coelho
Round 1: Pedro pulls guard reverses and runs a BJJ clinic on Quickdraw culminating in an armbar at the bell. Nicholas failed against a lesser map, Pedro owns the map round...
10/8 Pedro's favor
Round 2: This is a tentative round of circling as this is a flawed round for both men. Nicholas gave us a bigger badder creature than the agropelters while Pedro gave us a small army to deal with. Nicholas at least had only 1 distraction.
10/9 Nicholas' favor
Round 3: Balance and give favors the lower number of creatures agin this is a point I've repeated.
10/9 Nicholas' favor
Round 4: Again I can do a whole campaign on Nicholas' work, Pedro's is good but less exciting for me. There's an army on the way sure but Pedro's also feels a little off for the River kingdoms for me which I believe is the space he chose. All in all this fights swinging around to Nicholas.
10/9 Nicholas' favor
Round 5: Pedro gives me a great fight with a half fiend minotaur, a wizard and the rest of the kitchen sink. His encounter jsut seems more fun dammit. to those keeping score here we go again!
10/9 Pedro's favor
Overall: 47/47 Sudden Death!
Round 6: Lets looks at the previous rounds for our tiebreaker.
R1- Gorget of Living Whispers VS Reigns of unstoppable stride, gotta go Gorget its just better. Nicholas.
R2- Huckster VS Votery, huckster takes it. Nicholas
R3- meaningless but its a sweep Caliban beats Leechroot for me.
Nicholas gets his hand raised after sudden death once more!
Scott "the Vroc" Fernandez VS Steven "the blackbelt" Helt
Round 1: Scott was in a close round last series because both maps were good, Steven was in a close round 1 last time because both maps weren't real great. No surprises here.
10/9 Scott's favor
Round 2: Again Scott's use of the cocktail in a terrifying manner makes it a memorable encounter, while the leechroots just aren't as cool as the trap and columns for me.
10/9 Scott's favor
Round 3: Steve's design is more adjustment friendly than Scotts it a number of critter's thing.
10/9 Steve's favor
Round 4: I mentioned my love of a hostage situation, while steve offers a lich down the road, upping the threat down by throwing the hostage in the water just raises the stakes. Steve's encounter is a memorable stop on a journey, Scott's is a destination.
10/9 Scott's favor
Round 5: The trap is extremely fun, the columns, the leechroot its all right there Steve and if there was a sudden death round you'd win 2/3 but the fact of the matter is Scott wins the round. Mephits are awesome, the steam pipe is great, and the escalating use of the "football" can't be denied.
10/9 Scott's favor
Scott's hand gets raised, after a workman like effort of constant pressure
Steve, chin up you're still awesome-sauce!
Tomorrow (for real this time)
Scott "the Vroc" Fernandez VS Nicholas "Quickdraw" Herold
Final showdown!
Might take requests for redemption battles!
Scott "the Vroc" Fernandez VS Nicholas "Quickdraw" Herold
The lights dim and even the roar of the crowd is momentarily subdued. An energy crackels throughout the arena as the moment everyone has waited for is about to arrive.
Suddenly spotlights strobe around the arena and the opening notes of Enter Sandman are drowned out bt the roar of the crowd. Nicholas "Quickdraw" Herod walks out escorted by an an angry looking Caliban, who while small somehow conveys enough menace to keep the crowd respectful. After a few moments Nicholas is in his corner warming up. The lights dim again.
Music starts claring out again but this time the crowd gets quiet as a hauntingly familiar voice rings out "Give me time... to realize my crime." The crowd goes berserk when the song gets to the chorus "Do you really want to hurt me" His yellowtongue hulk escorts release enchanted frog swarms on the crowd that turn into candy when touched.
The announcer grab the might once the fighters have settled and say "alright enough fluff, FIGHT!"
Round 1: Nicholas hasn't won in a maping round yet, this is not going to change in the finals. Scott comes out swinging for the fences but Nicholas' chin seems to hold up to the damage.
10/9 Scott's favor.
Round 2: Overall scott owns this with that creepy iron maiden, everytime I reread that entry I love it a little more. Spinnign backfist staggers Nicholas back, but somehoiw Nicholas endures the round and gets a big pep talk in his corner.
10/9 Scott's favor.
Round 3: Nicholas finally gets Scott's tming down starts unloading bombs. Ease and flexibility of CR set up becaus eof low number of creatures is one of the key strengths of Nicholas' design for me.
10/9 Nicholas' favor
Round 4: Sensing a change in the pace of the fight Nicholas goes in for a takedown at percisely the wrong moment and takes a flying knee to the chin. KO
But seriously Scott owns the next 2 rounds hard. Nicholas' design is solid and if it gets to a tie his prior work contained some of my foavorites. Scott however has the best encounter and 2nd best in the monster round. Nicholas if he gets to the next round has a solid chance of winning this but Scott has picked up some serious momentum.
Scott's hand gets raised, scott owns the strap for round 4!
Round by round rankings
Disclaimer- please do not be offended by the rankings guys you all did really great but this is a competition and sometimes its just a matter of other's did it better. If you want more specific feedback I'm happy to answer and PMs
Round 1)
1) Pedro
2) Matt
3) Michael P
4) Scott
5) Michael E
6) Clay
7) Nicholas
8) Steven
Round 2)
1) Scott
2) Clay
3) Michael P
4) Nicholas
5) Matt
6) Steven
7) Michael E
8) Pedro
Round 3)
1) Nicholas
2) Matt
3) Micheal P
4) Steve
5) Scott
6) Michael E
7) Clay
8) Pedro
Round 4)
1)Scott
2)Steve
3)Nicholas
4)Matt
5)Pedro
6)Michael P
7)Clay
8)Michael E
Round 5)
1)Pedro
2)Scott
3)Nicholas
4)Michael P
5)Steve
6)Clay
7)Matt
8)Michael E
Oh and being 1 against an 8 doesn't mean a 10/8 round some were closer than others. Round 1 was pretty much a 10/8 round for Pedro against anyone below say 3rd place. While for Fun factor Pedro would not get a 10/8 even on 8th place, that was the closest round by far.
If Pedro went agains scott they Tie, it goes to sudden death in which Scott takes rounds 1 and 3 round 2 is a toss up as neither archetype thrilled me. Nicholas pretty much wins round 6 handily against anyone with the expection of Clay who wins R1 and 2 by narrow margins.
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So was this useful? Should I have stuck with my Good, Bad, and Ugly routine? Anyone want to debate my rankings/ results of one or more of the matches? Anyone want to see Pedro v. Steven or Nicholas v. Steven?
At risk of saying too much - not supposed to comment on such things before voting closes? - this was immensely entertaining :)
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@ Michael P.
Thanks for saying so. I just wanted to try something different and pay a slight omage to a favorite youtube series and old school MTV show.
I also thought the 10 point must system would be interesting to play out in this venue. I also had a little fun with the nicknames and for the last one the walkout songs. (I've qalways wanted to see a fighter come out to "do you really want to hurt me" that would just be epic.)
I was slightly concerned I'd offend someone in the competition but at the end of the day feedback makes you stronger. I think every round has gotten harder to judge.
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OK its a few days later and I looked thru all the encounters again deciding on which one I want to bring to table as a 1 off for my boys and oddly enough I'm picking between Nicholas and Michael P. I might have misjudged the rankings in particular round 5 in their match.
Its that rolling ball of poo and sticks that makes it stand out. Here we have a pair of creatures exploited and held away from a world of light and natural beauty and placed in a cave and taught to respect and fear their captors. Their wings aren't clipped, they could probably escape, but they are in the only home they have ever known and they defend it and the people known to them. It makes them more real for me than allot of other characters, the drakes are almost human. The trap set up is fantastic!
What hurts the entry is the incongruities in the backstory. Its just not as well reasoned as it could be. I can cut the location out put the "cave" on the rooftops of say a dessert setting and make this a huge greenhouse at the apex of say a pyramid or palace in a dessert setting. An evil alchemist serving a pasha with a hanging gardens of Babylon vibe would add something ot this.
So Mike P would have beaten Nicholas (47/48) then against Pedro (R1 10/9 pedro, R2 10/9 Mike P, R3 10/9 Mike P, R4 10/9 Pedro, R5 10/9 Pedro) you'd lose. Pedro would meet Scott in the final (R1 10/8 Pedro, R2 10/9 scott, R3 10/9 Scott, R4 10/9 scott, R5 10/9 Pedro for 47/47 sudden death favors Scott for clear wins in R1, and R3 and maybe a tie in R2)
Back to Mike P's encounter this is sooo close, I feel like I could have edited you into a top 4 slam dunk submission... You still might make it I think people will come around on it despite the judges opinion. If you don't make it and want to join in my 3PP start-up project frickin' PM me dude I'll throw you my pitch see if you want to get involved...
Interesting looks like the "Death matches" called 3 of the top 4, only one missed was Matt due to being against another top 4 in the first round!
Should have said earlier, but I enjoyed the WWF feel to your narrative :)
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I personally think that you dinged me unfairly by giving so much weight to Pedro's map (after all making a finished map wasn't one of the round's criteria) but seeing as how I didn't advance to the top four I can't really complain too loudly. :)
I personally think that you dinged me unfairly by giving so much weight to Pedro's map (after all making a finished map wasn't one of the round's criteria) but seeing as how I didn't advance to the top four I can't really complain too loudly. :)
Honestly that map made Pedro stand out. I get that it may well be more program than his actual ability, but an easy to read visually appealing map is a serious advantage. Yours was on the bubble of being good but the use of color actually added some confusion for me.
Your encounter wasn't bad at all, its just your competition teneded to fall more within my gaming astetics. If anything's unfair its that theres more than a few old coggers like me that don't like gearsmen, androids, and gunslingers in our gameworlds.
I actually really tried to ignore that impluse when looking at your encounter, but throw in a drug den and you break a wall between the real and fantasy world I don't want broken.
You were the one I was concerned about offending a little. I'm blunt, but I also truly think criticism makes us better.
I get that it may well be more program than his actual ability [...]
Well, I did it using Photoshop, so what you see is mostly my work, and not some templated images. I didn`t actually paint the illustration, though; it is basically all photo compositing. ;)
In that case you deserved the advantage. That map is publishable quality and I'm sure it got some attention from 3PPs.
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I actually really tried to ignore that impluse when looking at your encounter, but throw in a drug den and you break a wall between the real and fantasy world I don't want broken.
It has been a while since I read Conan, but I'm pretty sure there was a lot of that sort of thing in there...
You were the one I was concerned about offending a little. I'm blunt, but I also truly think criticism makes us better.
I'm not offended. Heck, I realize that not everybody is going to like everything that I put out there. That's just life.
Honestly that map made Pedro stand out. I get that it may well be more program than his actual ability, but an easy to read visually appealing map is a serious advantage.
A note on making good maps: learning how to make a nice map with a mapping editor is at least as hard as making a nice map by hand, or any other method. Yes, his map looked a lot better after all is done because rather than pencils he used professionally illustrated tiles - but let's not think less of his mapping ability just because he used a better tool for the job.
Yes, it's not really possible to tell if he could have produced a map that was just as nice if all he used was pencils and markers, but that's the same criticism that could be applied to any professional using any tool.
I say, Pedro, awesome job.
EDIT: I missed that he used photoshop instead of a proper map editor, but my argument in defense of 'it's impressive either way' still stands. ;)
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I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve credit for the map. Its about 10,000 times better than what I could do. But it wasn't one of the round's criteria to make a professional looking map and I will admit to being a bit irritated that it weighed so heavily in his favor. Nevertheless, what's done is done and I wish him all the best in the final round.
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I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve credit for the map. Its about 10,000 times better than what I could do. But it wasn't one of the round's criteria to make a professional looking map and I will admit to being a bit irritated that it weighed so heavily in his favor. Nevertheless, what's done is done and I wish him all the best in the final round.
On my end the criteria I set for the matches was for entertainment purposes but I'd propose that anytime you are offered a chance to put together a visual its going to weigh heavily in an open vote no matter what the criteria. People will vote for the pretty shiny things and that's just the truth.