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Are you there Groetus? It's me, Quibblemuch.
Looking over these items, it occurs to me that I have been playing with exceedingly cheap GMs. In 20 years, the most expensive item any of my PCs has owned was a portable hole (20,000gp). That is not even close to the mean crafting price of the items I am seeing. Now I know, I did destroy that portable hole by putting it in a bag of holding, so maybe I don't deserve nice things, but I thought that's what you wanted, G. Anyway, could you maybe eat a few more of the expensive items so my PCs don't feel so threadbare? Thanks G., you're the best.
See you soon!
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Are you there Groetus? It's me, Quibblemuch.
Looking over these items, it occurs to me that I have been playing with exceedingly cheap GMs. In 20 years, the most expensive item any of my PCs has owned was a portable hole (20,000gp). That is not even close to the mean crafting price of the items I am seeing. Now I know, I did destroy that portable hole by putting it in a bag of holding, so maybe I don't deserve nice things, but I thought that's what you wanted, G. Anyway, could you maybe eat a few more of the expensive items so my PCs don't feel so threadbare? Thanks G., you're the best.
See you soon!
Pricing a wondrous item is always tricky. If you follow the guidelines and examples for other items you almost always wind up with something so expensive no one will buy it over the christmas tree items.
Anyone else bothered by the star trek item?
The ensign one that is clearly a joke item? Yeah it bothers me it survived the cull when 2 of my friends did not. One forgot you can not copy past a formatted item into the contest without adding the coding and his fairly cool item didn't survive. The other did a healing item that used a table, apparently that was a no no for the voters.
I still have a few friends in the hunt, as am I. Glory awaits for 32.
Well, someone likes his LEGO...
Best glove pairing ever. I guess you'd be busy preventing your hands from killing each other.
Pricing a wondrous item is always tricky. If you follow the guidelines and examples for other items you almost always wind up with something so expensive no one will buy it over the christmas tree items.Are you there Groetus? It's me, Quibblemuch.
Looking over these items, it occurs to me that I have been playing with exceedingly cheap GMs. In 20 years, the most expensive item any of my PCs has owned was a portable hole (20,000gp). That is not even close to the mean crafting price of the items I am seeing. Now I know, I did destroy that portable hole by putting it in a bag of holding, so maybe I don't deserve nice things, but I thought that's what you wanted, G. Anyway, could you maybe eat a few more of the expensive items so my PCs don't feel so threadbare? Thanks G., you're the best.
See you soon!
Granted. Yet the various source books do seem to manage a reasonably fair distribution. And the items I have liked best have tended to be lower-priced and simpler - things I could actually see using in play regularly, instead of something that I might never afford until I could already solve game problems by sheer dint of being very high level.
Some of the issue, of course, might also arise from feeling a pressure to create an "awesome" item to stand out from the competition where "awesome" is seen as a directly proportional to the numerical value attached to the item. All part of a culture of numerolatry.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
What is with all the Cat Lord items? Am I missing something?
People submitted various cat-lord's items because ring of the master cat would be automatically disqualified, both as a ring and an artifact.
had a Cake vs Candle, hey,its not my birthday
also a curtain vs window, an interior decorators dream.
Bleh, im still only a star voter. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!
I've done quite a few PM reviews now. A few common themes and issues found in nearly all of them for you to all consider and think about are...
a) Leading off with a boring power. (I have done this too, just hopefully not this year >.<)
b) Burying the cool power in the middle (neither first nor last) (Guilty as charged, too often too)
c) Trying to do too much with one item. (Yup, done this too)
d) Not thinking far enough to what could be different with this item - i.e. looking for the something special. This is different to a) in that this is referring to doing the obvious rather than showing something ingenious and new (Yup, "been there, done that" as they say) - innovation, unexpected surprises - strive for these in your item designs.
Oh each and every one who asked for a review, I can say they exhibit the necessary technical skills and attention to detail, what they need to do to shine more now is look for the special, the gonzo, the wow factor and not get hung up on technicalities (biggest culprit - ME).
Hope that's useful to a few of you.
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I've done quite a few PM reviews now. A few common themes and issues found in nearly all of them for you to all consider and think about are...
a) Leading off with a boring power. (I have done this too, just hopefully not this year >.<)
b) Burying the cool power in the middle (neither first nor last) (Guilty as charged, too often too)
c) Trying to do too much with one item. (Yup, done this too)
d) Not thinking far enough to what could be different with this item - i.e. looking for the something special. This is different to a) in that this is referring to doing the obvious rather than showing something ingenious and new (Yup, "been there, done that" as they say) - innovation, unexpected surprises - strive for these in your item designs.
Oh each and every one who asked for a review, I can say they exhibit the necessary technical skills and attention to detail, what they need to do to shine more now is look for the special, the gonzo, the wow factor and not get hung up on technicalities (biggest culprit - ME).
Hope that's useful to a few of you.
It was. Many thankies for the review.
Yes, thank you for the review, Anthony! And for all the advice you have throughout the forums!
Great idea with mediocre mechanics... Wait, again?
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I've done quite a few PM reviews now. A few common themes and issues found in nearly all of them for you to all consider and think about are...
To be clear, you haven't done a review of my item. But if you had, I'm pretty sure you'd have ended up saying most of the same things about it.
Very good advice.
I saw a least three and probably more.
I can't believe I just saw *another* new tooth item.
Im going to create a PC with a mouth full of bling that just does a cone of charm person whenever he smiles.
People submitted various cat-lord's items because ring of the master cat would be automatically disqualified, both as a ring and an artifact.
I still love the first two Gord books. I've reread them more times than I can count.
Voting for all these magical items brings me back to the days of high school. When I blew a crapload of cash (to me back then) at my local gaming store on all the volumes of the 2nd ed Encyclopedia Magica and spending hour upon hour reading the vast amount of awesome magical items that were in those books. Stuff that I would have never of thought of myself but would be so cool if my PC would have. Makes me wish Paizo would take all the good items (that didnt win the competition, but are well written nonetheless) and make a similar volume of books. Theres way too much creativeness in this competition without having it shared in a few tomes to be passed down to your gamer kids.A bunch of items from various years of RPG Superstar were included in Ultimate Equipment. It was just a small percentage of all the Top 32 items, but as far as I know, it is the only place Paizo have published any of the material from the contest, apart from the winning module obviously.
While not Paizo-published, precisely, there was the article from KQ # 16 that reprinted a selection of the top 32 items from RPGSS '10. (A number of which then went on to later publication in UE)
People submitted various cat-lord's items because ring of the master cat would be automatically disqualified, both as a ring and an artifact.I still love the first two Gord books. I've reread them more times than I can count.
Argh. I saw great channeling item but hadn't copied it to my keep folder. I hope I will see it again.
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Knot vs. Knot! A challenge worthy of Alexander the Great!
Are there three cat-lord items or more?
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Noooo!
Spell-in-a-can versus more flavorful (crypto) spell-in-a-can.
Rogues-need-not-apply item. At least it won't pickpocket party members like the real rogue.
I think it might be a bit too costly for its abilities. A bit.
GM i was referring to the other Star Trek item that does a lot of damage.
Oh, not the replicator then.
Maybe I should be writing a monster but nope, I'm voting.
857 votes since cull, 525 unique items, 25 remaining known that I have yet to see. That makes 550 items minimum.
If you have seen unique items since the cull that are not on the post cull item list on the other thread could youadd them too it maybe (or PM the person who is keeping that list with a list of items you've seen post cull that are not on it)... so that people who might be checking that list to see if their item made it through can have a load taken off their mind.
I know I have not seen my item post cull while voting, and only know it made it through the cull because of the list on that thread.
Once per day for 1d4 round it does what for what price? Meh.
That one item with name that makes me think of item I submitted for JBE contest... It wasn't accepted, BTW.