Voters' Incessant Ramble

[Victoria Jaczko]

Ew.

[Kerney]

No matter how bad the first item I read is I read the other, ocaisionally I end up voting for the first item.

Still, there have been a couple beauts.

Edit: Oh wow.

[Samuel Stone]

Hmm, the Honor system. I like the item, but I don't think that one will be too popular due to the subsystem.

[Jeff Lee]

I need to clarify my prior post. While the overall quality of writing appears to have improved, the names...ugh, the names.

[Adam Daigle]

I'm very much a fan of brevity.

Just tell me what the thing does!

:)

[Samuel Stone]

Huh, just got the same item twice. Welp, didn't vote for you the first time, won't be voting the se-

Oh.

Guess I'm voting for the repeat.

[Kiel Howell]

I just had to choose between gross or...something very not Superstar.

[Orcus Of Undeath]

Frankto wrote:

I'm noticing a definitely nonsmall number of alcohol-themed items.

That's weird, because I'm getting some pirate related items. Coincidence? I think not.

[Samuel Stone]

Hnnng, seen a lot of items that have the bold formatting on the title, where it doesn't format.

[Jeff Lee]

Oh...

Oh!

That's very, very clever. I think I may have just hit my first one destined for the Top 32. Very clever, indeed.

:)

[Feros]

Next year, I hope someone submits an Elixir of Brain Bleach. I'd vote for it in a heartbeat.

[Jeff Lee]

Well, someone received a new thesaurus for Christmas...

[Magical_Beast]

Feros wrote:

Next year, I hope someone submits an Elixir of Brain Bleach. I'd vote for it in a heartbeat.

And I will upvote the brain bleach, for sanity's sake.

[Kerney]

Want to see my item now.

[Bayleron]

Hello,

First time voter and submitter. After looking at about thirty pairings I have seen three I felt positive toward and one I have kept. As for the rest, this comes to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdhQWkTl1PQ

[Kiel Howell]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Oh...

Oh!

That's very, very clever. I think I may have just hit my first one destined for the Top 32. Very clever, indeed.

:)

Oh that's just mean putting that here...My first instinct is mash out...WHICH ONE?!

hehehehehe.

[Samuel Stone]

It has that full Caster Level flavor, but it has so few calories low a gp cost.

[Adam Daigle]

Identical wordcount pairing. Neat.

[Victoria Jaczko]

Pretty sure I saw this one on TV.

Edit: Valkur's strapping buttocks, I've seen them BOTH on TV.

[Samuel Stone]

Uh. That's an item right out of the Mythic Adventures book. Like, I thought someone was testing formatting and posted it by accident at first.

[Adam Daigle]

Heh, yeah. I saw one on that movie and another one on a late night infomercial.

[Jeff Lee]

Belladonna Blue wrote:

Pretty sure I saw this one on TV.

Was it being sold by Billy Mays?

[Jeff Lee]

Item that requires interaction with another magic item to function. Still, better than the item it was paired with.

[Orcus Of Undeath]

Samuel Stone wrote:

Hnnng, seen a lot of items that have the bold formatting on the title, where it doesn't format.

Son of a ... I just realized I did this too. Even though last year I did it correctly ... A year of blazing nine doesn't prepare you for your own folly.

[Samuel Stone]

theheadkase wrote:

Oh that's just mean putting that here...My first instinct is mash out...WHICH ONE?!

hehehehehe.

This is definitely the downside to reading this thread. I'm super curious about a lot of the comments.

[Victoria Jaczko]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Belladonna Blue wrote:

Pretty sure I saw this one on TV.

Was it being sold by Billy Mays?

Nope, it was next to the one being sold by Billy Mays.

[Jeff Lee]

Seriously? That's not a wondrous item. It's not even another item masquerading as a wondrous item. We don't have a DQ button this year, do we? Oh well. The judges will purge it.

[Covent]

Humm, just realized I react badly to any item that is basically

"Let's buff wizards! Lets get rid of wizard limitations! Yeah and lets do that for cheap too!"

I will have to watch for that and try to be more fair, but I am seeing quite a few of those.

[Adam Daigle]

A few of these could benefit from an extra '0' in the Price and Cost lines.

[Covent]

Adam Daigle wrote:

A few of these could benefit from an extra '0' in the Price and Cost lines.

*Nod*

*Cough*

or perhaps an artifact tag...

[Orcus Of Undeath]

Oh dear ... I just saw an item with an apology about the format in it.

[Jeff Lee]

Aha! There's the attunement. I've been missing all the attuning from last year.

[Samuel Stone]

Hmm, both items are kinda dull, but the vote has to go to the one that doesn't break the game.

[Kamai]

Hmm, you know what's a great idea? Let's look at the old competitions, or the magic item section, file off a description, add our own, then call it our item. That's Superstar material, right? Right?

[Cthulhudrew]

Adam Daigle wrote:

Some folks are really eager to have their character be dead (or deadlike).

Yes, I noticed this too.

Saw my first camping item, and saw one with a joke name. Fortunately, design/mechanically speaking it was otherwise good, and better than its pair.

[Jeff Lee]

theheadkase wrote:

Jeff Lee wrote:

Oh...

Oh!

That's very, very clever. I think I may have just hit my first one destined for the Top 32. Very clever, indeed.

:)

Oh that's just mean putting that here...My first instinct is mash out...WHICH ONE?!

hehehehehe.

Well, it can't all be bad news in here, can it? Some of these have to be good, right?

[Samuel Stone]

I just saw one that said you needed GM permission to use it. I kinda liked the item, but that line really seemed unnecessary to me.

[N. Edward Lange]

crap... this year went by so fast i didn't realize i missed the chance to submit an item until i saw this thread :(

[Jeff Lee]

Orcus Of Undeath wrote:

Oh dear ... I just saw an item with an apology about the format in it.

Apparently the creator of this item said "Formatting? We don't need no stinkin' formatting!"

[Samuel Stone]

GAH, I want to vote for this item, but the formatting is so off that it shows a complete lack of rule-reading.

[Covent]

Just found my first solid Keep.

It is what I feel is solid middle of the pack for superstar material.

It's nice to run across something like that.

[Pillbug Toenibbler]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Belladonna Blue wrote:

Pretty sure I saw this one on TV.

Was it being sold by Billy Mays?

Yay! My shamwow of contact high! w00t! (Definitely not my actual submitted item.)

[Cthulhudrew]

More joke names. The concept has to be really good to make me not pass on these; it's such a first strike against them.

Or the competition has to be really bad.

(I don't use the equal button.)

[Samuel Stone]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Seriously? That's not a wondrous item. It's not even another item masquerading as a wondrous item. We don't have a DQ button this year, do we? Oh well. The judges will purge it.

At least the one I just saw was arms/armor.

[Jesse Southwick]

There have been some brutal run on sentences...

[Magical_Beast]

Three so far...clearly NOT wondrous items.

A little filigree, some attunement, complete disregard for game balance...ah, I remember this feeling from last year.

[Samuel Stone]

Ah, hiya, Hunger Games.

[Cthulhudrew]

And I just got one where the author doesn't seem to be quite sure of the name of his item. Hm.

(Which is too bad, actually. I kind of like the concept, but it also has some formatting issues.)

[Covent]

And another keep nice!

Followed immediately by a magic the gathering card and a world of warcraft reference... *sigh*

[Jeff Lee]

Second year in a row: Someone misspelled the name of their item in the title line.

Argh, and another item that's not a wondrous item. Competing in a contest when you don't know the rules is NOT Superstar. It is an 's' word, however.