I've just seen another item that seems like it would have disastrous effects if sundered. It won't stop me from upvoting it, but it makes my inner GM have Sith-y thoughts.
So far I've seen 23 DQ-able items!Of course, a few had multiple violations. And no, joke items aren't DQable...
- 2 IP violations (Google)
- 9 wrong type of item for the contest
- 8 missing templates
- 4 over word count if they used proper grammar/template
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Incorrect templating is fully DQ'able? I assume that's beyond just "You didn't use any of the [b] tags despite the copy and pastable template having them" and straight to "you didn't even try to format at all"
And hey man, I fully believe that sometimes a joke item can actually be great, if the joke is good and the effect is interesting.
an item that is better for one class that actually makes sense. Well done.
Not using the template is not a DQable offense as far as I can tell.
Ugh and reading this thread I have yet to see anything that makes me go "I think they found mine!" It's one thing to have created a bad item that makes people groan, another to have made one that's somehow so middle of the road that nobody cares.
[e] I know mine's been seen at least, as it's showed up in that Google Document. It's just that I don't think anyone's either been impressed OR offended by it enough to comment.
Pretty sure I saw my item being viciously mocked by another poster yesterday, followed by others expressing agreement. Guess it wasn't their cup of tea.
Still waiting to see it pop up on the Google Doc, though. Hopefully it hasn't been DQ'd!
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Incorrect templating is fully DQ'able? I assume that's beyond just "You didn't use any of the [b] tags despite the copy and pastable template having them" and straight to "you didn't even try to format at all"
Submission does not conform to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
The template for the item is what makes it conform to PF, without it the item could be for any system.
And hey man, I fully believe that sometimes a joke item can actually be great, if the joke is good and the effect is interesting.
I was referring to the fact many view such items as a DQ. I don't. One I know is a joke is actually on my list of will use in home game items, but not my Top 32 list.
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Not using the template is not a DQable offense, but it does cut into your odds of moving on. If no attempt at a template was made whatsoever, that may qualify.
Mistakes in the template is not an issue at all.
Remember: nobody wants to be DeathQuakered! (She fights dirty!) ;)
...and for the DeathQuaker crack I just had to vote for an item I swore I would never vote up because the opposing item was just far too hokey!
Damn Karma!
Wow, that's two items that allow the transferring of racial or class features from one character to another :|
I dunno about you guys but I'm really not a fan of that sort of thing. To me it seems weirdly metagame-y, like... "hey fighter you're good at cutting things in half, if you put this funny hat on I can gain your good at cutting things in half skill!"
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Not using the template is not a DQable offense, but it does cut into your odds of moving on. If no attempt at a template was made whatsoever, that may qualify.
I meant items with no aura, CL, slot, price, weight, requirements, and cost.
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Not using the template is not a DQable offense, but it does cut into your odds of moving on. If no attempt at a template was made whatsoever, that may qualify.I meant items with no aura, CL, slot, price, weight, requirements, and cost.
I agree completely. No-attempt-whatsoever should be given the heave-ho.
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"This Thing is a Thing, except that it doesn't do the stuff a Thing does, like you'd expect. It does this instead, which isn't very much like a Thing at all, but for sake of argument, let's keep calling it a Thing."
Pretty sure I saw my item being viciously mocked by another poster yesterday, followed by others expressing agreement. Guess it wasn't their cup of tea.Still waiting to see it pop up on the Google Doc, though. Hopefully it hasn't been DQ'd!
Don't take it personal, I've had to eat 1 and 2 star reviews that were mostly nit picking an minutia. You learn form those, fix your errors and try to do better next time.
Don't lose heart
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Pretty sure I saw my item being viciously mocked by another poster yesterday, followed by others expressing agreement. Guess it wasn't their cup of tea.
Still waiting to see it pop up on the Google Doc, though. Hopefully it hasn't been DQ'd!
I saw one comment that, if it was really my item, meant that every time they saw it they would downvote it no matter the other item.
That aside, unless you broke one of the contest rules, you shouldn't worry about it being DQ. If it doesn't get out of the bottom 25% it won't make the cull that's supposedly coming, but I've seen some really crap stuff, so I think even I have a chance of getting past that.
So many misspellings of common PF things! Mithil, warg, etc...
I blame eating too much weirwood paste.
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Another polearm, sweet!
So I was having a thought regarding mechanics. The damage of a bludgeoning weapon is due to the impact. The force of impact has a lot to do with weight. So when you make a bludgeoning weapon out of mithral (which halves the weight of the item) it would seem like you're acting against your own best interests, since your heavy mace now weighs less than a light mace...
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I friggin' swear, I am hereby downvoting every item that has "enervation" in the construction requirements when the item itself does not display anything related to enervation whatsoever. It's like they just said, "I feel like throwing enervation into this because necromancy!! Woo, Necromany!!"
Just sayin'
Weird. There's an item whose name is one of the ones I considered and rejected for my own item.
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Finally found my item. It was up against a pretty good one too.
I'm starting to think that weapons are the hardest category since most of the ones I have seen are either "Wondrous Item Which Can Also Stab You I Guess" or "Ultimate Weapon of Defeating Everyone All the Time and Getting All the Points!"
A lot of jester-themed items this year. Some of them are pretty good, too.
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Today I Google-learned about different types of rock listed in an item description.
Oh, hey, found both of this year's equivalent of the Orc Torcs. Separate but identical named items. Happened within a few votes of one another or I might not have even noticed. Now I can only hope they'll have a faceoff somewhere down the line...
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No more votes for items with PC/NPC names in the title or the body!
What will you do when BOTH item's have them?
I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.No more votes for items with PC/NPC names in the title or the body!
I couldn't go that far. Especially if said item was paired up against something worse.
Speaking of those types of items, you should check out what I wrote up last night in the Joke Items thread.
been voting for two days straight almost, I am starting to recognize and remember 75% of the items I am seeing, guess its time to spend 45 seconds of my voting time eating chips or what not....
Man, I think this item's effect is cool, but it's 100% clear that it used to be a wondrous item that became a ring at the last minute :\
Originality vs. functionality and design...the eternal battle...Like GI Joe and Cobra...
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Also, Ive voted well over 100 times. Wheres my star voter tag?
It only appears on your primary account, not alternates.
ok, yeah, endless paladin swords for the shiny metal demon food, oh, sorry, I mean hero's. Hey, what if we don't play or LIKE paladins because they are mostly judgmental zealots.....
snake armor vs. snake armor.....can i call animal control....
Read first item, ugh, back story. Okay, automatically stop reading that one, start oth...ugh, back story. Okay, skip back stories. First item, generic weapon with boring power; second item, generic armor with boring power. Sigh. Maybe format will save me...aargh, both formats nailed.
So, which one has the cooler backstory?
I need a shower.
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the dirt never comes off....not even with Irish Spring.....
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Ooh...item that kills you slowly when you use it, versus item that only activates if you die!
It's a two-fer!!
Q: Dull weapon that doesn't seem to work and/or is really b0rken
vs.
Creepy weapon that would give most PCs the heebie-jeebies to touch?
A: Creepy weapon is actually pretty darn cool, therefore, it gets the easy upvote.
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Oh, the pain when you absolutely need to vent about an item, but there's no way to do it without giving away exactly which item it is.
You... you...bad thing, you!
you could always hit your computer with a rolled up newspaper...wait that only punishes the innocent...
There is an item with a funny homophone typo that completely changes the meaning of the description and makes me want to make [redacted] puns/snark.