Snark Powers activate

[Jeff Lee]

Verbing noun vs. verbing noun!

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Go, verbing noun!

[Aaron Miller 335]

Jeff Hazuka wrote:

If your item is a strict improvement to an existing weapon property, it shouldn't be cheaper.

You see "that's" the improvement!

[Aaron Miller 335]

For the few chances I may ever need that,I will buy a damn scroll!

[Omnitricks]

Thunderfrog wrote:

How long does the bird on my head stay alive? Do I have to feed it?

Kemosabe?

[Aaron Miller 335]

Thats a new spin on the yearly soup entries.

[Aaron Miller 335]

I first read that as pain not paint, I was like no not another s&m item.

[Brigg]

Go back to the socket you came from!! *Hiss*

[Nickolas Floyd]

Wow. That isn't even the right formatting. How is it you were not culled? It is not even a totally original idea.

[Mike Franke]

I keep running into an item that reminds me of KISS, and not awesome in paint 70's KISS but 80s' day-glo lime green and lavender KISS. How are you still here?

[Pyrrhic Victory]

Spinning shields sure are a thing this year.

[Thunderfrog]

This item is in the running for the most OP this year.

Named Bullet doesn't only enchant bullets. I may be reading you wrong, but if that's the case, you weren't clear enough!

[Pyrrhic Victory]

When held the red shaft erupts...NOOOOOOOO!

[James Jacobs' Dream Date]

Pyrrhic Victory wrote:

When held the red shaft erupts...NOOOOOOOO!

Tell me more, Tell me more, was it love at first sight?

Tell me more, Tell me more, did he put up a fight?

[He'sDeadJim]

Ok I don't usually snark, but I gotta say:

Would a PC or NPC actually USE it in a Pathfinder game? Definitely a question some people should have asked themselves.

[The Raven Black]

My item again :-)

Against a so-so item again :-/

I feel the 32 slipping from my fingers. Keeping hope though.

[The Raven Black]

And now a workshopped item ;-)

And better than the opposition by far. Upvoted :-)

[The Raven Black]

And a Keep item vs boring monstrous abilities in a can. Upvoted

[Kim Frandsen]

Why would you create an armor that enhance the abilities of a class that can't use that type of armor as standard?

[Dana Huber]

I think I just saw the same one as you, Curtisin.

[Dana Huber]

*squints at item* Youu arreee... an imaginative, interesting item that would really throw a combat into chaos in a way that I'd like to play with. In fact, I'm already itching to deploy this as a GM, just to watch my players go 'whaaa?'

That's a good thing.

On the other side of things.... I think your designer is not a native English speaker. Or s/he didn't proofread at all. Both of those are bad things for you in terms of this contest (seriously, people, if English is not your first language, ask for an editor on the boards before you submit! People will be glad to help you out. Heck, I would be glad to help you out.) Also, you've got a few nitpicky formatting errors, and your last sentence weakened the innately cool concept a bit, I admit.

Your competition is perfectly formatted, has a great-if-gross visual, and has been upvoted by me several times for essentially doing everything well enough. But it doesn't spur me to that same slow grin of "aw man I wanna use that."

*places chin on hands* Choices, choices.

[Dana Huber]

Ha! I upvoted 'interesting but flawed' from my previous pair, after reservations, and got item B in my next pairing, against something that's really terribly written, so item B is an easy upvote. Which makes me feel good! It's like I got to upvote both items I liked!

[John Lynch 106]

GM_Solspiral wrote:

Okay boys and girls it's time for another mini rant on game design. This time the topic is visuals...

-An item that has awesome effects but makes my character look like he's auditioning for the Village people will not beat out another item that has good mechanics and doesn't make me look like I'm going to cover Macho-Macho Man.

Clearly our tastes differ on this front.

[Dana Huber]

Woah. Now that's how you do an item description. Not sure I'll vote for the item itself, but the description knocked my socks off.

[The Raven Black]

If the spell you mention in your description is not really well-known and you do not describe its effects, you'd better provide me with a link :-/

[The Raven Black]

That is a great innovative concept and it is done rather well, even if it could be a bit more concise. Weak Keep and upvoted ;-P

[Dana Huber]

Ugh, I jinxed myself. I posted in the praise thread with the high quality of all the items I'm seeing now...

....so I get these two. *glares*

[Kim Frandsen]

Roar vs. Roar.

Roar wins.

[The Raven Black]

Despicable item again. Downvoted again :-(

[The Raven Black]

Truth vs Innuendo. Interesting pairing ;-)

[John Lynch 106]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

[The Raven Black]

At least that other item has a single focus. The soothing candelabra (not an actual item AFAIK) that casts calm emotion as a continuous effect AND fireball once per day does not.

[The Raven Black]

YET ANOTHER FILIGREE !!!

[The Raven Black]

The Raven Black wrote:

And a Keep item vs boring monstrous abilities in a can. Upvoted

And the same again. Always a pleasure to upvote you :-)

[The Raven Black]

Why would I pay this much for such a niche ability ?

[The Raven Black]

You are no Superstar, but I would like to throw you at my players. Keep :-)

[Omnitricks]

Wow they keep throwing at me items which are similar in type. Thank god the effects are different or Imma flip the table.

[Mikko Kallio]

Wall of text vs item that is divided up in bite-sized paragraphs. Paragraphs win. (And it was a much better item in other ways, too.)

[The Raven Black]

Fun item that could spice things up in a game. Keep :-)

[The Raven Black]

Why the fascination for writing implements (quills, inks, books) ? It's an adventurer's game, damnit. Not a bookworm's one ;-P

[The Raven Black]

Upvoted but you could have had a far better chance at superstar without that last ability :-/

[Omnitricks]

Why so much expensive consumables? I can't brain...

[The Raven Black]

Referring to other items (or variants) in your item's description actually weakens it :-(

[The Raven Black]

You know that my players will try to add a ton of circumstance bonuses on top of what you already provide, right ?

[The Raven Black]

Same items, different order. Same result.

I think Skynet is not yet ready for beta-testing :-))

[The Raven Black]

And the despicable item again. You do know that I will upvote any post-3rd cull item against you, right ?

[The Raven Black]

And now I have images of underage evildoers abusing this item ;-P

[The Raven Black]

You really dislike Adamantine. Which you should have been made of BTW

[The Raven Black]

Keep item vs Keep item :-/

Going for the most evocative and imaginative :-)

[Anthony Adam]

The Raven Black wrote:

You know that my players will try to add a ton of circumstance bonuses on top of what you already provide, right ?

Pull the "bonuses of the same type don't stack" on them :P

[The Raven Black]

Anthony Adam wrote:

The Raven Black wrote:

You know that my players will try to add a ton of circumstance bonuses on top of what you already provide, right ?

Pull the "bonuses of the same type don't stack" on them :P

The bonus type of the item was not circumstance bonus. Also circumstance bonuses can stack depending on the circumstances ;-)

I should likely have written "a mile-high circumstance bonus". More Superstar Critique this way :-))