Results 1 to 30 of 243
-
2010-03-24, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2007
- Gender
Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Basically, a challenge to create an optimised, flavourful character, using a "secret ingredient" of a particular PrC, revealed only once the competition has started. You will need to present your build at at least one of the following points: 5th level, 10th level, 15th, 20th, and a "sweet spot" that you feel is the high point of the build. Feel free to present as many of these as you like, and please give a rundown of the build's abilities and playability at all of the levels you didn't show. The rules are as follows:
1. Menu: For most challenges, the "secret ingredient" will be drawn from Core plus Completes. There will, from time to time, be special challenges that showcase secret ingredients from other books--for example, the XPH.
2. Kitchen: Competitors will be free to use any official 3.5 rulebook in constructing their builds. Dragon magazine is disallowed, and Unearthed Arcana is allowed; but see Elegance below.
3. Cooking Time: Contests will be announced a week in advance, to give people time to sign up. Following a week of sign-ups, the "secret ingredient" will be announced. Contestants will have one week to create their builds and PM them to the Chairman (most likely me, at least for the first few.) Builds will then be posted simultaneously, to avoid copying.
4. Judging will be based on the following criteria, with each build rated from 1 (very poor) to 5 (exemplary) in each area: Originality, Power, Elegance, Use of Secret Ingredient.
Power level is up to you. Cheese is acceptable, but should be kept to a sane level unless you're showcasing a new TO build you've discovered. In the words of one of my predecessors, a little cheddar can be nice, but avoid the mature Gruyere unless you're making a cheese fondue.
Elegance could bear a little elaboration. It basically measures how skillfully you put your build together, and whether you sacrificed flavour for power. We're cooking here - if your dish doesn't taste good, it doesn't matter how well-presented it is. Use of flaws is an automatic point lost in this category. Other things that will cause lost points here are excessive multiclassing, and classes that don't fit the concept - using Cloistered Cleric in a front-line melee fighter, for example, will lose you points.
5. Builds will be posted anonymously, in order to avoid the potential of bias towards a particular competitor.
6. Please don't post or speculate on possible builds until the "reveal," in order to avoid spoiling the surprise if a particular competitor is producing a build along those lines.
7. Leadership is banned; we're producing a meal, not a seven-course banquet for a hundred diners.
So! Who wants to sign up as a contestant, and who wants to sign up as a judge? Looking for 3-4 judges and as many contestants as feel like playing!
Judges:
Grynning
Vulaas
ShneekeyTheLost
arguskos
Brendan
Contestants:
TheMadLinguist
raitalin
Mushroom Ninja
Godskook
the_archduke
Soonerdj
gallagher
Private-Prinny
FishAreWet
playswithfire
Gametime
Wings of Peace
Akal Saris
BenTheJester
AbyssKnight
the humanity
magic9mushroom
Dusk Eclipse
Evil the Cat
The Rabbler
rogueboy
BooNL
Tehnar
Malificus
KitTheOdd
RagnaroksChosen
Togo
Escheton
Hand_of_Vecna
9mm
kenjigoku
Danin
dspeyer
Secret Ingredient:
Complete Scoundrel's Psibond AgentLast edited by Heliomance; 2010-03-26 at 10:39 AM.
Quotebox
Avatar by Rain Dragon
Wish building characters for D&D 3.5 was simpler? Try HeroForge Anew! An Excel-based, highly automated character builder. v7.4 now out!
-
2010-03-24, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2010
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'm plausibly in.
-
2010-03-24, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Me and my obligitory 10 characters are in.
-
2010-03-24, 06:58 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2008
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'm in!
-
2010-03-24, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2008
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'm in. I just hope its something a tad more open ended than the entropymancer from the first one.
Avatar by Assassin89
I started my first campaign around a campfire, having pancakes. They were blueberry.
My homebrew(updated 6/17):
SpoilerIn progress:
Prolonged Spell(Fix for Persistent spell)
Weapon Training(replaces Weapon Focus chain)
Shelved:
Ascendant Feats.[New content!]
Finished:
Belts of potionade
-
2010-03-24, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Sep 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'd like to try and cook up a dish
-
2010-03-24, 07:32 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Sep 2009
- Location
- Runite
- Gender
-
2010-03-24, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Aug 2007
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I would like to judge; I love writing constructive criticisms. I'm a little rusty on 3.5 but I can be like the ditsy celebrity judge they always get on Iron Chef
My friend and I have a blog, we write D&D stuff there: http://forgotmydice.com/
Comedian avatar by The_Stoney_One
A Guide to Commonly Misunderstood 5th Edition Rules
-
2010-03-24, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2010
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
With my second-to-last place in the last one, I think this time I'll just judge it (seeing as we had 2 judges represent out of 4 last time)
-
2010-03-24, 08:26 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2010
- Location
- Rio with Snow
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Totally in, I've been practicing over the past few weeks and I'm ready to rock.
-
2010-03-24, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Sep 2009
- Location
- Some corn field
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
count me in
Spoiler
In the past, I played Sir Theo Roost.
I am soon to begin playing his heir, Dora the Destroya
Avatar by Szilard
-
2010-03-24, 08:57 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2010
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'll give it a shot.
-
2010-03-24, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jul 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'm in again. And this time I'll try harder to remember.
-
2010-03-24, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Sep 2007
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I like theme builds. Count me in as a competitor.
Homebrew
Current Project (A sequel to Tome of Battle)
Past Projects, some of which I may come back toSpoiler
-
2010-03-24, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'd like to try my hand at this. Count me in.
SpoilerOriginally Posted by JaronKOriginally Posted by TyndmyrOriginally Posted by Zaq
-
2010-03-24, 10:10 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2009
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Just try to stop me from competing
Doc Roc: We're going to eat ourselves.
-
2010-03-24, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Oct 2007
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Well, if Wings is in, then I guess I'm in again as well :)
Handbooks: (Hosted on the new MixMax forums)
[3.5] The Poison Handbook
[3.5] (New) Master of Shrouds Handbook
[3.5 Base Class] Healer's Handbook
Trophies!Spoiler
Thanks to Strategos and Jumilk for the awesome Iron Chef trophies!
-
2010-03-24, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2009
- Gender
-
2010-03-24, 10:22 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
In again!
(rabblerabble)
-
2010-03-24, 10:24 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I am participating.
-
2010-03-24, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2010
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'll try my hand.
-
2010-03-24, 10:27 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jan 2009
-
2010-03-24, 10:33 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Dec 2004
- Location
- I wish I knew...
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I would be available as a judge, since you seem to have a surplus of entrants and a dearth of judges
SpoilerQuite possibly, the best rebuttal I have ever witnessed.
Joker Bard - the DM's solution to the Batman Wizard.
Takahashi no Onisan - The scariest Samurai alive
Incarnum and YOU: a reference guide
Soulmelds, by class and slot: Another Incarnum reference
Multiclassing for Newbies: A reference guide for the rest of us
My homebrew world in progress: Falcora
-
2010-03-24, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jul 2008
- Location
- Broken Damaged Worthless
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
I'd be happy to judge, actually. I'd appreciate a PM involving judging details and deadlines, of course.
All that I say applies only to myself. You author your own actions and choices. I cannot and will not be responsible for you, nor are you for me, regardless of situation or circumstance.
-
2010-03-24, 10:52 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Jun 2009
- Gender
-
2010-03-24, 10:54 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Dec 2004
- Location
- I wish I knew...
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
SpoilerQuite possibly, the best rebuttal I have ever witnessed.
Joker Bard - the DM's solution to the Batman Wizard.
Takahashi no Onisan - The scariest Samurai alive
Incarnum and YOU: a reference guide
Soulmelds, by class and slot: Another Incarnum reference
Multiclassing for Newbies: A reference guide for the rest of us
My homebrew world in progress: Falcora
-
2010-03-24, 11:45 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2009
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
This sounds fun, I'd like to give it a shot.
-
2010-03-24, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2010
- Location
- the 64th layer
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
this looks like a lot of fun, count me in.
*note: not all advice by this poster is meant to be taken seriously.
Warlock/Swordsage avatar by yldenfrei
optimization is like salt. a pinch here and there can't hurt, but too much will spoil everything.
I have salty tastes.
-
2010-03-24, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Aug 2007
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Sweet, we have 4 judges (and I think it's a great panel, if I do say so myself). But there's a ton of potential competitors...maybe they should divide up into flights or something? I guess we'll see how many folks actually submit builds to Heliomance.
My friend and I have a blog, we write D&D stuff there: http://forgotmydice.com/
Comedian avatar by The_Stoney_One
A Guide to Commonly Misunderstood 5th Edition Rules
-
2010-03-25, 12:14 AM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Apr 2008
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Gender
Re: Iron Chef Optimisation Challenge II
Put me down as a contestant! I should actually have enough time to be able to put something together for this next quarter, and I definitely need to get back into looking at this kind of thing.