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2015-02-18, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
I do like the CR over ECL, especially with all class levels associated. Feel like it's better that way. I just need to find out if there's any other limitations I'm going to put on it. (Besides the INT limitation.)
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2015-02-20, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
Alright, I have concepts set up for the next 5 months. I think that should be good for now. :)
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2015-02-21, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
Any other judges looking at joining? You have 2 days to finish judging, I'll be posting the top 3 (I haven't gotten a single pm or post for honorable mention, so I won't be doing that) on Monday, at 6 PM.
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2015-02-23, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
Well after my post about being a judge, real life took over again and prevented me from doing so.
But it appeared that after I made my post, you got three judges posting their scores. Maybe I'm a trend setter?Chairman emeritus for Zinc Saucier.
Contests:
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2015-02-23, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
BBEG AVG Score Forum Member 1st Place: Lord Commander Conrad Vayne 16.08 Tonymitsu 2nd Place: Orphanicus Undeadicus
14 Sam K 3rd Place: Robert Passeris 13.5 Livius Ragna Antonia 12.83 Livius Olayrs Jurgensdottir 12.33 Aka-Chan Muk Muk and Mya 10.25 Weasel Guy Naal Longshadow 8.17 Whambamsam Anaitis 7.33 Mahonri Violist
Alright. And that's everyone. Right on time, too. The next thread should be up tomorrow, I don't have my notes on what the contest was going to be.
We can go ahead and take suggestions now, I can say that it will be CR based instead of ECL, is there anything else people think could be changed?Last edited by Gwachitallemall; 2015-02-23 at 07:03 PM.
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2015-02-24, 03:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
Well, that went better than expected! Cheers everyone, and looking forward for the next round!
Now, I think it's about time I get a creepy undead avatar kid made!
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2015-02-24, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
New thread is up Here!
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2015-02-24, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
That was fun.
Thanks all.
Rather than a suggestion, I have a question:
With regards to future competitions, are they going to be about recurring villains that dog the party throughout their whole career? Or are they going to be about overwhelming forces that the party has no real hope of defeating until their later levels?
I ask mostly because of the Elder Evils book. I like that book, and I reference it a lot when coming up with baddies and campaign ideas. But a monster created with Elder Evils has no real ECL progression, and no "sweet spot" other than the level they are statted at. Very few encounter descriptions for ECL 5/10/15 would involved anything other than, "You lose."
In the same vein, the idea of recurring villains is a difficult thing to pull off in a D&D game. Players (at least in my group) are very good at being un-cinematic about that kind of thing. When a bad guy goes down, they make sure he stays down.
Baddie progression through monster hit dice is also generally not a concept that's dealt with in a typical campaign. Say the party makes an enemy of a dragon when he's a juvenile, you are talking hundreds and hundreds of years until it ages into an adult. Most of the party could be dead from old age by then. They even lampshade this in Baldur's Gate 2 with Firkraag. He's a vicious red dragon that never ever lets go of a grudge, and is known to target the descendants of people who piss him off because he spends so long considering the perfect form of revenge that the object of the plans will die before he can carry it out.
So what we could wind up with is a lot of baddies that are advanced to fight the party by taking class levels, which would put us right back where we were with this competition, except with monsters instead of normal races and templates players would take.
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2015-02-24, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
They're going to be recurring villians. As noted, you only need to post one of those 4 levels (Level 5, level 10, level 15, level 20) and a sweet spot.
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2015-02-25, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Villainous Competition, Or Optimize my BBEG!
Congrats to the winners! I think I did pretty well for never having done one of these before, and I'm definitely looking forward to the continuation of this series. You've really got a great contest concept here, Gwachitallemall.