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    Quote Originally Posted by Braininthejar2 View Post
    A question for future builds I might try:

    We normally start with an elite array.

    But how to calculate mental stats for a creature that gets awakened somewhere during the build?
    There's no easy answer for that, and it's a question I've pondered myself.

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    There's no easy answer for that, and it's a question I've pondered myself.
    One option is to have a comp policy on any awakened creatures being treated as having a template that gives them the augmented subtype and +1 CR.

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    Honestly I say we should create an "inherited Template" that we use for the competitions. One for animals, vermin, plants, oozes, undead, and constructs. One that we throw in the description of the future Competitions in the future as a spoilered thing.

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    An awakened Animal has it's intelligence set to 10, gains +2 charisma, and +2 Hit Dice. It's type changes to Magical Beast [Augmented Animal]


    someone help me flesh that out?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Falontani View Post
    Honestly I say we should create an "inherited Template" that we use for the competitions. One for animals, vermin, plants, oozes, undead, and constructs. One that we throw in the description of the future Competitions in the future as a spoilered thing.

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    An awakened Animal has it's intelligence set to 10, gains +2 charisma, and +2 Hit Dice. It's type changes to Magical Beast [Augmented Animal]


    someone help me flesh that out?
    I don't see why it shouldn't be Acquired, though. Being the child of two awakened animals doesn't make you an awakened animal yourself.
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    Another question: Any erratas I should be aware of that could turn up important?

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    Depends on the book
    MM3 had a heavy amount of errata for the monsters within.
    MM2 had a full update for every monster for the 3.5 rules.
    Fiend Folio just updated crafting costs and DR for the monsters, creating a few oddities.
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    And where best to look for those? I've tried, especially for MM1, but kept getting redirected to V ed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Braininthejar2 View Post
    And where best to look for those? I've tried, especially for MM1, but kept getting redirected to V ed.
    There's an archive with most of the errata and 3.5 updates here, though off the top of my head it's missing the Monsters of Faerun update from the PGtF Web Enhancment, and perhaps a handful of others.

    As far as MMI goes, I think that d20srd is up to date, unless you're worried about product identity stuff.
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    I'm sorry for being late, this is taking considerably longer than what I though and I haven't found as much time to get to it as I expected. I am currently judging the Elegance category, and am done with 8 builds out of 13. However, I expect it to be the longest category to judge of them all, so I'm not losing hope
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    From Judge to judge, thanks for persevering.

    What competition theme(s) are you excited about?

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    Dunno...a duo of villains seems cool. I rather liked the whole list that was tossed around at some point.

    Ah, yes, I also had another idea: the McGuffin villain. The idea is to have a villain built around a specific McGuffin. The PCs must absolutely prevent it from getting its hands on the McGuffin/ find and use the McGuffin in order to defeat the villain/ other. Either the villain does not know where the McGuffin is (in which case it has to be good at detection) or knows and hides it (it must be competent at keeping the PCs at bay) or maybe another way around it. Then, the villain has a crippling weakness to said McGuffin, or maybe becomes unbelievably powerful if it manages to get its hands on it, etc etc. Since a lot of campaigns resort to a McGuffin at some point or another, that'd be a round full of very useful and applicable villains for a lot of DMs I think
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    We appreciate your efforts remetagross!

    I think McGuffin villain would be a pretty interesting concept. Villain seeking to be reunited with their lost item is a real classic.
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    Bumping because page 4

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    Sorry folks, I'm not done yet, and I haven't given up either. Tell you what: let's start the next comp by the end of the week, regardless of whether I'm done or not, so as not to let things drag on too much. How about that Inevitability?
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    I could definitely do that.
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    I would like to make an announcement:

    I have chaired this competition for some time now, and while it's been great seeing the creative and diverse builds people came up with, I do find myself wishing I could participate again. For that reason, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to take over the mantle of chair.

    I will obviously still be finishing up this competition once a judge presents themselves (if there's multiple people who want to chair, perhaps the one to present judgements gets to?). The new chair could start the next round before that, of course.

    I'd also like to thank all competitors, judges, or fans for being involved in this competition. The reason it's awesome is because of you.
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    while i do love building for VC, I'd be willing to chair it so you can get in on the action as well. I'd probably need a little info on how to do your job though :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdizzlean View Post
    while i do love building for VC, I'd be willing to chair it so you can get in on the action as well. I'd probably need a little info on how to do your job though :)
    Well basically it amounts to:

    1. Making a new thread every so often. I just copy basically everything from the old one, add a few relevant details, and occasionally update the rulings.

    2. Receive builds as they are submitted. Very easy: just inform people you received their build.

    3. Answer questions. Most of the time these will be 'would doing X cause me to lose points in category Y' and most of the time the answer will be 'that is up to individual judges'.

    4. Post builds after deadline has passed, maybe with witticisms.

    5. Reveal builds after judging. Same as before, basically.



    All in all, it's not a particularly hard job.
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    ok :)

    I'm currently in book hell making a submission for JYW's. Once I'm done w/ that, assuming no one else wishes to chair, I'll work with you to get the next round going and take over from there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inevitability View Post
    I would like to make an announcement:

    I have chaired this competition for some time now, and while it's been great seeing the creative and diverse builds people came up with, I do find myself wishing I could participate again. For that reason, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to take over the mantle of chair.

    I will obviously still be finishing up this competition once a judge presents themselves (if there's multiple people who want to chair, perhaps the one to present judgements gets to?). The new chair could start the next round before that, of course.

    I'd also like to thank all competitors, judges, or fans for being involved in this competition. The reason it's awesome is because of you.
    Thanks for all of your efforts, Inevitability; I know first-hand how demanding chairing one of these can be.

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    Still waiting for a judge here! Someone? Anyone?
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    Is it possible for the chair to judge our entries? I'd hate for there to have never been a judge, and with it being Inevitability's last time for the foreseeable future as chair, I think it would be appropriate that he can judge this one if he wants to.
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    I still have 4 entries to deal with in Power, and then all of Memorability. And then, some formatting and harmonizing.

    I takes me about an hour to deal with one category of one entry. Judges, is that normal? I've worked about 35 hours on that judgement already...
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    Quote Originally Posted by remetagross View Post
    I still have 4 entries to deal with in Power, and then all of Memorability. And then, some formatting and harmonizing.

    I takes me about an hour to deal with one category of one entry. Judges, is that normal? I've worked about 35 hours on that judgement already...
    That seems excessive. You could cut that time in half and just let disputes do the other half of the work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by remetagross View Post
    I still have 4 entries to deal with in Power, and then all of Memorability. And then, some formatting and harmonizing.

    I takes me about an hour to deal with one category of one entry. Judges, is that normal? I've worked about 35 hours on that judgement already...
    That is considerably more time than I spent on it when I judged in the past.
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    I agree.

    Unless the entries are REALLY complicated I spend around 10 minutes on Power and Elegance each, and 5-10 on the other 2 eachish.....


    Of course, if you have to look uop a lot this goes up massively.
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    Quote Originally Posted by remetagross View Post
    I still have 4 entries to deal with in Power, and then all of Memorability. And then, some formatting and harmonizing.

    I takes me about an hour to deal with one category of one entry. Judges, is that normal? I've worked about 35 hours on that judgement already...
    i usually just do 1 build at a time, instead of 1 category at a time. unless i have to book dive, or clarify the details, it usually takes me 30-45 mins a build. so 35 hours seems like an insane amount of time, especially if you're only half done
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    Okay, points duly noted. I need to revamp the way I'm dealing with the judgements. Thanks for the answers.
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