D&D Subclass Contest XI Voting Thread

[MoleMage]

Eleventh contest done, with 11 complete entries this time!

Simple rules. Vote for your top three picks in order. You can't vote for yourself. A number 1 vote is worth 3 points, a number 2 vote is worth 2, and a number 3 vote is worth one.

Entry	Creator	1st	2nd	3rd
Bard: College of Plautus	theVoidWatches	0	0	0
Monk: Way of the Elemental Bands	Fnissalot	0	0	0
Barbarian: Path of the Bloodied	nickl_2000	0	0	0
Paladin: Oath of Light	thisdude9001	0	0	0
Fighter: Shikensu Warrior	BerzerkerUnit	0	0	0
Barbarian: Path of the Spellbound	Nicrosil	0	0	0
Paladin: Oath of the Enshaedn	Phhase	0	0	0
Warlock: Great Dragon Patron	sengmeng	0	0	0
Fighter: Guilder	Lanth Sor	0	0	0
Druid: The Circle of Eyes	SleeplessWriter	0	0	0
Fighter: Irradiated	RickAsWritten	0	0	0

Classes unrepresented in Context X: Cleric, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Wizard.

And for our themes, Keep it Simple carries over as last contest's runner up, alongside four randomly chosen themes. Pick your top two in order, a number one vote is worth 2 and a number 2 vote is worth one point.

Theme	Description	1st	2nd
Keep It Simple, Stupid	Simple Subclasses	0	0
From Zero to Hero	Ordinary folks doing the extraordinary	0	0
Scaling Strangely	Subclasses that scale from unusual values	0	0
Subsystems Online	New game mechanics	0	0
It's Mind!	Subclasses focused on mental abilities	0	0

This voting thread will stay open until the end of the day on October 27th. The following day I will post with the tallied results and declare a winner, then post the next contest thread. Good luck everyone!

[sleepyhead]

1- Way of the Elemental Bands
2- Path of the Bloodied
3- Oath of the Enshaedn

1- It's Mind!
2- Subsystems Online

[RickAsWritten]

1st: Nicrosil's Barbarian Path of the Spellbound - Fun, interesting, balanced. Well done.

2nd: SleeplessWriter's Druid: The Circle of Eyes - Thematic, simple, fun.

3rd: Fnissalot's Monk Way of the Elemental Bands - Innovative and interesting. A little complex.

Next Theme:
1st: Scaling Strangely
2nd: It's Mind!

[nickl_2000]

Subclasses -
1) Druid, Circle of Eyes
2) Martial Archetype – Irradiated
3) Paladin - Oath of Light

Next Contests -
1) KISS
2) It's in the mind

[BerzerkerUnit]

1. Irradiated Fighter
2. Enshaedn Oath
3. Light Oath

Next time:
1. It’s Mind
2. Keep it Simple

[Fnissalot]

1. Path of the Bloodied; straight forward and super cool! I like it a lot!
2. Path of the Spellbound; this looks much better than the wild magic barbarian in the unearthed arcana.
3. Circle of Eyes; I was initially afraid that this would just be a reskin of the divination school or the lucky feat, but I am happy to see that is not the case.

1. Keep it simple!
2. Subsystems online

[Phhase]

1. theVoidWatches' College of Plautus (It's "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" as a subclass.)
2. Nicrosil's Path of the Spellbound (Just the right balance of usable, complex, and creative!)
3 RickAsWritten's Irradiated Fighter (The more I think about it, the cooler it sounds.)

1. Scaling Strangely
2. Subsystems Online

[SleeplessWriter]

Contest Votes

1. Irradiated Fighter: It provides a fairly solid base and some cool options without getting too complex. All around a good place for a fighter subclass. It also provides some fun roleplay possibilities. Like a dumber than rocks warrior who somehow survived the destruction of his city and now insists on trying to cook stews for the party which are really just (toxic) random junk that he found lying around in the rubble, but somehow occasionally knows stuff about magic, which usually causes him to go lie down saying "thinking makes me sleepy." Lot's of fun stuff there.

2. Path of the Bloodied: What can I say, I love blood themed subclasses and mechanics around taking damage and such, and this one does it fairly well without getting too out of hand and broken. Well done.

3. Shikensu Warrior: I really like the idea behind this subclass of gaining an advantage over your opponents from prior successes. There were one or two awkward things mechanic wise, but they weren't really that big of a snarl.

Theme Votes:

1. It's Mind!

2. Subsystems Online.

[Nicrosil]

Subclass votes:
1. Sengmeng's Great Dragon Patron
2. SleeplessWriter's Circle of Eyes
3. theVoidWatches' College of Plautus

Future contest votes:
1. Keep It Simple Stupid
2. Scaling Strangely

[MoleMage]

I'm tabulating since MoleMage mentioned that there was a lot going on

Entry	Creator	1st	2nd	3rd	Points
Bard: College of Plautus	theVoidWatches	1	0	1	4
Monk: Way of the Elemental Bands	Fnissalot	1	0	1	4
Barbarian: Path of the Bloodied	nickl_2000	1	2	0	7
Paladin: Oath of Light	thisdude9001	0	0	2	2
Fighter: Shikensu Warrior	BerzerkerUnit	0	0	1	1
Barbarian: Path of the Spellbound	Nicrosil	1	2	0	7
Paladin: Oath of the Enshaedn	Phhase	0	1	1	2
Warlock: Great Dragon Patron	sengmeng	1	0	0	3
Fighter: Guilder	Lanth Sor	0	0	0	0
Druid: The Circle of Eyes	SleeplessWriter	1	2	1	8
Fighter: Irradiated	RickAsWritten	2	1	1	9

Looks like:
1st: RickAsWritten: Fighter: Irradiated
2nd: SleeplessWriter: Druid: The Circle of Eyes
Tied for 3rd:
Nicrosil: Barbarian: Path of the Spellbound
nickl_2000: Barbarian: Path of the Bloodied

Theme	Description	1st	2nd	Points
Keep It Simple, Stupid	Simple Subclasses	1	1	3
From Zero to Hero	Ordinary folks doing the extraordinary	0	0	0
Scaling Strangely	Subclasses that scale from unusual values	2	0	4
Subsystems Online	New game mechanics	0	3	3
It's Mind!	Subclasses focused on mental abilities	3	2	8

Next Contest:
1st: It's Mind!
2nd: Scaling Strangely

Thanks to nickl_2000 for sending me a formatted tabulation of the contest. Our winners this time are Nicrosil and nickl_2000 in a tie for third with their respective barbarian paths, SleeplessWriter in second with the Druid Circle of Eyes, and in first is RickAsWritten with the Irradiated Fighter! Congrats to our winners. The next contest (It's Mind!) should appear shortly.