Contest Ideas

[bingo_bob]

Hmm, I think I'll join in on the next contest, I was considering doing city, but then 27 other cities cropped up, and I realized I was doomed.

Oh, and if it IS screenname monsters, you can expect to fear the dreaded Bing Obob... ;D

[Jibar]

Screenname monsters? I'd join in with that'n,
Jibar, a half shocker lizard, half drow, 100% PURE EVIL! MWUHAHAHHAHA!

With a side order of viengar too... ::)

[Thayan]

Screen name Monster I cant enter (Mine is technicly already created and owned by WOTC)...:)

[The Glyphstone]

Alter your screenname. PokeThe??? does it about once every two weeks.

[Lilly]

Where did anyone say it was a screen name monster contest? I know I didn't.

[Sucros]

"monsters" was given. Screenname was just conjecture.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Nice. Monsters are my speciality... 8)

[Frojoe21]

Screen name monsters would be a good idea. I got a couple ideas for my sn beast.

[Lilly]

Still not screen name monsters...

[Sucros]

Good, because "Sucros" isn't helping inspire any ideas.

[The Glyphstone]

"Sucros"...hmm, isn't that a type of sugar? You could do an undead monster that steals the sugars from its victims - The Atkinzombie. ;D

[Everyman]

"Just a spoonGHOUL of sugar helps the medicine go down!"

On a more serious note, I'm looking forward to our new contest. Monsters...hehe.

[Sucros]

"Sucros"...hmm, isn't that a type of sugar? You could do an undead monster that steals the sugars from its victims - The Atkinzombie. ;D

That beats my idea: a monster able to go into a haste state, then become fatigued and gain a size category :P

[jack-skelington-]

1:highest amount of damage done in a round?
(no magic items)

[Adghar]

With the growing population of OotSers, the number of contests to read/vote on is getting rather large. I think maybe we should have a split up contest area so that lazy people might only have half the entries to read through if they want to vote.

[EvilDave]

Are there any thoughts on the next contest? The end of the month if fast approaching and there have been few posts on this thread recently.

The last few comments seemed to be related to a prestige class or NPC, both of which I would be interested in doing, and some suggestions from Gorbash which would be cool, especially the Fighter Feat Chain (I, as a chain-wielding Spellsword, would have a distinct interest in the results of that one, were it to happen).

I'd try to get an entry in for any of the those three, but are there any other ideas?

[Premier]

Actually, I personally would rather not see any of those topics as the next one. This current competition is rather crunch-heavy, so the next one should be a fluff-oriented one - just like THIS one got to be crunch heavy exactly to provide a change from the one before.

[sacreddeamon]

Hrm, well, I have two ideas.

As a crunch heavy, how about a low level dungeon? Nothing major, a few rooms, treasures, and monsters.

As a fluff heavy, how about a small town, campaign setting, or God? Making your own God would be fun, give it the domains and such, and you woudlnt need to include the divine stuff (only if you wanted to)

[Premier]

Well, the last competition was Make Your Own City, which is pretty similar to a town competition. And shortly before that, we had an unofficial Design Your Own Pantheon thing, so that's also been done recently.

Campaign setting is an interesting theme, but only if the competitors can find the balance between quality and quantity.

[LeifVignirsson]

Well, maybe not in the vein fo create-your-own-town but how about creating a guild? Not like a Thieves guild or anything but like a wizard's school, a clandestine clerical order, etc?

[bingo_bob]

or God? Making your own God would be fun, give it the domains and such, and you woudlnt need to include the divine stuff (only if you wanted to)

Bleh. That wouldn't go so well, considering GiantITP is home of the Ever Dream, where there are TONS of gods. It would just be too easy.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Since its going into October and all, how about we have to write a ghost/horror story of some kind? Or maybe an extremely scarey scenario (not like throwing a demon at a 1st level part, but frightening, nerve gripping).

[Adghar]

With the growing population of OotSers, the number of contests to read/vote on is getting rather large. I think maybe we should have a split up contest area so that lazy people might only have half the entries to read through if they want to vote.

No one likes my idea? :'(

[Gorbash Kazdar]

Actually, I don't follow what you're suggesting... the VOTE threads list all the qualifying entries, and we want everyone to read all of them before voting in a particular contest. This already cuts out the non-qualfying threads, which lowers the number in and of itself.

Could you clarify what you're suggesting we do?

[McDeath]

BBEG creation contest? Secret society creation? I'm just throwing out ideas here.

[Snommelp]

BBEG, or in that same vein, Final Encounter. After all, most BBEGs like to have minions hanging around, and it would make sense to stat those out, too.

[Adghar]

Actually, I don't follow what you're suggesting... the VOTE threads list all the qualifying entries, and we want everyone to read all of them before voting in a particular contest. This already cuts out the non-qualfying threads, which lowers the number in and of itself.

Could you clarify what you're suggesting we do?

I was thinking something like two contests at a time and people could only participate in one at once. This is so that voters only have to read through half the entries before voting. It would also give people other than The_Glyphstone a chance. :P

But then I see why it would be bad.

[The Glyphstone]

Yeah, because then I can't play in both of them!

And it would be a lot more work for the mods...

[Hydro]

I don't want to spoil my monster idea by rushing him; nevertheless, he will see the light of day eventually. Some day.

Just like the panthion that I never submitted later received a full write-up and became the panthion for the single best d&d campeign I have ever run, and the magic item set that I never submitted isn't far from developing into a full-blown adventure that I may even send to Dragon. ^_^()

Nevertheless, my own continued failure to participate in these wonderful contests is starting to annoy me.




Moving on to more constructive things, an npc design contest is my current favorite idea. Provided that the contest was geared towards usefulness, as the others have been, that is: "Best Villian", "Best Henchman", "Best Friend/Contact" and perhaps even "Best Hero/Ally" would all be great award criteria.

[Gorbash Kazdar]

We're pretty sure we have the idea for the next contest ready, and it should be a bit of a surprise.

As for running multiple contests at the same time... the logistics of that are nigh impossible, and I don't think it would really solve the problem, plus it would create a whole bunch of other problems to deal with. So, I'm going to say no.