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2012-08-21, 09:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Dammit fluff, stop fighting me...
"No Anti-Magic field ever stopped a pouncing Barbarians Great Club"
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I appear to be a pixie. I knew I overflowed with natural charisma
Nooo! I have fallen to being a mere halfling! Guess I'll....umm.....throw things....and bemoan my favored class.....
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2012-08-21, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
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2012-08-21, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
in my experience, yes. when you second guess yourself, your build suffers for it. if something's your first instinct, that's what you're most excited about. when I placed in pistis sophia and drow judicator, I just went with my instinct: "play xiaolin showdown straight" and "evil spider-man" and it worked out. I got a little weird back in temple raider with ted, and I sort of shot myself in the foot because I was so preoccupied with what was "obvious' I didn't spend enough time on what I wanted to build.
go with your gut and you'll have funI've got a new fantasy TTRPG about running your own fencing school in a 3 musketeers pastiche setting. Book coming soon.
Check out my NEW sci-fi TTRPG about first contact. Cool alien races, murderous AIs, and more. New expansion featuring rules for ships! New book here NOW!
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2012-08-21, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
"No Anti-Magic field ever stopped a pouncing Barbarians Great Club"
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I appear to be a pixie. I knew I overflowed with natural charisma
Nooo! I have fallen to being a mere halfling! Guess I'll....umm.....throw things....and bemoan my favored class.....
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2012-08-22, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
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2012-08-22, 12:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2009
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Oh goodness, now I have a whole other awesome direction in which I can spin the fluff. I really don't think I've got two builds in me, especially given our abbreviated deadline, but I sure will try!
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2012-08-22, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Can't decide between enter and judge. Depends on the build I come up with, I guess, and whether I feel like judging eighty thousand entries.
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Ding, You've Got Trophies!Spoiler
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Samuel Clemens
Oh, and DFTBA.
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2012-08-22, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2009
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Question to older competitors... on average how many times do you revise your builds? I have revised mine at least 3 times now, I keep finding problems with it or I find an option I hadn't considered before...
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2012-08-22, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
I've got a new fantasy TTRPG about running your own fencing school in a 3 musketeers pastiche setting. Book coming soon.
Check out my NEW sci-fi TTRPG about first contact. Cool alien races, murderous AIs, and more. New expansion featuring rules for ships! New book here NOW!
Iron Chef Medals!
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2012-08-22, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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- Bellona
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
My original idea didn't work out quite as pretty as I'd hoped. Found a decent alternative, but it's not the beauty it started out to be. I may keep tinkering a bit to see if I can restore it to its former glory.
I also have another totally insane and off-the-wall build idea that I probably won't turn into an actual build. But we'll see.......Optimization Showcase in the Playground
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Shadowcaster Handbook
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IC LXXVI: Talos
IC LXXV: Alphonse Louise Constant
IC XLIX: Babalon, Queen of Bones
IC XLV: Dead Mists
IC XL: Lycus Blackbeak
IC XXXIX: AM-1468
IC XXXV: Parsifal the Fool
IC XXX: Jal Filius
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2012-08-22, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2011
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- The Great White North
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
I think you should help me judge. The more the merrier!
I usually find myself sticking to the same idea, but often about 2 revisions. The notable exception was Temple Raider (5 times), and, well... that one didn't turn out too well.
I'm part of the 'trust your gut' school of thinking, I guess.
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2012-08-23, 05:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-23, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Yeah, I usually have at least three or four revisions on my builds. Keeps poor Amphetryon busy, I'm sure...
Optimization Showcase in the Playground
Former projects:
Shadowcaster Handbook
Archer Build Compendium
Iron Chef Awards!
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IC LXXVI: Talos
IC LXXV: Alphonse Louise Constant
IC XLIX: Babalon, Queen of Bones
IC XLV: Dead Mists
IC XL: Lycus Blackbeak
IC XXXIX: AM-1468
IC XXXV: Parsifal the Fool
IC XXX: Jal Filius
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2012-08-23, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
*dumps build into chairman's inbox*
It started out all shiny and synergetic and totally going to medal, and now it's kludgy and disjointed and gaaaah where did the shiny go. Hoping for the best.
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2012-08-23, 11:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
I've got a new fantasy TTRPG about running your own fencing school in a 3 musketeers pastiche setting. Book coming soon.
Check out my NEW sci-fi TTRPG about first contact. Cool alien races, murderous AIs, and more. New expansion featuring rules for ships! New book here NOW!
Iron Chef Medals!
Amazing Princess Mononoke avatar by Dispozition
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2012-08-24, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2011
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- Minnesnowta
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Inspiration struck me today. It'll be tight, but I hope to have a submission by tomorrow morning.
There is the moral of all human tales;
'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past.
First freedom and then Glory - when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption - barbarism at last.
And History, with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page...
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2012-08-24, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-24, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Submitted my build... feels good. I don't know how I'm going to do, but the fact that I finished a build, that I actually managed to write it up, is good enough in itself.
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2012-08-24, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2012
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Someone pointed out today that the core of my cunning plan has a big hole in it. I'm seeing some sweeping last-second revisions in the near future.
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2012-08-25, 09:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Build submitted! I can't wait to see what everyone cooked up; I feel like there are a lot of potential tricks I missed with this round's Ingredient.
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2012-08-25, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2012
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Looong time lurker, first time poster. (Don't you feel special, being able to read my first ever post here?)
I cooked up a build. Then I sent it in. I think. I hope. There were...issues. (sigh)
If there's a problem with how it mangled its way through this cyber-stuff, do please let me know. I'll see if I can't fix what needs fixing, if need be.
So, assuming everything worked, now I just sit back and stew in the juices of my own anxiety, waiting for judgement to be passed down from on high? (Or up from down low?) That seems like it'll be the hardest part of all of this.
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2012-08-25, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
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2012-08-25, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
I've got a new fantasy TTRPG about running your own fencing school in a 3 musketeers pastiche setting. Book coming soon.
Check out my NEW sci-fi TTRPG about first contact. Cool alien races, murderous AIs, and more. New expansion featuring rules for ships! New book here NOW!
Iron Chef Medals!
Amazing Princess Mononoke avatar by Dispozition
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2012-08-25, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
WHAT. No-one told me about the painsticks...
Can't I just give Amphetryon my agonizer and be done with it?
*shivers* Now... the wait. Till my sorry piece of work is revealed.
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2012-08-25, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
I just want to get at least a 12 this time. Not even caring about medaling anymore, considering that some of us has been waiting on this and that means there's going to be awesome entries.
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2012-08-25, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Hey, Amphetryon, for some reason or another I wanted to ask about what happens if somebody submits a build but, for whatever reason, the PM doesn't go through. Do you check to make sure that you've gotten a submission from everybody who posts saying they've submitted? If it wasn't caught until after you post the builds, would you allow somebody to resend it and enter then, or would they be out of luck?
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2012-08-25, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2012
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Thanks for the welcomes. (And so quickly done, too.)
Now, about these painsticks... Surely their use violates forum rules somehow? Right? Er... *gulp* Right?!?
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2012-08-25, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
Enter at your own risk; no money will be refunded*. Not responsible for lost, misplaced, incorrectly sent applications, or Acts of Mod. The forum PMer does have a "receipt" option for the extra paranoid types.
*Because, yanno, we don't charge any money or award any here at Iron Chef.
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2012-08-25, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI
It was cool when there were trophies.
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2012-08-25, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge in the Playground XXXVI