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2010-10-01, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge XII
Just got home.
It will take me a bit to format the entries. There are 11 entries, so I'm going to reserve the next 12 posts quickly (1 for a handy list of all the entries). Please avoid posting till they're up. Posts are reserved: getting up the entries, then posting the witty and/or relevant intros to meet the forum's minimum non-quote message length.
I've added you as an alternate judge. We'll use your scores if it's close at the end (Win or Place would be decided by 4 or fewer points) or if one of the other judges is unable to complete scoring. Please feel free to judge and post as normal.
In general, I'd like to remind judges that part of the goal is constructive criticism: if you can be specific, the contestants are more likely to take something away from this that will make them better at CharOp.Last edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-02 at 12:11 AM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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"The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel." -Marie Osmond
Originally Posted by Dolgan WhurardLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:27 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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"The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears."
- Rick Bass, The Lost Grizzlies
Originally Posted by Esha Two BearsLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:31 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." -Jack Kerouac
Originally Posted by Khalanatari, Ascetic NightmareLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:33 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Beware the fury of a patient man." -Daken, in Daken: Dark Wolverine, Volume 1, Issue 1
Originally Posted by DakenLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:37 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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“And where two waging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
Though little fire grows great with little wind,
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
-William Shakespeare
Originally Posted by Xepher LodLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:42 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.”
-William Shakespeare
Originally Posted by Tanis BloodbladeLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:44 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion”
Egyptian Proverb
Originally Posted by Violet RoseLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:51 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Originally Posted by Krelb the CannyLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-02 at 12:10 AM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.”
-Goethe
Originally Posted by Sublime Mind of WarLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-01 at 11:55 PM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
-Marcus Aurelius
Originally Posted by Ultimo Tarrasco Jr.Last edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-02 at 12:00 AM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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“For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.”
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Originally Posted by Bosleigh EddonLast edited by Ozymandias9; 2010-10-02 at 12:07 AM.
78% of DM's started their first campaign in a tavern. [...]Where did you start yours?
A street riot in a major city that was getting violent.
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2010-10-01, 11:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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War mind with not one mention of House Vaymin (CPsi)? The ones who wrote the Codex to begin with? Not that it is critical but that's like a Corona without the lemon, drinkable but lacking somehow.
Just my $ 0.02Last edited by classy one; 2010-10-01 at 11:28 PM.
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2010-10-01, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-10-01, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Great entries! I do not envy the judges.
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2010-10-02, 12:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow; Awesome entries! I'm impressed with the variety in the entries; Hope mine is up to scratch.
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2010-10-02, 12:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Love the two multi-grappling builds, nice spot on sweeping strike.
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2010-10-02, 05:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge XII
This just means I know flavor better than all the other contestants. House Vaymin were the originators of Chains and put that down in the Codex. Granted the wild talent (Vaymin) is hardly optimal, the least you could do is make a Vaymin teach/adopt your PC. Or better yet, recruit your PC for breeding purposes (they have a bene gesirit thing going on).
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2010-10-02, 06:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Iron Chef Optimization Challenge XII
Corona is typically garnished with lime rather than a lemon, and that started as a method of keeping flies away in a Latin American outdoor cafe.
Just sayin'.
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2010-10-02, 06:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Couldn't the PC just loot the text from a dungeon somewhere? Given their propensity for violence, I'm sure quite a few Warminds have met an untimely end. Their relics and tomes would be scattered all over the place, possibly even reproduced by unscrupulous opportunists.
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2010-10-02, 06:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-10-02, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's a logical leap somewhere in the middle there . It really just means you read one particular bit of flavor that others overlooked. The other contestants may know different flavor better. For example, I know my homebrewed world inside and out. I'm learning the flavor of Eberron for my RL DMing. The Realms, I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
Judging in progress (6 done). I should be done by Monday. Just as a warning, some of my scores will be very low. I love the ideas presented, but I've seen multiple illegal builds. For the record, if you don't meet the prerequisites for even one feat, I count that as an illegal build. This contest is about the best and brightest in optimization--let's not sully our reputations by missing simple rules.
However, I fear my deduction for illegal builds may be too harsh. Miss one feat prerequisite, and the highest you can get is 8 points. I'd like to hear from Ozy and the other judges--should I change my penalty to a 1 in Power and Elegance, but still score [attempted] use of the secret ingredient? Then the max score for an illegal build would be 12, and it wouldn't penalize the idea of the build, only the execution. So what say you?
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2010-10-02, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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It will be interesting to see which ones were deemed illegal, then.
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2010-10-02, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dolgan:
SpoilerOriginality: 4.5 (I love its concept, but unless it is perfect, and I mean perfect, it does not get a 5.)
Power: 3.5 (It does have a lot of defensive and offensive power, but melee is melee.)
Elegance: 2 (The backstory just feels quickly put together.)
Use of Special Ingredient: 4.5 (War Mind is very important to this build. Well done!)
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2010-10-02, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-10-02, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow. I was expecting at least one Dungeoncrasher. I'm kind of surprised.
Anyway, cool stuff across the board. I can't wait to see the results.In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Suck: A Guide to Truenamers
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