I really could not resist coming up with a few joke ideas for the RPG Superstar contest, the problem is that I’m also very interested in seriously entering but all I have spent time on is things like you see here. It seems like some of the steps in this contest will be harder to judge then others, wondrous items seems fairly easy whereas the kinds of Countries that people will come up with kind of frightens me. Villains and monsters again seem easier to judge then a single encounter or even the full adventure that is the final round. I suppose the fact that there will be fewer and fewer submissions will help, but I’m skeptical as of now about how concrete their rating / reviewing system will be. All of this also needs to take into consideration that there are three paizo judges as well as online voting, but I haven’t read thoroughly enough to know whether they’re doing a Dancing with the Stars style of rating (half judges / half votes on a 0-30 scale) or how its all going to play out.
With the Allspark as a Wondrous Item in D&D, I wonder if the autobots would transform into things along the line of castles, wagons, and the like whereas Megatron would turn into an arquebus and the rest of the Decepticons would become Da Vinci’s flying machine and other fantastical mechinations. It’s a ridiculous idea, but just imagine a semi-truck driving through your favorite fantasy countryside and tell me what’s more ridiculous. I was very surprised when I read the Transformers vs. G.I. Joe comic a few years back and they’d shifted the whole thing to a WW2 era and all of the transformers turned into old-school tanks and planes, that ended up being way kickass however it could have just been the sweet art by Jae Lee.
Reverend Mike says
That reminds me of the time me and my buddies got together and cataloged the stats for all of the objects in The Lost Room…some of the powers weren’t stated in the show, but thanks to Wikipedias list of all the objects and their known powers, we came up with some very interesting stuff (left cufflink = lowers blood pressure…but right cufflink = ???…must be “heightens blood pressure”)…
Shortly thereafter, we drew up the stats for the gods of the TV Pantheon…
Yax says
The allspark is awesome but I wouldn’t run the risk of becoming bald. It’s all yours.
The Game says
Yax- you’re OK with lycanthropy and erectile dysfunction but not baldness? You’ve got some priorities, man 🙂
Reverend Mike says
Lycanthropy and erectile dysfunction cancel each other out…duh…
Reverend Mike says
Also, hair is the source of all human power…there’s definitely a gargantuan/colossal cube of hair covered in unknown charts and descriptions floating in the depths of space right now…I’ve got a smaller model of this made of my own hair sitting around in a shoebox somewhere…don’t ask why…