Last week, Wizards of the Coast posted a contest on their community site (which many of us call Wizbook).
The contest is still open for a few days (until December 21st actually) and so far only 2 entries were sent in, mine and my friend Dave: The Game of Critical Hits fame.
Entrants can win a PHB/PHB2 gift case… Yeah, I have them already, but I’m doing this for a friend whose gaming group could use the books.
You can find my entry here and itr looks real good!
I won’t reprint the entry here, I’m pretty sure I can’t, so here’s the background…
Background: Somewhere deep in the reaches of the realms of the Fey of the Winter Court lies a dark-hearted Fey Lord that builds horrifying, murderous toys all year round in an automated factory. Once a year, during the Winter Solstice, the factory transports itself to the Northern Kingdoms of the prime world for 2 nights. During that time, the Blood-Red Spirit releases its clockwork contraptions on the kingdoms’ children in retaliation for some long forgotten slight to the Winter Court.
This year, the human kingdoms are fighting back!
Go and have a look to read the rest, let me know if you liked it. I sure had fun doing it. I even think I leveled up in trap design.
“Official resident of the US or Canada”
Discriminating against us antipodean gamers again… *grumble* *grumble*… bah humbug!
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“Official resident of the US or Canada”
I agree, this sucks – every damn contest that WoTC does has these same restrictions… I have purchased every 4e book out there but am never eligible to enter any competitions despite D&D supposedly being a global game..
then again, the gametable isnt out yet so i am not terribly surprised at a lack of support to global customers.
But now that I’ve got that out of my system, nice encounter Chatty. I especially liked the Reintaurs and the fact that they’re wearing antlers (rather than actually having them).
Two things I noticed:
1: Nitpick. I believe standard practice is for the stat blocks for an encounter to indicate the number of creatures and their map code (eg. your Reintaur stat blocks should be headed “2 Reintaur Hunters (R)” rather than just “Reintaur Hunter”); and
2. It seems your post was moderated by WotC_Trevor. Do you know what he did and why?
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Man I wish you could edit posts on WordPress!
I just looked at the stat blocks for your entry again Chatty and noticed that Wither’s Glare and Dance My Puppets! powers on Kris Crimson have “-1” in them that doesn’t seem to mean anything. Is it part of a damage expression that has been mangled?
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@Colmar & Dank: Trevor explained that the contest was a ‘ohhh lets do this… no time to get embroiled with legal” and they probably used the standard contest rule (which I’m not sure my province adheres to). But as things stand
@Colmar: I noticed several typos and English as a Second Language errors after I posted it but when Trevor ‘fixed’ the horrendous layout of my original post (Wizbook hates Word it seems), I could no longer re-edit… So I noticed the Antler thing.
Also, the whole thing went largely unedited because it took me more than 10 hours to build from top to bottom… After that, I was kinda fed up and went with lowered Quality Control. Sorry about that. When I submit stuff to Kobold Quarterly and other venues, I have friends who check these things.
As for Kris’ power … I never noticed so I’ll blame WotC’s monster builder and my lack of stat bloc editing.
No need to apologise. My post(s) were intended to be helpful, not critical.
You mean they were meant to have antlers, rather than wear them? I’m disappointed. I loved the idea of reintaurs wearing those silly red-and-green foam antlers!
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See, I don’t quite read Aussie yet. I get defensive when all you’re saying is ‘relax, have a Beer’ 🙂
I’ll leave the Antlers written as is, call it a Blooper that makes it better. ..
Yeah, I thought they were wearing silly antler hats, which would explain a bit about their attitude…
The monster editor as its quirks and this occasional addition of damage when the field his left empty on an edited power is one of them.
At least it did not do the -43287436825382 HP bug. 😉
there’s 3 winners so looks likes the 3 entries will get it no matter what…just kidding i think they’re all GREAT! good job guys. maybe i’ll put something together so i can say i was “runner up”…why no second place prizes?
There are now several entries in the contest, confirming that gamers are last minute people :). The other entries are very interesting, although it seems the last one I read ‘borrowed’ some mechanics from Dave’s entry… that’s kinda cheap.
We’ll see what else comes up… I’m confident I have a good shot at it.