FATE questions get fewer views than 3.5 questions, and a monk homebrew is going to get more attention than an alchemist homebrew for reasons having nothing to do with quality.
Less attention = fewer votes in both cases, regardless of quality.
The winners would be narrowed down to those who chose the most popular topics, and yes--within that category quality would rise to the top.
But superior quality in unpopular areas doesn't rise as far in a democratic system.
Not necessarily. Contest themes tend to be, ah, thematic. "Fallen heroes" or "blindness" or "music". Sometimes we see a mechanical theme like "In-house spellcasting" or that kind of thing
@BESW - Okay, to give you an idea: back when I was hosting the base class contest, I had a theme of "Light". One guy did a theme based on weight manipulation
With a bunch of abilities that could make stuff lighter.
"Hi, I only play the old Doctor Who RPG from the 80s. I've been a member for ten months and I don't do much because DWRPG isn't too popular, but I try to contribute whenever I can! I do a lot of work on formatting and tag edits, because that's something I can help with regardless of system. I'd like to participate in the anniversary celebrations, but even though I made my own DWRPG contest and entered in it... nobody else did."
Like I said, I want it to work. But I think it would be terribly irresponsible and go against the ethos of the site if we just ignored the idea that this might not be all-inclusive.
If people are going to feel left out, we need to at least acknowledge it.
"We're sorry, please contribute to the best of your ability and give us ideas for how to better next time" would be a pathetically minimal start.
Reeallly. Because context heavily implied otherwise, what with the previous bit of the chat before you started being Brian and I talking about contests to celebrate the anniversary, and then you come in and ping Brian about an idea for a contest.
So, we've been invited, by the powers that be, to celebrate a one year anniversary with a contest.
While other sites have had contests for "best user" and "unanswered question cleanup" ... we have 4 unanswered questions and a tightly knit community.
What kind of contest should we run for our Ap...
@BrianBallsun-Stanton So you'd suggest that I flog a 3.X contest and if another system or system(s) wants in on the action we burn that bridge as we cross it?
@BESW - Well, the thing is this: what would you say the essential difference between designing a 5-level PrC and a 10-level PrC is from a /thematic/ standpoint?
Well, alright. Here's the thing: a 5-level PrC is a short investment. Even if you refluff it, that PrC invests a relatively small investment of training, whereas if you invest ten levels in a PrC that's fully half or more of your heroic career
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@BESW No one ever accused WotC of consistently good design.
But if I set a five-level class as a criteria, I'm straight-up telling people to make something limited in scope. Five levels is a short period in which to get your theme across
One of my favorite PrCs I designed was a seven-level little beauty themed around autumn, the Dukes of the Last Light
Maybe, and maybe not. What I or @KRyan do or don't do will set the tone. The contests we hail from set a theme and give no restrictions beyond that. 3-level, 5-level, 10-level, there's even a few 14-level ones I've seen
If we open up with restrictions, that'll be expected. Is that bad? Maybe, maybe not
Sorry, that's the third or fourth time today that someone's hit me with "But sometimes the conditions you're trying to create happen outside the environment you're using to create them."
"No man is an island. Just as the continent of Europe is diminished by each clod of soil that washes into the sea, so is mankind diminished with each departing soul. Therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee."
@BrianBallsun-Stanton "When I looked for good, then evil came unto me, and where I waited for light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled and rested not; the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am the brother to dragons, and the companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burnt with heat. My harp also is tuned to mourning, and my voice into the organ of them that weep."
After observing and participating in some discussions between @KRyan and other posters, I've come to believe that the Stackexchange format is superb for hosting constests whose winners are resolved democratically. Homebrew is a wonderful part of the RPG community, and homebrew contests can help g...
Re: the dissonant player, if he's truly being so selfish than I'd support SSD's verdict. But it doesn't sound like anyone's made a systematic attempt to get down to what's actually the problem and try to work it out, and until that happens tossing him out seems lazy and self-serving on the part of the rest of the group.
Hanlon's Razor and all that; I'm inclined to think he just doesn't know how to deal with or articulate his problems, rather than that he's deliberately a game-ruining jerk.
After observing and participating in some discussions between @KRyan and other posters, I've come to believe that the Stackexchange format is superb for hosting constests whose winners are resolved democratically. Homebrew is a wonderful part of the RPG community, and homebrew contests can help g...
As people move on, so are the means of communication - nowadays it's often that we play via chat - but I'm always ready and eager to assume a role or tell a story made up on the spot with the input from the others around, even if it's just with my niece and her toys. :)
I recently played a game on the board-game simulator Vassal that simulated the game's custom d6s. I'm wondering if anybody knows of a similar program (or even a module for vassal) that lets a group share customized die rolls with each other in real time over the internet.
What I would prefer is...
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Specifically: The Community user will bump unanswered questions every hour. The number of unanswered questions bumped per hour depends on the site: 4 per hour on Stack Overflow, 1 per hour on Meta, and 2 per hour on Super User and Server Fault.
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Well, some of those are artifacts of spam, Inappropriate Behavior, and the like being deleted.
Maybe you should make a meta post about this? Ask if the bump behavior is similar here, and (maybe as a followup question) how the quality of bumps can be improved.
@MaurycyZarzycki I feel you on the "hard to find players" thing.
Living on a small island where the more typically RPG-likely populations are largely transient, and the RPG community as a whole is tiny yet fractured...
Game of Thrones reminds me of twitter a lot because there are 140 characters and terrible things are constantly happening
Specifically, I'm told that Martins is a serial offender of the "Won't tell you which character I'm talking about now, you'll have to figure it out from context" gimmick.
@waxeagle He's in my top four favorite Doctors (please don't make me put them in order, three of them are tied for second place).
And that's despite having some pretty pants plotting in his season.
The poor man had only 13 episodes, and three of them were about fart monsters.
Shalka Doctor is my favorite, followed by Two, Nine, and Seven, with Eight pulling up in fourth place.
@waxeagle Yes, his season WAS crafted well as an introduction to the series, and Eccleston did a [ahem] fantastic job being alien where Tennent failed miserably and turned out to only be bipolar.
So, we've been invited, by the powers that be, to celebrate a one year anniversary with a contest.
While other sites have had contests for "best user" and "unanswered question cleanup" ... we have 4 unanswered questions and a tightly knit community.
What kind of contest should we run for our Ap...
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I recently played a game on the board-game simulator Vassal that simulated the game's custom d6s. I'm wondering if anybody knows of a similar program (or even a module for vassal) that lets a group share customized die rolls with each other in real time over the internet.
What I would prefer is...
