gr8artist
2014-10-21, 07:39 PM
Hello. I'm gr8artist, temporary overseer of the Pathfinder Grab Bag Competition. You may have noticed us periodically making contests and voting rounds every month or two.
Well, this month we're doing something special. We want to team up and see which pair of 'brewers can create the most interesting pair of entries.
Normally our contest rounds have themes, like science and technology, divine power, or constructs. But November's round is special. The theme is team-work, and seeing how well you can work with someone else to create a pair of related entries.
Awesome, right?
There's only one problem. We're a relatively small contest on these forums, and we don't have a lot of contestants on a regular basis. So we thought we'd cast a line out here, and see if anyone was interested in joining our contest, even if only temporarily.
Here's the skinny. You will team up with another randomly chosen contestant to make a pair of entries that relate to one another in some way. They can be a pair of opposing concepts, like the paladin and antipaladin/blackguard, or a pair of concepts that work together, such as a race and a prestige class or archetype specific for that race. The options are nearly limitless, especially considering what makes a good entry...
Anything!
The best quality of the Pathfinder Grab Bag Competition (abbreviated to PGBC from here on out) is that you have a long list of options when it comes to what you'd like to make. We accept classes, prestige classes, class archetypes, races, creatures, creature templates, and even artifacts. We have templates for each of these entry types, but they are all judged equally, so we'll be looking for the "best entry" rather than "best class, best archetype, etc." Now, you'll have to figure out what kind of entries you want to make with your team-mate, but keep in mind that you don't have to both do the same thing. Your entries just have to relate to one-another in some obvious, intrinsic way.
Who are the contestants? Well, we're currently recruiting so it's hard to know just yet. Here's a current roster of interested contestants.
93 - Stake A Vamp
88 - Prehysterical
87 - Aergoth
77 - malonkey1
65 - Shimeran
57 - Jormengand
53 - Reality Glitch
44 - Milo V3
36 - Almarck
27 - gr8artist
23 - dragonjek
08 - Hollowpoint
08 - caledscratcher
01 - Warpwolf16
You'll notice my name at the top of that list. Whether or not I participate is based on the number of contestants we have. I'm posting the threads and trying to recruit players, but this contest is the work of Tanuki Tales (Tanta) and I'm just covering for him while he staggers under the weight of college life.
When the contest starts, we'll go roll some dice in another thread, and start pairing everyone up based on their rolls (highest rolls together, then the next highest, so on and so forth). Once the random team-mate assignments are complete, anyone else who decides to join after the contest has begun will need to find, bring, or wait for another player to be their team-mate. If one member of a team becomes inactive (a week or more without response to his team-mate) then the other member may form a new team with someone else, though he may not use the homebrew that his inactive team-mate was working on. For example, if Andy and Brian were making Paladin and Antipaladin archetypes, respectively, and Andy became inactive, Brian could still use his own Antipaladin archetype but he'd need to find a team-mate who would make something other than Andy's Paladin archetype.
The contest will likely remain open for a month or a month and a half, though we can push it as far as the end of December if it's more convenient. That's a problem for Tanta, I reckon.
So, who else would like to participate?
Well, this month we're doing something special. We want to team up and see which pair of 'brewers can create the most interesting pair of entries.
Normally our contest rounds have themes, like science and technology, divine power, or constructs. But November's round is special. The theme is team-work, and seeing how well you can work with someone else to create a pair of related entries.
Awesome, right?
There's only one problem. We're a relatively small contest on these forums, and we don't have a lot of contestants on a regular basis. So we thought we'd cast a line out here, and see if anyone was interested in joining our contest, even if only temporarily.
Here's the skinny. You will team up with another randomly chosen contestant to make a pair of entries that relate to one another in some way. They can be a pair of opposing concepts, like the paladin and antipaladin/blackguard, or a pair of concepts that work together, such as a race and a prestige class or archetype specific for that race. The options are nearly limitless, especially considering what makes a good entry...
Anything!
The best quality of the Pathfinder Grab Bag Competition (abbreviated to PGBC from here on out) is that you have a long list of options when it comes to what you'd like to make. We accept classes, prestige classes, class archetypes, races, creatures, creature templates, and even artifacts. We have templates for each of these entry types, but they are all judged equally, so we'll be looking for the "best entry" rather than "best class, best archetype, etc." Now, you'll have to figure out what kind of entries you want to make with your team-mate, but keep in mind that you don't have to both do the same thing. Your entries just have to relate to one-another in some obvious, intrinsic way.
Who are the contestants? Well, we're currently recruiting so it's hard to know just yet. Here's a current roster of interested contestants.
93 - Stake A Vamp
88 - Prehysterical
87 - Aergoth
77 - malonkey1
65 - Shimeran
57 - Jormengand
53 - Reality Glitch
44 - Milo V3
36 - Almarck
27 - gr8artist
23 - dragonjek
08 - Hollowpoint
08 - caledscratcher
01 - Warpwolf16
You'll notice my name at the top of that list. Whether or not I participate is based on the number of contestants we have. I'm posting the threads and trying to recruit players, but this contest is the work of Tanuki Tales (Tanta) and I'm just covering for him while he staggers under the weight of college life.
When the contest starts, we'll go roll some dice in another thread, and start pairing everyone up based on their rolls (highest rolls together, then the next highest, so on and so forth). Once the random team-mate assignments are complete, anyone else who decides to join after the contest has begun will need to find, bring, or wait for another player to be their team-mate. If one member of a team becomes inactive (a week or more without response to his team-mate) then the other member may form a new team with someone else, though he may not use the homebrew that his inactive team-mate was working on. For example, if Andy and Brian were making Paladin and Antipaladin archetypes, respectively, and Andy became inactive, Brian could still use his own Antipaladin archetype but he'd need to find a team-mate who would make something other than Andy's Paladin archetype.
The contest will likely remain open for a month or a month and a half, though we can push it as far as the end of December if it's more convenient. That's a problem for Tanta, I reckon.
So, who else would like to participate?