D&D Subclass Contest XVII Voting Thread

[MoleMage]

Contest 17 is done, with 10 complete entries this time!

Simple rules. Vote for your top three picks in order. You can't vote for yourself. A number 1 vote is worth 3 points, a number 2 vote is worth 2, and a number 3 vote is worth one.

Entry	Creator	1st	2nd	3rd
Warlock: The Muse Patron	Fnissalot	0	0	0
Sorcerer: Soul of Song	Damon_Tor	0	0	0
Bard: College of Musical Theater	sengmeng	0	0	0
Monk: Way of the Sublime Chord	Edea	0	0	0
Bard: College of Defiance	Phhase	0	0	0
Barbarian: Path of the Shredder	BerzerkerUnit	0	0	0
Barbarian: Path of the Battlesinger	nickl_2000	0	0	0
Wizard: School of the Avantguardian	RickAsWritten	0	0	0
Monk: Way of the Golden Bell	KragBrightscale	0	0	0
Paladin: Oath of the Buskers	Crim the Cold	0	0	0

Classes unrepresented in Context XVII: Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue

And for our themes, Refine Mayhem carries over as last contest's runner up, alongside four randomly chosen themes. Pick your top two in order, a number one vote is worth 2 and a number 2 vote is worth one point.

Theme	Description	1st	2nd
Refine Mayhem	Remake an existing subclass	0	0
Five Stars	Subclasses based on excellence	0	0
Something Borrowed	Subclasses which borrow from another base class	0	0
Keep it Simple	Simple subclasses	0	0
Hold the Line	Stationary subclasses	0	0

This voting thread will stay open until the end of the day on September 7th. The following day I will post with the tallied results and declare a winner, then post the next contest thread. Good luck everyone!

[nickl_2000]

1. Monk - Way of the Golden Bell. Like usually, I have a soft spot for martials and especially monks. That being said, it's incredibly flavorful and fitting of the monk class and contest.
2. Wizard - School of the Avantguardian - This subclass is so fun. There are things to do, it's got a super fun theme, and would be a blast to RP.
3. Barbarian: Path of the Shredder - Because who doesn't want to kill people with their flute or make the Axe into a literal axe.

1. Keep it simple
2. Five Stars

[Edea]

1st/Warlock: The Muse Patron
2nd/Sorcerer: Soul of Song
3rd/Barbarian: Path of the Shredder
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1st/Refine Mayhem
2nd/Five Stars

[RickAsWritten]

1st - Crim the Cold's Paladin: The Oath of the Busker - A Bardadin. Fits the theme well, interesting abilities and not overly complex.

2nd - nickl_2000's Barbarian: Path of the Battlesinger - A proper Bardbarian. Does the "song buff" ability best of all the entries because of the simplicity.

3rd - Phhase's Bardic College: College of Defiance - Awesome theme but a bit over-tuned.



Forgot my theme vote.

1. Refine Mayhem
2. Hold the Line

[Fnissalot]

1st path of the Battlesinger
2nd school of the Avantguardian
3rd College of musical theatre

1st Five stars
2nd keep it simple

[KragBrightscale]

Hard to pick my favorites...

1st: Phhase’s Collage of Defiance. This is what I think every party really wants from their bard. Good fit for the theme. Turns up the support to 11!

2nd: RickAsWritten’s School of the Avant-guardian. Really loving the flavor on this one. Just imagining how those hidden gems were recorded in the first place. Also imagining a record-player built into the cover of a spellbook.

3rd: Edea’s Way of the Sublime Chord. Enjoyed the complexity and amount of options available here. Body as the instrument, very monk-ish take on the theme, and I like cool monk stuff.


For the next contest:

1st choice: 5 stars
2nd: Refine Mayhem

[Phhase]

1) Edea's Way of the Sublime Chord - You have crafted a marvelously intricate subclass here! Not only that, it all plays together nicely. It feeds my need for complexity. Augury is telling me we'll get along nicely .

2) nickl_2000's Path of the Battlesinger - At 10th level, you gain the explicit ability to add insult to injury. Exquisite.

3) RickAsWritten's School of the Avantguardian - "When you walk up to door, you can feel the bass, they say it's always midnight somewhere, welcome to that place..." -Underwhelming Force

Contest Picks:
1) Something Borrowed - Dibs on Wizard with metamagic
2) Reinvent Mayhem - See above. Or maybe Shadow Sorcerer.

Big thanks to KragBrightscale for giving me my first first choice vote! Feelsgoodman.

[BerzerkerUnit]

1. Golden Bell Monk
2. College of Musical Theatre
3. Avantguardian Wizard

Next contest:
Stationary Sublclass
5 Stars

[Damon_Tor]

1. Way of the Sublime Chord
2. College of Defiance
3. The Avantguardian

1. Hold the Line
2. Keep it Simple

[Phhase]

Results are in, and boy is it all over the place!

Third Place is shared by the trio of Fnissalot's Muse Patron, Sengmeng's College of Musical Theater, and Crim the Cold's Oath of the Busker, with three votes each!

Second Place is a gnarly four-way tie between Edea's Way of the Sublime Chord, nickl_2000's Path of the Battlesinger, Krag Brightscale's Way of the Golden Bell, and my very own College of Defiance (yaaaaay!), with 6 votes each!

First Place, however, is decisively occupied by RickAsWriten's School of the Avantguardian, bringing the best 'tunes you've never heard of with 9 votes!


The Victor for the next theme is Five Stars with 8 votes!

Refine Mayhem continues into the next round with 7 votes.

Stay tuned for the next thread!