Yorker Hills (Squeen)
Twin Falls (Squeen)
I am reviewing these in the order they were submitted. For my review criteria, please check out this post. All reviews will (probably) contain *SPOILERS*; you have been warned! Because these are short (two page) adventures, it is my intention to keep the reviews brief.
Two entries received from the same author, although no author's name appears on either submission (I checked with Gibson who told me they were both penned by Squeen).
Likewise, neither lists a system of use. Or a level range. In fact, both seem to simply be excerpts from some campaign manual.
I'm disqualifying both for multiple rules transgressions (including too few encounter areas). Sorry...maybe next time just focus on doing ONE site correctly?
Not to be argumentative, but hard disagree on rules transgression "call it 8-24" is vastly different than MUST BE 8-24. Lazy review.
ReplyDeleteI'll own that.
DeleteI've got near 40 reviews to get through, and I'm a busy guy...I don't get paid to read and analyze these things. What's more, I don't particularly want to drag this out...the submission deadline was in December; do we want these reviews to go through March? So any EXCUSE I can come up with to disqualify an entry is one I'm going to seize on.
Your entries give me MORE than one excuse. So...thanks?
You can't say an adventure is compatible with a TSR-era system (one of the rule stipulations) if you don't name a system for it.
This looks like you just cut a couple scenarios from an existing publication, rather than creating something specific for the contest. Fine. But you can't even bother to throw a level range on it? Hell...you couldn't even be bothered to change the page numbers? Or put your NAME on your entries?
My review was lazy. So were your submissions.
I gave that information to Commodore with the submissions. Felt less ugly than adding a cover page to what otherwise fit nicely in a compact two-pages spread. Truthfully, you personally might have liked to see that info (you prerogative as a judge), but it wasn't actually stated as required by the rules. Read them again. I did.
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Yes, these are excerpts from my campaign book---again, why is that illegal? I guarantee I spent more time (proportionally) sprucing them up than you did on executing your task. If you didn't want to do the job, why sign up? Why piss on fellow hobbyists over minor technicalities? I know I'm not the only one you played "gotcha" with to avoid effort. Being a stickler in a friendly contest doesn't make you look like a hard-ass, just a plain old run-of-the-mill ass.
I knew your measure from posts from Prince's blog. Can't say in too surprised by any of this.
Chow.