The deadline for joining is Friday the 27th, and the deadline for sending in your build will be Friday the 6th. Thats a total of 11 days, which should prove enough. These events might be delayed if problems occur.
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Updated Rules
1. Menu: For most challenges, the "secret ingredient" will be drawn from Core plus Completes. There will, from time to time, be special challenges that showcase secret ingredients from other books--for example, the XPH.
2. Kitchen: Competitors will be free to use any official 3.5 material in constructing their builds.
3. Cooking Time: Contests will be announced a week in advance, to give people time to sign up. The "secret ingredient" will be announced from the outset. Contestants will have one week to create their builds and email them to the Chairman (most likely me, at least for the first few.) Builds will then be posted simultaneously, to avoid copying.
4. Judging will be based on the following criteria, with each build rated from 1 (very poor) to 5 (exemplary) in each area:
Style, Control, Damage and Aggression Originality, Power, Use of Secret Ingredient.
5. Builds will be posted anonymously, in order to avoid the potential of bias towards a particular competitor.
6. Please don't post or speculate on possible builds until the "reveal," in order to avoid spoiling the surprise if a particular competitor is producing a build along those lines.
7. Leadership is banned; we're producing a meal, not a seven-course banquet for a hundred diners.
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Judges:
Challengers:
Ingredient:
The Disciple of MetalOn submissions:just PM the character sheet to me, in
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=178.msg1955#msg1955 "Standard Character Sheet" format (first one). Anything else, and its annoying to reconfigure it. After I'm done sorting through them, I'll mail 'em off to the judges (via PM) and have 'em do their thing.
Please submit snapshots of the build at levels 5, 10, 15, 20 and a "sweet spot" of your choosing. A precis of how the character plays at each spot and tactics it uses is appreciated, but not mandatory.
Characters should use 28 points buy.
Cheese level:These are, after all, the CharOp boards. Mild cheese is perfectly fine, but as any connoisseur knows, too much cheese can utterly overpower the flavour of the dish, ruining its subtlety. Please, no cheese fondues, but a light garnish of melted cheddar or brie can often work well.