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Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« on: February 23, 2009, 03:37:03 PM »
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:


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Ingredient:
The Disciple of Metal


On 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.
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 03:44:41 PM »
I'll judge this one.

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2009, 04:03:58 PM »
Actually participating. Got a build already.
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2009, 08:49:55 AM »
Bump. Is no one interested in this?

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2009, 09:37:28 AM »
I liked the other one, so i'll give it a try :D
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2009, 10:25:12 AM »
I think the reason why there are not more responses to this is the choice of ingredient.  In effect, you are asking the judges the use licorice in their dishes: while many find the taste appealing, others find it appalling. The disciple of metal is a type of flavor that is an acquired taste, and not many chefs will want to include it in their cooking.  likewise, not as many judges will want to have to try and judge the taste of something they never liked to begin with. 
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2009, 02:18:41 PM »
ill try ... but right now WoTC is doing Maintenance.. so i dont Know what the Ingredient is... if someone could re-post it here... there would be no problem

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2009, 02:47:57 PM »
Uhhhh.... I wanna participate... but I might not have time!

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2009, 03:25:24 PM »
ill try ... but right now WoTC is doing Maintenance.. so i dont Know what the Ingredient is... if someone could re-post it here... there would be no problem

 :D
It's down for me too, but here's the basics....

- PrC tailored for bards (requires Bardic Music, most class features based on music)
- Half-casting advancement, spells count as Divine
- Heavy Metal themed.
- Can use instrument as a martial weapon (now your Axe is also an axe!)
- Gain a number of "euphonies" (Heavy Metal themed awesome buff stuff, like DR or Animate Dead, as special uses of Bardic Music)
- Gain a number of "cacophonies" (Heavy Metal themed awesome offensive stuff, like Dominate Person or sonic damage attacks, as special uses of Bardic Music)


I've DMed for a Disciple of Metal, and the player had really weak optimization skills, but still managed to be effective.  Some of the euphonies/cacophonies are potentially exploitable, and there's a few other class features that have optimization potential, but in general the class is pretty well balanced IMO.  It's definitely one of my favorite homebrews, both for awesome flavor and effective crunch.  The challenge is that there's obviously no outside support for it, there aren't any handbooks for it or any famous tricks, there isn't much of a logical continuation of the class after the 10 levels (same problem as most PrCs really).

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2009, 07:09:21 PM »
I'll participate.

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2009, 09:39:49 PM »
Edit: Withdrawing my request to join as I realize I do not have time.
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2009, 02:13:08 AM »
I'm trying for the greatest negative score in this challenge.  If nobody else enters, I'll win by default.

Blue mage 10/ Rainbow servant 10.

Originality: None whatsoever.
Power: Your character appears.  One round later his head explodes from cleric spells exceeding spells known by a ridiculous number.  Yeah.
Use of Secret ingredient: No.
Street legality: Low.


Actually, could you alter the topic title to make it clear what's being done?  I was getting all excited for a special challenge (no items! homebrew only!  Final destination!), and then wasn't.
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2009, 05:30:06 PM »
Mad_Linguist, I think the challenge is to optimize the Disciple of Metal, not any homebrew class.

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2009, 06:42:04 PM »
Mad_Linguist, I think the challenge is to optimize the Disciple of Metal, not any homebrew class.
Yeah, I realized that partway through working on a BM optimization, which made me a little irritated at myself.  Which is why I threw together the least optimal BM thing I could, since I didn't want to read through the entirety of the variant bard.  I might at some point make a DisM Priest of the Unseen Host reflavoring for the challenge, but that depends on time available.
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2009, 01:41:16 AM »
Just to clarify:

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2009, 03:29:16 AM »
I think the reason why there are not more responses to this is the choice of ingredient.  In effect, you are asking the judges the use licorice in their dishes: while many find the taste appealing, others find it appalling. The disciple of metal is a type of flavor that is an acquired taste, and not many chefs will want to include it in their cooking.  likewise, not as many judges will want to have to try and judge the taste of something they never liked to begin with. 

No, what he's asking is for you to colour the food pink and add all kinds of other "lulz" stuff into it. Admit that you laughed when you read through that PrC. :p

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2009, 08:07:23 AM »
read some of it, but it was a bit TL;DR
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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2009, 09:25:02 PM »
It's a lot cooler if you recognize the song titles.

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2009, 03:20:56 AM »
Despite the fact I think this PrC is silly and whatnot, the thread itself makes me laugh. Specifically the first reply; "Most. Hardcore PrC. EVER." The sheer irony and lulz in that statement blows my brains on the wall.

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Re: Iron Chef Challenge Special Edition: Homebrew
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2009, 02:02:23 PM »
I JUST NOW had a character concept, but it's too late to join and I wouldn't get much time to work on it anyway. :(
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