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Iron Players Championship at Gencon

About IRON Tournaments

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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:53
What is the Iron Player Championship Tournament The Iron Player Championship is a single game tournament at at Gencon each year where over 60 players compete to determine who is the best Dungeons and Dragons player. Con RPG tournaments have become formulaic: Three rounds, hundreds of players, judges instead of dungeon masters, and linear adventures. The Iron Player Championship deviates from the formula, throwing players into a challenging epic adventure where they decide the course of the story and their characters. In the mean time, they are judged by three Iron Dungeonmasters as they battle in tactical combats, mind-bending puzzles and moral challenges. The tournament takes place in a single seven and a half hour setting with winners awarded on an individual and team bas... Read more about the Iron Player Tournament What is the DM Gauntlet The Gauntlet’s a 2-headed dragon DM contest where u and a partner join DM prowess to out-design, out-charisma and out-DM other teams. U receive a loose non-linear quest structure and Cthullian boss encounter, then w/ your IronDM mentor, fill the blanks, build and run an epic 3-hour adventure in the Iron Player tourney. . 1. They will have to make up a mini adventure given several adventure hooks. 2. They will have to add their own style and flair and DM a group through a deadly Prepared min-module Is this like Iron Dungeon Master? As we are all previous winners and competitors in the Iron DM Tournament, we have designed the DM's Gauntlet to test a different set of skills as the Iron Dungeon Master Event. The gauntlet forces you to work with another DM and... Read more about The DMs Gauntlet What is Iron Team Championships This is the newest tournament to the Iron family. We have seperated the team rating aspects of the Iron Player Tournament and expanded it into the The Iron Team Championship. The Iron Team Championship is a team only tournament. Your team is put in an open world environment and given a single goal. You then must go from dungeon (DM) to dungeon (DM) attempting to accomplish that goal better than any other team. All the while, you are rated on your level of accomplishment, your teamwork and your ability to think outside pandora's box. Read more about the New Iron Team Championship What is Iron Dungeonmaster Tournament The Iron Dungeonmaster Tournament is the tournament that seperates the weak from the strong. It is where the Iron DM All-Stars got their start and makes for amazing tournament. It is the culmanating part of the Iron Weekend of Events. If you would like to know more about the Iron DM Tournament, go to http://www.irondm.com ---We are They Who Game. Those who do not know the majesty of RPG – the groundlings, the troglodytes, who have never held a cool d20 in their hand and tempted fate – they have lived only one life. Whilst we walk the paths of hundreds: from warriors to wizards, as angels and demons, dragons and giants. We are They Who Game, and we are the lords of our imagination. Even among us enlightened souls, there are those who rise a... Read more about the Iron DM Tournament Whether you're a player or a Dungeon Master, we have events that will test your Role Playing fortitude, will and possibly reflexes if we get into dice throwing. Iron Player Championship 2011 Part 1: Invasion Cthulhu 8/4/2011 12:00:00 PM RPG1118633 Duration is 4 Hrs The living world Cthulhu has turned Golarion & its people to twisted atrocities. How will you, a peasant, save the world? Rescue the gods or find the sacred Hellknight artifact? Part 1 of a back to back player/team tourney. Make your PC & play through a non-linear, non-elimination adventure as you are judged/DMâ€™d by 4 Iron DMs on decisions, teamwork and roleplaying. Prizes for part 1 and 2 with a grand prize. Playing Part 2 isn't required. Iron Player Championship 2011 Part 2: Annihilate Cthulhu ... Read more about the 2011 Gencon Schedule
Last Updated on Friday, 22 April 2011 18:39

Designer Journal 2: Abberations are so much fun to work with

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Friday, 22 April 2011 18:00

Designing the possible adversaries for the boss fight is one of the most difficult tasks. Thankfully, knowing that every boss will be some form of aberration helps. Aberrations are pretty freform when it comes to design. A mindflayer and a Beholder could not be different, but yet they are in the same wierd, twisted family.

This year, we've designed 4 really good bosses, that will scale depending on which part the player is one. There will only be one or two environmental hazards. Last year, we had 5 to 8 environmental hazards which often made the room more dangerous than the creature. This year we wanted to reverse the approach and make the focus on the deadly beings who have divided up Golarion. We didn't venture too far off the norm. We took interesting takes on the mindflayer, beholder, aboloth and Shaggoth.

This year's tournament features boss battles that can only be defeated by 2 teams working together. The main battles, versus cthullhu, will require the help of every single adventurer. As previously stated, each team works seperately at their table, but the creature will alternate appearances between the two tables.

There will be a main table battling Cthulhu. This table will receive powerful items and abilities from other tables depending on how "well" the other tables perform.

Entry #416

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Friday, 22 April 2011 17:46

The progress we have made in the last year is remarkable. We've managed to discover several sets of maps that may help us. We've decided to split the army into two regimans. One will take the map found in the vaultsof Kpan and search for a Hellknight facility where they performed their most secret magical research. Apparently notes hinted that the Hellknights captures the creature, and the creature was not killed and were fashioning a weapon from it. If the facility is still up and running, who knows, but that weapon can be quite useful.

The other group will search for whatever is left of the city of Abbadon. The goal, to find the starstone, the only artifact that is believed to still be able to communicate with the gods. It's more ofa longshot, but it is the reason we began this.

The monstrosities of the world have grown worse. Every day our army diminishes in size, not from death, but from the insanity the horrors of a world so twisted. It has become standard practice to put down anyone who has gone too far overboard.

Over the last few months, the planet, the alien, the creature still feeds of Golarion. But we have realized, the scholars, that he is more than feeding, that he is transforming. Strange alien cities have emerged, temples, the structure is enough to drive a person crazy.

Hopefully, we will be able to still find the things we need, to things to restore Golarion.

Gauntlet Designer Journal 2

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Friday, 22 April 2011 17:56

Earlier this week we talked about suing the voice for copying our Mentor idea. Seriously, that is what this year's tournament is going to be. During the Gauntlets, each gauntlet dm is paired with an iron dm who will mentor with them and work with them. Though the Iron dms are not competing they will have a stake on the gauntlets and helping them craft the best adventures with the constraints they have.

This year, we've really reduced the restraints. Each Gauntlet will receive about 5 pages of material and that's it. Enough to follow the structure of the adventure, enough to make sure the IPT players are properly challenged, but with enough flexability to make sure that the guantlet dms have a lot of influence on their section and location.