 It’s finally over, I’ve reviewed them all save my own. That was twice as many sites as last time, which was a massive task…in (rough) submission order, we have:
The Caverns of Despair Sausages of the Devil Swine The Lair of the Lamia Troll Market The Cleft in the Crag Owlbear Hill The Calid Cryo-Caves Mound of Akbarj The Fall of Saddleroodle Pit of the Red Wyrm The Pit of the Muirneag Tower of the Necromancer The Copper Circle Crimson Garden of the Crocodile Spirits The Herbalist's Son Scarborough Shire Moldiwarp's Burrow Barbican of Blood Stables of Zothay The Two Spires The Tower in the Lake Foundry Ovens of the Bitter Paramore The Bridge of Ptelemegesser Tor of the Vulture Lord Warm Caves of the T'sai Dragons Wailing Tower Arena AEmilia The Grand Retreat Galactic Funtime As before, the final selection will be based on averaging ranked-choice judgements from myself and the four other judges, who are busy making their own reviews now: JB finished his reviews before even my own got done. Scott M is going astonishingly in-depth for each one. Grützi wrapped up a semester halfway through and so he’s been busy but still is rolling out reviews steadily. Owen E is doing batch reviews again on his channel. As before, a big appeal for submitters has been seeing multiple different perspectives on their adventures, because every one of us has our own tastes and preferences. That being said, the other judges are certainly going above and beyond the call of duty here, I’m impressed with the levels of effort. No matter how many submissions these contests receive, I commit to always fully reviewing every entry with my general set of standards, other judges are welcome to batch-review with less of a word count needed. Impressive work. I once again really appreciated all of the entries, the levels of creativity, effort, and sheer exuberant love of the game on display made this a delight. Again the variety of different takes within (and in a couple cases slightly outside) the contest strictures impressed me, and I’m going to have a lot of usable content, personally, coming out of this. Sometimes, there’s even too much good stuff in the entries… The biggest thing I think I’m going to going to narrow down next year is going back to two pages and have a focus much firmer on the “single session”, there are several entries here that I really liked, but that would have been best with about two more pages and turned into a proper multi-visit dungeon, which is wonderful and needed thing as well. Please note what I did say about two more pages…98% of the modules released in the market these days are over-written, and cutting should be embraced by almost every writer…but probably if you’ve exhausted the alphabet in keying, you’re outside of the site designation and into the wild land of fuller dungeon. I hope every single submitter takes the feedback, good and bad, and improves what they’re written and releases it out into the wild. That being said, we have a difficult choice ahead, narrowing all this down to just eight sites for the final compilation. I can’t wait to see all the other judges’ final ratings, so watch this space...soon we’re going to once more crown a King of the Adventure Sites and give the community another wonderful collection of adventure.
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Jacob72
2/19/2025 05:23:29 pm
What really excites me is that you have already decided to do the contest again next year. :-) Leave a Reply. |
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