Epic Contest: Drowned Shore Foundry Style

torontodave · March 2016

Yikes. Just goes to show you, read EVERY WORD of a brief. ;D I had no idea it was only the first 10 who were eligible. ;D I guess thats why entries stopped rolling in =( I wondered why it slowed down so much!

Here are the first ten to reply in my thread
@vida44
@jazzman
@nimbus734
@josephskyrim
@cloudybison21
@fullmetalaricx
@bhurab
@smalltownhick
@hapipokori
@tvcity

Here are the two who arrived late (sorry guys!)
@peregr1nus
@joyousdeciever

peregr1nus · March 2016

torontodave said:
Yikes. Just goes to show you, read EVERY WORD of a brief. ;D I had no idea it was only the first 10 who were eligible. ;D I guess thats why entries stopped rolling in =( I wondered why it slowed down so much!

Here are the first ten to reply in my thread
@vida44
@jazzman
@nimbus734
@josephskyrim
@cloudybison21
@fullmetalaricx
@bhurab
@smalltownhick
@hapipokori
@tvcity

Here are the two who arrived late (sorry guys!)
@peregr1nus
@joyousdeciever

Arghh,I almost made it...now ill have to walk xD

eldarth · March 2016

peregr1nus said:

Arghh,I almost made it...now ill have to walk xD

If @strumslinger provides one (or more!) prizes for the Easter Egg contest we can extend it - so cross your fingers!

strumslinger · March 2016

I can do a Purple Owlbear for all entrants (so the three of you) and an additional three Owlbears for the Easter Egg contest.

eldarth · March 2016

strumslinger said:
I can do a Purple Owlbear for all entrants (so the three of you) and an additional three Owlbears for the Easter Egg contest.

Awesome!

Here's how we'll do the Easter Egg Continuation...

Next 10 entries in each (along with non-winners of first 10) will get a chance for an Owlbear.
Then, the next 10 in each after that (plus all previous non-winners) get a chance for an Owlbear.
...and then another 10 in each (plus all previous non-winnres) get chance for final Owlbear.

So the sooner you get your entries in the better your chances!

durynte · March 2016

So I finally adventured all three contest entries. Thanks to all of you for sharing your amazing creative works. No, I am not exagerating, to me adventuring well done foundries is the highlight of all efforts put into a character. I don't use pathing help, no minimap, quest tracker off, and spend quite some time there just enjoying Faerûn woderland.

I'm glad, I am not asked to name a contest winner. All I could say is, "Sage Ramiel" from @eldarth I would recommend to magic inclined characters, "Disembark" from @zachariah92 for military, and "Tidal Reflux" from @torontodave for rogueish minded characters. Thank you all for sharing them.

torontodave · March 2016

durynte said:
So I finally adventured all three contest entries. Thanks to all of you for sharing your amazing creative works. No, I am not exagerating, to me adventuring well done foundries is the highlight of all efforts put into a character. I don't use pathing help, no minimap, quest tracker off, and spend quite some time there just enjoying Faerûn woderland.

I'm glad, I am not asked to name a contest winner. All I could say is, "Sage Ramiel" from @eldarth I would recommend to magic inclined characters, "Disembark" from @zachariah92 for military, and "Tidal Reflux" from @torontodave for rogueish minded characters. Thank you all for sharing them.

What a great summation! ;D Thanks for playing =D =D

eldarth · March 2016

Easter Egg First Round Winner - @moxabanshy

Congrats! You just won a "Heavy Inferno Nightmare"
Look for it in your in-game mailbox shortly!

drkbodhi · March 2016

zachariah92 said:

jazzman#2455 said:

zachariah92 said:
@Eldarth, ten players submitted screenshots of the easter eggs of my foundry:

Listed by order:

@fullmetalaricx
@xlausbube
@narjima
@raptoah
@dreamlessblue
@bhurab
@bulzaj88
@coraiz
@joyousdeciever
@b0newyrm
@zachariah92 I believe @vida44 was the second to post a photo for you foundry, it was behind a spoiler tag.
Ups!!! right I'm so sorry. I didn't see the spoiler tag. So just in case new list here of the first 10:

@fullmetalaricx
@vida44
@xlausbube
@narjima
@raptoah
@dreamlessblue
@bhurab
@bulzaj88
@coraiz
@joyousdeciever

I'll actualize my list with everyone who found the easter eggs, just in case

@b0newyrm
@krysnyte
@ecigolini
@josephskyrim
@peregr1nus

Take in mind I'm in European time.

And me... since I was under lock and key when I posted it... it did not show until today. I was the 11th to post on your thread.

jazzman · March 2016

@moxabanshy, congrats.

One question with the easter egg contest, is there an eventual deadline to award the prizes or could we be waiting a while for each of the next levels to be met?

eldarth · March 2016

jazzman#2455 said:
@moxabanshy, congrats.

One question with the easter egg contest, is there an eventual deadline to award the prizes or could we be waiting a while for each of the next levels to be met?

We'll see how fast the entries come in -- we got the first ten pretty quick and we're almost (over halfway?) into the next.
I'm pretty much just killing time until SCL releases client patch #3 in the next couple months so it likely won't go on past that.

waryur · March 2016

Running those was superhappyfuntime! Thank you all for some amazing amazing awesome stuff! Each one felt like I was prepping for war, in three unique ways. Each had that creative author's eye for individual interpretation of what the ruin of the Drowned Shores should've been (sorry, but true!), none of them were alike but all of them were DEVASTATING. And I loved the special touches of flair each author brought that showcased the multitude of things that can be done in Foundry that adds life and flavor to any adventure. And saw some stuff/tricks not seen before, which is always so much fun - there were moments of surprise, and downright awe of omgthat'ssocoolwhydidn'tithinkofthat. None of them were boring, all were action packed and had well balanced fights. And showed, yet again, that underwater adventuring IS TOTALLY POSSIBLE within the existing game engine (lookin' right at ya Cryptic!).
Now I wanna go build something.

zachariah92 · March 2016

waryur said:
Running those was superhappyfuntime! Thank you all for some amazing amazing awesome stuff! Each one felt like I was prepping for war, in three unique ways. Each had that creative author's eye for individual interpretation of what the ruin of the Drowned Shores should've been (sorry, but true!), none of them were alike but all of them were DEVASTATING. And I loved the special touches of flair each author brought that showcased the multitude of things that can be done in Foundry that adds life and flavor to any adventure. And saw some stuff/tricks not seen before, which is always so much fun - there were moments of surprise, and downright awe of omgthat'ssocoolwhydidn'tithinkofthat. None of them were boring, all were action packed and had well balanced fights. And showed, yet again, that underwater adventuring IS TOTALLY POSSIBLE within the existing game engine (lookin' right at ya Cryptic!).
Now I wanna go build something.

Thank you @wayrur, you already know your words are really appreciated.

melinden · March 2016

I was miserably sick today, so I hope to have the results tomorrow evening.

eldarth · March 2016

melinden said:
I was miserably sick today, so I hope to have the results tomorrow evening.

Feel better, and no rush -- contest has been delayed for something like 6 months anyway - a few days or so is no biggie.

melinden · March 2016

Well I get home today and get ready to play and...the catalog isn't republished. I am happy to go with @essenti and @wayrur votes if you would prefer the results sooner. Otherwise I will wait for the contest entries to appear.

..and here I thought I was being so good by not playing them before judging. That will teach me. Not sure what it will teach me, but something, I am sure.

torontodave · March 2016

lol. lets hope the rest of the foundry makes a return tomorrow. =X

zachariah92 · March 2016

Fine for me.

What about the promised owlbears @strumslinger ?

reiwulf · March 2016

just to have an idea, how many plays do approximately have the entries? I think they were featured, right? I want to know if others are actually playing them or if it's just us XD

torontodave · March 2016

zachs has 250+ plays, me and eldarth under 100 .. I guess people just play the first one in the list. ;D

zachariah92 · March 2016

Mine had more than 600 plays. As @torontodave says, probably the people just play the first one in the list. :P

iandarksword · March 2016

One of the things we (@Tipa and others) discovered during the Cult of the Dragon contest was that there was a majority of players that chose the first quest in the list. Quests listed farther down received fewer and fewer plays the farther down they were.

eldarth · March 2016

iandarksword said:
One of the things we (@Tipa and others) discovered during the Cult of the Dragon contest was that there was a majority of players that chose the first quest in the list. Quests listed farther down received fewer and fewer plays the farther down they were.

Yeah - 'cause no one would have ever expected that -- and "shuffling" the featured list would take a horribly complex 1 or 2 lines of code. Cryptic brain trust FTW as usual.

cloudybison21 · March 2016

are we going to get those rewards?, or this event has been thrown out of the water?

eldarth · March 2016

cloudybison21 said:
are we going to get those rewards?, or this event has been thrown out of the water?

I updated the original post, and posted a winner (@moxabanshy) earlier in this topic.
We haven't seen enough entries for a round 2 prize yet.

joyousdeciever · March 2016

any word on next round of entrants?? i did 2 of the 3 quests making it into first round of one ... and second round on the other... does that count as 2 entries into round 2draw???

eldarth · March 2016

joyousdeciever said:
any word on next round of entrants?? i did 2 of the 3 quests making it into first round of one ... and second round on the other... does that count as 2 entries into round 2draw???

Yep, each quest counts as seperate entries and anyone that didn't win a round rolls into next round.
I don't think we've gotten 10 more entries in each quest yet to make a round 2.

zachariah92 · March 2016

And we still need that they reload all the foundries again, it will take some time...

joyousdeciever · March 2016

guess soon as they come available i will have to do the third one ! help get on to round 2

melinden · April 2016

Just checking in guys, the two other judges are in disagreement so I am going to have play and vote. Of course, I can't play them..

We could bring in another judge who has played all of them but I don't want @strumslinger to post an update to the foundry contest post when the publicity would send people to the foundry just to be unable to find the contest quests.

Epic Contest: Drowned Shore Foundry Style

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