So I'm just running this with the hope that we get the hero we deserve.
They may or may not show up, no one expressed interest in judging. A guest judge will arise from the masses to judge this according to the rubric. The poster's who are most helpful will be announced after a week, and have their name highlighted in bold and in a font color other than black! The guest judge will try to remain interactive in the process, because the contest element to me is secondary to extracting the maximum amount of versatility and power out of the feat resource.īecause I have little use for dragon mag optimization in my own life, I am running optimize this feat #17 a little differently. The rubric by which points are assigned to posters is developed below. That score represents how helpful or novel the poster was in their analysis of a feat's uses, abuses, interactions, and limitations. After a week or so, the thread will be evaluated and participants will be assigned a score. They may post as many times as they want, just like any thread where you volunteer your ideas. I'm developing this pseudo-contest on the fly, so rules are subject to change.Īll participants in the optimization endeavor post directly into the thread.
Arbitrary credit seems to be important to sway people's incentives, so I have devised the following system to award credit to people who help explore the possibilities of how to use a feat. So this is the "Optimize this feat" discussion, wherein we work together to plumb the clever and amazing uses for feats in ways the designers could have only dreamt of. Also, as a team, we can collectively push the limits of our apparent intelligence. However, there is just something really satisfying about the interplay of feats and rules to produce illogical and unintended effects. Sometimes their utility is circumspect and sometimes they just stink.
They are little alterations to the rules and they interface with class features in some really fun and strange ways.