Comment on Contest 12 - Identity Crisis by *Lolth-Scourge

I can do two things in English: made short funny story or write a long peom (rather spoken epic word) for the contest. Is this qualify?

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ATTENTION PLEASE LS AND CLUB MEMBERS

I don't believe we wrote anything in the contest about an extra point being added for any reason. I have no intention of causing upset, this can be hidden afterward. ^_^

That's a little unfair isn't it considering the stigma attached to drow is a DnD thing. Even if it's a free fiction of the artists creation and they have never touched DnD or or RP it's hard to prove and the influence of loving drow is still a DnD based thing. Saying that would almost make the contest void.

If you mean an extra point for an ORIGINAL setting as in not a wizards copyright setting (Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron etc...) you should really state that over DnD. After all a lot of us have complete original worlds free of wizards influence that we take our art from.

Besides, when we created the contest, again, Onisyr and I said nothing about extra points for any reason. Maybe you should have asked if it was in the spirit of the idea - there are other things more appropriate to up the challenge.

Once again, feel free to hide this once the issue has been cleared up ^_^ Just thought this should be looked at ASAP and notes take awhile. We are both sending notes as well.

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"Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away"
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A tough one... still, I'll try to crack it!

I concur with what Azrael said and also feel free to hide this comment once the matter is cleared up.

We weren't aware of the extra point being added until reading this deviation. the extra point in itself isn't the issue, but the bonus requirement does potentially undermine what we had in mind for the contest.

The contest is based on the concept of drow as portrayed in a DnD setting of some kind whether a published or original setting. If the bonus is for setting it in something besides FR, Eberron, Greyhawk, etc., that's fine but it needs to be in a DnD setting or the spirit of the contest is lost.

I know a lot of people have their own original dark elves in original settings not based on DnD (including myself) and I think the bonus itself is a good idea for any other contest but it does not match the intention of this specific contest. Granted the DnD requirement wasn't specified in our rules, but we also weren't made aware that any changes were going to be made to the rules we made.

That is just our thoughts on this right now. Like Azrael, I will be sending a note to the club to work this out, though we are posting here to make our views immediately known.

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Alright it has been taken down. Sorry for the inconvience. ^_^

*DrowKat

Alright it has been taken down. Sorry for the inconvience. ^_^

*DrowKat

Yes, as long as it completes the writing requirements above.

*DrowKat

So would it be ok to borrow a friend's created drow character as the main character with the identity crisis for this piece, with their explicit permission of course, to enter this contest? I know of someone that HAS a drow just like that and we were RPing out them finding out they WERE a drow with my character trying to explain it.....so it'd be perfect but I wanted to ensure if I got the person's permission that I could write or draw a piece using their character as the main drow discovering what/whom they are, if it is not my original character but theirs with their permission?

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BURN IT ALL, AND CALL IT BETSY!

Sadness at the changes. Guess I won't be entering my story after all.

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