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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 15:24:26 GMT
As Kieran was working from memory when he started this thread, some of the rules that have become the norm here are not part of the traditional set-up for Rare Entries contests. The most significant differences with 'our' ruleset are that scores are added rather than multiplied, and the algorithm for scoring incorrect answers has been replaced with a simpler and (usually) harsher calculation. Both of these can significantly affect scoring (the difference they made until Sylas shook things up with his entry was remarkable), and I thought it would be interesting to rank everybody according to both systems. Thus, in the box cage we have scores determined by the Fantazine forum system, while the tall cage contains scores according to conventional Rare Entries rules. I) Describe something that causes the gain of exactly 1 Fear point.Discovering that you are locked inside the Shaitan room – 2 (Per, Kieran) Discovering that you are locked inside the Balthus room – 2 (Trialmaster, Adrius) Falling into the cellar – 2 (Petch, Vastariner) Lady Margaret talks to you through her painting – 1 (Gabe Fandango) The thought of a ceremony that involves human sacrifice - 1 (Scouserob) The thought of sitting in the darkness all night - 1 (Hallucination) Curtains in the Mammon Room that open and shut seemingly by themselves - 1 (Peter) When you turn towards the mirror in the reception room and notice it casts no reflection of you – 1 (Peter’s wife) Seeing the word 'Find' being written across a piece of paper - 1 (Sylas) WRONGEnter the Shaitan room – 1 (Evilwizard) Evilwizard's answer falls foul of the old 'correlation does not equal causation' issue: the Fear gain is caused by the words you hear upon entering the room, rather than entering the room specifically. By forum rules, that scores a rather shocking 14 points, but the standard Rare Entries rules use a different formula: The median of: - the number of entrants (13) - the square root of that number, rounded up to an integer (4) - double the highest score that anyone would have on this question if all answers were deemed correct (in this instance, 4)
This gives a 'wrong answer' score of 4 for this question. Acceptable answers not given include being attacked by bats, seeing a sheet rise up in the air, becoming paranoid about the Earl's intentions, and further Poltergeist-related shenanigans in the Mammon room. II) Name a character you may encounter in or under the house.Kelnor – 3 (Gabe Fandango, Hallucination, Peter) Franklins - 2 (Petch, Kieran) Dirk – 2 (Per, Adrius) Rafferty – 2 (Scouserob, Trialmaster) Brother Isaacson – 1 (Vastariner) Orville - 1 (Evilwizard) Brother William - 1 (Peter’s wife) Shekou - 1 (Sylas) Nothing too contentious here. The only eligible answer not put forward by anyone was Mordana, though until Sylas' answers came in, it appeared that everybody had forgotten about Shekou. Running totalsBox cage1) Peter's wife, Sylas - 2 3) Scouserob, Vastariner - 3 5) Gabe Fandango, Petch, Per, Kieran, Trialmaster, Hallucination, Peter, Adrius - 4 13) Evilwizard - 15 Tall cage1) Peter's wife, Sylas - 1 3) Scouserob, Vastariner - 2 5) Gabe Fandango, Hallucination, Peter - 3 8) Petch, Per, Kieran, Trialmaster, Adrius, Evilwizard - 4
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Post by kieran on Oct 31, 2023 15:40:27 GMT
Shouldn't Evilwizard be on 5 rather than 4 points in the tall cage?
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 15:46:01 GMT
III) Describe a way of regaining Stamina in House of Hell. Resting in the Belial room – 3 (Kieran, Scouserob, Peter) Drinking dogs' water – 3 (Petch, Trialmaster, Sylas) Eating poisoned cheese – 2 (Gabe Fandango, Peter’s wife) Bedtime snack – 2 (Vastariner, Hallucination) Resting in the Diabolus room - 1 (Per) Eat some dried fish - 1 (Evilwizard) Eating cake - 1 (Adrius)
The book does specify that eating cheese from the larder restores Stamina as well as killing your character, so it's a valid (if bizarre) answer, and Gabe and Peter's wife are unfortunate in having both seized upon this oddity.
There were a few correct answers not given: drinking brandy, and eating bread or meat from the larder.
Running totals Box cage 1) Peter's wife - 4 2) Per, Vastariner, Adrius, Sylas - 5 6) Gabe Fandango, Scouserob, Hallucination - 6 9) Petch, Kieran, Trialmaster, Peter - 7 13) Evilwizard - 16
Tall cage 1) Peter's wife - 2 2) Sylas - 3 3) Per, Vastariner, Evilwizard, Adrius - 4 7) Gabe Fandango, Scouserob, Hallucination - 6 10) Peter - 9 11) Petch, Kieran, Trialmaster - 12
Is anybody developing a preference for one scoring system over the other, yet?
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 15:47:18 GMT
Shouldn't Evilwizard be on 5 rather than 4 points in the tall cage? In the 'tall cage' system, scores are multiplied, not added. 4 x 1 = 4
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Post by adrius on Oct 31, 2023 15:53:08 GMT
Is anybody developing a preference for one scoring system over the other, yet? It certainly seems that the Box cage (thread default) scoring strongly penalizes wrong answers, but the Tall cage (rare answers) is extremely harsh on repeated answers, especially across multiple questions, while the penalty for being wrong then depends on the worst-performing (i.e. repeated) correct answer, and in our case is bounded between 4 and 13. Is there an additional penalty for repeated wrong answers though?
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Post by kieran on Oct 31, 2023 15:53:50 GMT
Shouldn't Evilwizard be on 5 rather than 4 points in the tall cage? In the 'tall cage' system, scores are multiplied, not added. 4 x 1 = 4 Ah, my mistake
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 16:31:30 GMT
IV) Give a name which is on the name-plate of one of the upstairs rooms. Eblis - 2 (Petch, Vastariner) Azazel - 2 (Evilwizard, Sylas) Erasmus – 1 (Gabe Fandango) Apollyon – 1 (Per) Tuttivillus - 1 (Kieran) Shaitan - 1 (Scouserob) Belial – 1 (Trialmaster) Asmodeus - 1 (Hallucination) Mephisto - 1 (Peter) Diabolus - 1 (Peter’s wife) Balthus - 1 (Adrius)
Mentioning the name-plates in the question was a bit of a careless move, as the book doesn't always specify that a room's name is revealed by a name-plate. Still, it is a reasonable inference to make, so I'm not going into "There's no mention of a name-plate on the Apollyon room door, so you could have had the name telepathically revealed to you by the ghost, which means it's a wrong answer!"-type speculation. I actually mentioned name-plates to avoid the sort of arguing that arose when I posed a similar question in a Rare Entries contest many years ago. Back then I'd asked for the name of a 'named' room, and somebody tried to make a case that 'kitchen' was the name of a room, and therefore the kitchen was named, so it should be an acceptable answer.
Also eligible but unmentioned were Mammon and Abbadon, the latter of which may have been avoided because of the prominence it gains thanks to the clue in the condensation.
Running totals Box cage 1) Peter's wife - 5 2) Per, Adrius - 6 4) Gabe Fandango, Vastariner, Scouserob, Hallucination, Sylas - 7 9) Kieran, Trialmaster, Peter - 8 12) Petch - 9 13) Evilwizard - 18
Tall cage 1) Peter's wife - 2 2) Per, Adrius - 4 4) Gabe Fandango, Scouserob, Hallucination, Sylas - 6 8) Vastariner, Evilwizard - 8 10) Peter - 9 11) Kieran, Trialmaster - 12 13) Petch - 24
Until Sylas' answers came in, the tall cage system put Evilwizard in joint second place with Per and Adrius. Unique answers do a lot of heavy lifting under the traditional ruleset.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 16:40:23 GMT
Is anybody developing a preference for one scoring system over the other, yet? It certainly seems that the Box cage (thread default) scoring strongly penalizes wrong answers, but the Tall cage (rare answers) is extremely harsh on repeated answers, especially across multiple questions, while the penalty for being wrong then depends on the worst-performing (i.e. repeated) correct answer, and in our case is bounded between 4 and 13. Is there an additional penalty for repeated wrong answers though? The cumulative effect of multiple wrong answers can be pretty devastating. If someone had managed to give a wrong answer every time in this quiz, their Box cage score after question IV would be 56, but their Tall cage score would be 576. And once you start getting to the questions where there's more overlap of answers, the wrong answer penalty goes up quite a bit.
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Post by Per on Oct 31, 2023 16:41:47 GMT
Is anybody developing a preference for one scoring system over the other, yet? I've been planning a game since about, uh, 2009 or so? that I'd like to run here at some point if possible, and if so, I had certainly intended to use the old calculation for wrong answers but combining it with the additive system, plus the odd other wrinkle that may or may not come into play.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 17:19:33 GMT
V) List a scoring answer for the torturer’s test that gets less than 5 points. Man in white - 3 (Kieran, Vastariner, Adrius) Apollyon – 2 (Trialmaster, Hallucination) Kris – 2 (Gabe Fandango, Per) Mammon - 2 (Evilwizard, Sylas) Diabolus - 2 (Scouserob, Peter) Man in grey - 1 (Petch) Azazel - 1 (Peter’s wife)
Acceptable answers not given were Asmodeus and Shaitan.
Running totals Box cage 1) Peter's wife - 6 2) Per - 8 3) Gabe Fandango, Scouserob, Hallucination, Adrius, Sylas - 9 8) Petch, Vastariner, Trialmaster, Peter - 10 12) Kieran - 11 13) Evilwizard - 20
Tall cage 1) Peter's wife - 2 2) Per - 8 3) Gabe Fandango, Scouserob, Hallucination, Adrius, Sylas - 12 8) Evilwizard - 16 9) Peter - 18 10) Petch, Vastariner, Trialmaster - 24 13) Kieran - 36
For the second question running, Sylas collides with Evilwizard on what had been an unique answer.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 17:52:14 GMT
VI) Name or otherwise identify an opponent with a Skill score that is an odd number.Shekou (also referred to as Hunchback) – 7 (Gabe Fandango, Petch, Per, Vastariner, Hallucination, Peter’s wife, Adrius) First Fire Sprite - 2 (Kieran, Trialmaster) Second Fire Sprite - 1 (Evilwizard) First Great Dane - 1 (Scouserob) First Zombie - 1 (Peter) Second Skeleton - 1 (Sylas) Acceptable answers not given were White-haired Man, Zombie (the one from the Balthus room rather than the eligible one from the Shaitan room) and Great Dane (the first one in the cellar, not the Abbadon room - it is theoretically possible to fight both within the course of one adventure, so they must be separate dogs). until Sylas' answers came in, it appeared that everybody had forgotten about Shekou. Well, he might have been forgotten back in question II, but not here. Apologies to the seven players who chose him for this question if my earlier observation raised false hopes of a low score. [Cackles like Steve Jackson after penning a 'doomed either way' decision.]After the first 3 sets of answers came in, all giving the same answer, I actually went back and re-checked that there were other viable answers. Then people did start sending in some of the others, but Shekou's popularity continued to increase too, leading to quite a shake-up in the rankings. Running totalsBox cage1) Scouserob, Sylas - 10 3) Peter - 11 4) Trialmaster - 12 5) Kieran, Peter's wife - 13 7) Per - 15 8) Gabe Fandango, Hallucination, Adrius - 16 11) Petch, Vastariner - 17 13) Evilwizard -21 Tall cage1) Scouserob, Sylas - 12 3) Peter's wife - 14 4) Evilwizard - 16 5) Peter - 18 6) Trialmaster - 48 7) Per - 56 8) Kieran - 72 9) Gabe Fandango, Hallucination, Adrius - 84 12) Petch, Vastariner - 168
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Post by Per on Oct 31, 2023 18:04:28 GMT
I picked Shekou for being so prominent nobody in their right mind would choose him, considered swapping to the Second Skeleton because skeleton, but stuck with my (and everybody else's) first impulse.
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Post by sylas on Oct 31, 2023 20:21:42 GMT
I picked Shekou for being so prominent nobody in their right mind would choose him, considered swapping to the Second Skeleton because skeleton, but stuck with my (and everybody else's) first impulse. That was my mind set for Q2. Glad I missed the train wreck in Q6.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 20:39:53 GMT
VII) List an item you may use as a WEAPON. Kitchen knife - 5 (Kieran, Scouserob, Trialmaster, Peter, Peter’s wife) Kris Knife – 2 (Gabe Fandango, Adrius) Silver dagger - 2 (Petch, Vastariner) Length of branch - 2 (Evilwizard, Sylas) Letter-opener from the Azazel room – 1 (Per) Meat knife - 1 (Hallucination)
The question with the lowest number of possible right answers, but we still got a couple of unique entries, and even the highest-scoring one wasn't a Shekou-scale pile-up. Kieran's answer to this question was phrased as 'Knife from ghoul room'. This was sufficient to identify it as the kitchen knife, qualifying it as a correct (if popular) answer, but also raises the intriguing possibility that Kieran's preferred term for 'kitchen' is 'Ghoul room'. Hallucination's 'meat knife' is the one from the unnamed upstairs room where you also find the garlic and white white wine, rather than the popular one from the ghou kitchen.
Running totals Box cage 1) Sylas - 12 2) Scouserob - 15 3) Per, Peter - 16 5) Trialmaster, Hallucination - 17 7) Gabe Fandango, Kieran, Peter's wife, Adrius - 18 11) Petch, Vastariner - 19 13) Evilwizard -23
Tall cage 1) Sylas - 24 2) Evilwizard - 32 3) Per - 56 4) Scouserob - 60 5) Peter's wife - 70 6) Hallucination - 84 7) Peter - 90 8) Gabe Fandango, Adrius - 168 10) Trialmaster - 240 11) Petch, Vastariner - 336 13) Kieran - 360
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Post by kieran on Oct 31, 2023 20:48:58 GMT
For some reason, I was convinced that everyone would go for the letter opener.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 21:25:23 GMT
VIII) Identify a liquid you are given the opportunity of drinking in the house.Green liquid - 4 (Kieran, Vastariner, Trialmaster, Peter) Coffee – 2 (Per, Adrius) White Wine – 2 (Gabe Fandango) Poisoned White Wine from an unlabelled bottle in the small storeroom - 1 (Scouserob) Brandy - 1 (Evilwizard) Water - 1 (Hallucination) Clear liquid - 1 (Peter’s wife) Tea - 1 (Sylas) WRONGSoup – 1 (Petch) Petch's answer sent me down a semantic rabbithole, as the question of whether soup is drunk or eaten is a matter of some debate. What consensus I could find indicates that if it's Cup-a-Soup served in a mug, you drink it, but if the soup comes in a bowl and a spoon is used, you eat it. The book isn't clear either way, stating only that "Soup follows", but given that it's a course of a meal served in the dining room of a member of the landed gentry, odds are that we're talking 'bowl-and-spoon' here. Thus, it counts as a wrong answer, scoring 14 in the Box cage and (thanks to the popularity of the green liquid) 8 in the Tall cage. Gabe and Scouserob's answers bring up the rarely-used 'More specific variants' rule. Gabe's more generic 'White wine' encompasses all three of the opportunities to drink white wine (at the start of the meal, in the storeroom, in the larder), while Scouserob narrows the field to just the one instance described. Therefore Gabe scores 2 and Scouserob scores 1. In addition to his clearly delineated set of answers, Scouserob also gave details of every answer he could think of for every question. Some quibbling was averted by his not picking 'Red liquid' here: while the book does initially suggest you might 'risk taking a sip' of a liquid from a vial, you don't actually get to drink any of the red liquid, as its fumes alone suffice to bring about your character's demise. Other acceptable answers not given were yellow liquid and red wine. Running totalsBox cage1) Sylas - 13 2) Scouserob - 16 3) Per, Hallucination - 18 5) Peter's wife - 19 6) Gabe Fandango, Peter, Adrius - 20 9) Trialmaster - 21 10) Kieran - 22 11) Vastariner - 23 12) Evilwizard -24 13) Petch -33 Tall cage1) Sylas - 24 2) Evilwizard - 32 3) Scouserob - 60 4) Peter's wife - 70 5) Hallucination - 84 6) Per - 112 7) Gabe Fandango, Adrius - 336 9) Peter - 360 10) Trialmaster - 960 11) Vastariner - 1344 12) Kieran - 1440 13) Petch - 2688
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Post by Per on Oct 31, 2023 21:37:55 GMT
For some reason, I was convinced that everyone would go for the letter opener. For the record I had no strong conviction everyone wouldn't. And my second choice would have been the branch. For Q8, if I had changed my answer from coffee to tea as I very nearly did, I wouldn't be better off, but it would've cost Sylas the lead in the tall cage.
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Post by a moderator on Oct 31, 2023 21:58:24 GMT
IX) Describe a full-page illustration which accompanies a section that you cannot reach in the course of a successful attempt at the book. Vampire in the Shaitan room – 4 (Petch, Per, Scouserob, Adrius) An old man in a white gown sitting on the floor of the corner of a small room with crumbling walls - 4 (Kieran, Peter, Peter’s wife, Sylas) Ghoul in the kitchen – 1 (Gabe Fandango) Changing room at the local temple, on the wall of which someone has put up an HIM poster, and in which various golfers try to work out which cloak is a best fit, Brother Sylvester noting that he cannot dab while wearing a goat head, possibly for health and safety reasons given Brother Roderick behind seems to be a bit dubious about the pointy bits - 1 (Vastariner) An ugly man sitting on an uncomfortable chair in a room with rough walls and a blood stained table with a goats head on it - 1 (Evilwizard) Great Danes – 1 (Trialmaster) Goat-masked cultists and young woman victim - 1 (Hallucination)
Another question for which every possible answer was picked at least once - though obviously different players had different ideas about how much detail was called for in the description. While Vastariner's use of artistic license goes a bit far, his answer is a more effective description of the picture than his earlier, insufficiently detailed 'Brother Isaacson'.
Running totals Box cage 1) Sylas - 17 2) Hallucination - 19 3) Scouserob - 20 4) Gabe Fandango - 21 5) Per, Trialmaster - 22 7) Peter's wife - 23 8) Vastariner, Peter, Adrius - 24 11) Evilwizard -25 12) Kieran - 26 13) Petch -37
Tall cage 1) Evilwizard - 32 2) Hallucination - 84 3) Sylas - 96 4) Scouserob - 240 5) Peter's wife - 280 6) Gabe Fandango - 336 7) Per - 448 8) Trialmaster - 960 9) Vastariner, Adrius - 1344 11) Peter - 1440 12) Kieran - 5760 13) Petch - 10752
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X) Identify a human whom you may fight (their Skill and Stamina must be listed) during the adventure. Man in white – 3 (Vastariner, Evilwizard, Scouserob) Leader - 3 (Hallucination, Peter’s wife, Adrius) The Earl of Drumer – 2 (Gabe Fandango, Peter) First Man – 2 (Kieran, Trialmaster) Hunchback - 1 (Petch) Devil-worshipper in the Man in White's cell – 1 (Per) White-haired Man - 1 (Sylas)
After avoiding duplicating everyone bar Sylas, Evilwizard finally gets into a proper pile-up, while Shekou's brief moment of fame has already faded.
There was one viable answer that nobody picked: the Master’s Servant (also known as Second Man). Scouserob's thorough list of potential answers also included 'Franklins', but that's almost certainly a wrong answer. According to Out of the Pit, Hell Demons 'are able to assume the form of any human they encounter, usually killing and eating the person after they have copied him', so the likelihood is that even if the Franklins you encounter at the start of the book is human, by the time you can fight him, he has been replaced by a disguised non-human.
Final scores Box cage 1) Sylas - 18 2) Hallucination - 22 3) Gabe Fandango, Per, Scouserob - 23 6) Trialmaster - 24 7) Peter, Peter's wife - 26 9) Vastariner, Adrius - 27 11) Kieran, Evilwizard -28 13) Petch -38
Tall cage 1) Evilwizard, Sylas - 96 3) Hallucination - 252 4) Per - 448 5) Gabe Fandango - 672 6) Scouserob - 720 7) Peter's wife - 840 8) Trialmaster - 1920 9) Peter - 2880 11) Vastariner, Adrius - 4032 12) Petch - 10752 13) Kieran - 11520
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Post by Per on Oct 31, 2023 22:33:53 GMT
The guy in 98 is possibly the real Franklins who's been stashed away for a while?
After the Q6 pile-up I should be content to end up in the position(s) I did. Congratulations to the winner(s). Also thanks to Ed for another fun contest.
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Post by vastariner on Oct 31, 2023 22:38:24 GMT
There isn't a real Franklins. Drumer's hereditary abilities to restrain the demon, and the considerable blood-sacrifices required, have forced it to take the form of a butler and do Drumer's bidding. The spell is broken when the PC proves to be a mortal thread.
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Post by kieran on Oct 31, 2023 23:27:09 GMT
Well whichever cage I'm in, it's a poor performance from me. Well done to Sylas and Evilwizard and thanks Greenspine.
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Post by petch on Oct 31, 2023 23:35:18 GMT
I was conscious when I submitted it that my answer of 'soup' for Q8 was dubious. As it happens I did so badly on nearly every other question that it would have made very little difference to my final standing even if it had been deemed acceptable!
Thanks greenspine for another fun round, and congrats to sylas (and evilwizard).
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Post by sylas on Oct 31, 2023 23:47:29 GMT
Cheers greenspine. That was a fun one.
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Post by scouserob on Nov 1, 2023 0:06:09 GMT
Thanks Greenspine. I enjoyed delving back into my map, my (dubious) memories, and of course the eponymous House. 🎃🎃🏚️🏚️👹👹🍷🥃
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Post by Gabe Fandango on Nov 1, 2023 2:20:32 GMT
Crazy how one of the co-winners from one scoring system is near the bottom on the other one! I picked Shekou for being so prominent nobody in their right mind would choose him, considered swapping to the Second Skeleton because skeleton, but stuck with my (and everybody else's) first impulse. That was my mind set for Q2. Glad I missed the train wreck in Q6. That was my mindset for all the questions except possibly Question 1 (where I couldn't think of any). With everyone looking for all the answers in the same book this round, I don't expect a lot of obscure answers not to be found, so went with what I thought were the obvious or memorable ones. Not surprised to be involved in some pile-ups, but at least it seemed to have gone reasonably well for more than half the questions. Is anybody developing a preference for one scoring system over the other, yet? As a player, not so much. But as a host, I'd definitely be going for the Box cage so save myself the more complex calculations when I post my questions (which I'd probably be able to do around this Saturday).
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Post by Per on Nov 1, 2023 17:22:36 GMT
As I mentioned above, there's a game I started planning in 2009 but never ran, and it might be nice to finally run it if possible.
First, though, if anyone has a game already queued up, do go ahead with it.
The thing is, the subject of my contest is Lone Wolf, not Fighting Fantasy, so I'm not sure whether there's enough interest or if this thread is even the appropriate place for it (but perhaps somewhere among the 38 pages there's precedent for covering a different subject?).
It was originally to have been posted on the Yahoo Gamebooks list, of course, and I remember doubting then that I'd get more than perhaps half a dozen competitors, in fact thinking I might encourage participation by offering to write a playthrough and capsule review of one LW book for each set of answers submitted. (At the time I had recently run a series of three contests in another community, with few participants in the first, many more in the second as people took notice and thought it seemed fun, then back to a few in the third.) This expectation also influenced the questions I was working on, so they tended to have small sets of answers to increase the likelihood of clashes among few answers.
The scope of the contest was originally going to cover the first twelve LW books, but if I ran it now, I'd most likely narrow it down to the first five. And of course, they're available online at Project Aon, though presumably it still wouldn't be very interesting unless you're at least passingly familiar with LW in the first place.
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea, feel free to let me know here or in a PM, and if there's more than a handful of people I'll dig up and revise my slightly imperfect set of questions.
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Post by a moderator on Nov 1, 2023 18:11:15 GMT
I'd be fine with another LW one (I remember you running one at the Yahoo gamebooks list back in the noughties). Still, there doesn't seem to be much overlap between the regulars in this thread and the 'have read a significant number' crowd here, so I may be in the minority.
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Post by kieran on Nov 1, 2023 19:13:48 GMT
Happy to do a Lone Wolf one though I'd struggle with any questions regarding books past Book 16.
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Post by Per on Nov 1, 2023 21:57:30 GMT
I'd be fine with another LW one (I remember you running one at the Yahoo gamebooks list back in the noughties). Still, there doesn't seem to be much overlap between the regulars in this thread and the 'have read a significant number' crowd here, so I may be in the minority. Apparently I did run that one in June 2009, after which I began contemplating a second despite the disappointing turnout. A little oddly, though I've now managed to locate a listing of answers received (six contestants including myself) and an Excel file containing the points calculations (Simon won), I didn't locate the actual questions anywhere, and if they're still among my old emails they're buried deep (while I can find mails relating to your four FF contests). Happy to do a Lone Wolf one though I'd struggle with any questions regarding books past Book 16. If you can identify a way to be killed by a bridge, we're good to go
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