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[Eric J. Boyd]

[quote="Andy K"]I'd put prep as "the functional equivalent of getting everyone together]

I'm thinking of having a GM do some allocation of hazard dice among hazards created cooperatively and create a few extra surprise challenges between sessions. Likely no more than a half hour's worth of work. Character generation is included in the first session. Is this kosher or should I find a way to work it differently?

[Andy K]

[Doug Ruff]

I'm not a chairperson or ninja judge, but I'm going to offer the following as a suggestion for dealing with prep-time questions.

If there's only one person involved, it's not play. This is becasue it doesn't change the shared game knowledge.

So, if I as a GM spend 2 hours building a scenario, 30 minutes making the props etc, and all of this happens before I meet the players, that's not play.

If we spend 10 minutes together choosing characters, that 10 minutes is play. Even if we're choosing them from a pre-gen list.

Andy, does this help?

[Andy K]

[Antti-san]

Forgive me for twisting your previous answers but I wanted to make sure.

What if the players create their characters themselves? (Only one person involved...)

Not actually what I plan to do but just crossed my mind. In our group, it is usually hard to find to come together, so we tend to make our characters in advance (with GM) and when we start a campaign, everyone is ready to go.

This includes a player and the GM, so it wouldn't count as "only one person involved". But it can possibly be done without GM.

[Andy K]

[Antti-san]

It wasn't my intention to do so, just wanted to point out that it could be possible if the "only one person doing it-rule" is applied, the judges didn't care about using such a loophole, the person doing it would care less for the ethics of this game and it was raining outside.

I personally think that it would be considered "bad sports". But I just want to look for possible loopholes (being in my playgroup has tought me that there is ALWAYS at least one person who abuses such things *sigh*) to prevent people from using them.

[Andy K]

Ahh, ok.

Well, in that case rather than looking for loopholes I'd rather stick to actual, real examples. Like, if someone has a question because they were thinking of using it, I'll address those. But I'd rather not come up with the Universal Rule Framework, considering the contest is almost half done, most folks have begun their games, and everyone's beeing a good sport about it right now.

-Andy

[Queex]

You say you can handle most file formats for submissions, does this include .odt?

[Andy K]

Unfortunately, I have no idea what ODT is...

...oh, looks like Openoffice.

No. Please use use pdf, rtf, doc, txt, html, etc. If you would like help converting an rtf or doc to PDF, let me know and I'll happily do so.

-Andy