Monthly CC Challenge

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               

usagreco66kg wrote...

To the Winner go the Spoils/End of the Road: 

Nice!  In my PnP games I've always had the odd tavern with something like a trophy weapon (perhaps an oversized ogre's sword) on the wall above the bar, or a (badly taxidermied) dragon head on a shelf.  Something the locals can tell stories about or even have stolen as a plot hook.

Masters of the Wild/ Let's make camp:

I like this one all on it's own.  I don't see any need to tie it into the plants theme, since it's got so much room for new content directly related to it.  I can imagine a whole nomadic barbarian village outfitted with this sort of stuff.  And it would give rangers those wilderness snares that they use for survival or for thwarting invading orcs.  Druids might even benefit from the skinnned animals and such in the form of a goal: wiping out the camp of a group of poachers that are killing every nearby animal with fur.

I tried to add these to the poll for November, but evidently it won't allow the poll to be edited if there's at least a single vote.  I will get these onto the one for December though.  Ideas with both variety and good descriptions...too good to pass up.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <Campaigning...>

For those who'd like to vote for their favorite CCC's, here's the really nifty/handy list from Neverwinternights.info, modified for *some* people to include current standings ;-)

(Edit: to go to the vault to vote, you click on the number of votes.)
(( to go to the forum thread, click on the name of the challenge))
Jun 2012 15 Votes  Animal Related Stuff     
May 2012 20 Votes  New, better looking weapons       
Apr 2012 8 Votes  Folk Tales & Myths       
Mar 2012 7 Votes   Elven Stuff       
Feb 2012 9 Votes   Oriental Additions       
Jan 2012 11 Votes   Rogue Stuff       
Dec 2011 12 Votes  Winter Stuff       
Nov 2011 16 Votes  Underwater Stuff   
Oct 2011 11 Votes   Demonic       
Sep 2011 14 Votes  Horror/Creepy       
Aug 2011 10 Votes  Planescape       
Jul 2011 10 Votes  Airships       
Jun 2011 13 Votes  Poor Folk Stuff       
May 2011 14 Votes  A Little Love for the Little Guys       
Apr 2011 11 Votes  Religious Items and Symbols       
Mar 2011 17 Votes  Statuary Garden       
Jan/Feb 2011 11 Votes   New Helms, Hats, Hoods, Hair Accessories, or other head decorations    
Dec 2010 15 Votes  Field war hospital, the toll of war       
Nov 2010 24 Votes  Ancient Civiliations  (Just one more vote needed!)     
Oct 2010 16 Votes  Commoners       
Sep 2010 26 Votes  Buccaneers/Pirates   (just went Hall of Fame :-)
Aug 2010 22 Votes  High Priestress/Cleric Apartment       

(Edit: And ignore the orphaned little 's' at the ends. I'm too frustrated to re-link the whole list :-P )

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                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 08 octobre 2012 - 03:43 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Nicely done Rolo although I wish you had made it plain that to go to the vault you click on the number of votes. Just too darned clever for an old grinning cat ().

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               Theme idea based on a post by henesua:

Overhead Stuff: More and more tilesets feature visible ceilings, why not have some overhead features visible from below?  The undersides of trapdoors, open chimney holes, hanging light sources, nasty looking eggs/pods, ceiling spikes with impaled corpses, ceilings with artwork painted or sculpted on them, fabrics hanging across the ceiling, spiders/bugs that move up the walls and across the ceiling, scripted visual effects that appear overhead (ghosts, sprites, etc.), a variety of tree/plant roots hanging down and/or across, swings mounted to the rafters, various vines hanging down, or even placeable bats roosting overhead.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Couple of ideas-

• Grubby - Now this isn't a criticism of content creators but how come everything looks so darned new. So how about making some things that look well used. Maybe even positively caked with mud/dirt etc.
• Literary favourites - How about making things from the pages of your favourite book(s)? For example the ornithopters from the Dune books, Fire Lizards from the P.E.R.N. books, Jhary A'Conel and Whiskers from the eternal champion saga etc. The list could go on and on (Tik Tok from the OZ books).

One thought on the actual list. How about once a year having a list that consists solely of suggestions that have recieved zero votes in the past so that the challenge is not entirely dominated by challenges that produce things that we are already familiar with.

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Dang! I'd forget my own head if it wasn't screwed on tight!

A Suggestion I've been meaning to make for ages-

MiniMax - Simply miniature and macro stuff. For example the four legs of a giants chair (or the whole chair even), a 3 meter tall chicken (I like chickens ()), a 2 meter tall cup and saucer (Alice?), a tileset of miniatures, etc.

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               Since I've pretty much taken over administering the CCC, tonight I've started putting together a complete list of themes that have been suggested and/or used in the polls over the last couple of years.  I'm working on going back and getting the names of those that made each suggestion so that I have that information in one spot (with each theme summary), but for now the initial list is done and I am posting it here just for those that are curious.

I've got it divided into several sections: themes that have been used, themes in the current poll, themes that have been suggested but not yet added to a monthly poll, and themes that have been removed for lack of votes.

I gotta say...there have been a lot of themes suggested since this whole thing started. '>







Complete Theme List:

Used:
High Priestress/Cleric Apartment (used Aug. 2010)
Buccaneers/Pirates (used Sep. 2010)
Commoners (used Oct. 2010)
Ancient Civiliations (used Nov. 2010)
Field war hospital, the toll of war (used Dec. 2010)
New Helms, Hats, Hoods, Hair Accessories, or other head decorations (used Jan./Feb. 2011)
Statuary Garden (used Mar. 2011)
Religious Items and Symbols (used Apr. 2011)
A Little Love for the Little Guys (used May 2011)
Poor Folk Stuff (used Jun. 2011)
Airships (used Jul. 2011)
Planescape (used Aug. 2011)
Horror/Creepy (used Sep. 2011)
Demonic (used Oct. 2011)
Underwater Stuff (used Nov. 2011)
Winter Stuff (used Dec. 2011)
Rogue Stuff (used Jan. 2012)
Oriental Additions (used Feb. 2012)
Elven Stuff (used Mar. 2012)
Folk Tales & Myths (used Apr. 2012)
New, better looking weapons (used May 2012)
Animal Related Stuff (used Jun. 2012)
Player Customization (used Jul. 2012)
Steampunk (used Aug. 2012)
Arabian Nights (used Sep. 2012)
The Bazaar (used Oct. 2012)

Current Poll:
Arcane Space Stuff
Surprise Me
Sea, Air & Land Travel
Overland Areas and World Maps
Dragon Stuff
Dark Sun
Drow Stuff
Spells and Spellcrafting
Dr. Who
Plants
Why So Serious?

New, or Not Yet Used, Suggestions:
MiniMax
Grubby
Literary favourites
Overhead Stuff
To the Winner go the Spoils/End of the Road
Masters of the Wild/ Let's make camp
Artifacts and Relics
Deities and Demigods
Gothic
Heaven and Hell
Lost and Forgotten
Oldschool
Technomancy
Weird Science
Wizard's Mistake

Orphans, Stage 1 - those eliminated one time due to 0 votes)
- may be brought back for an encore if/when the number of poll options drops below 10:
Dwarves and Demi-Humans (0 votes - poll for Sep. 2012)
Ancient Egypt Religious Items (0 votes - poll for June 2012)
Monsters from Asian Mythology (0 votes - poll for June 2012)
Grounds and Gardens (0 votes - poll for May 2012)
Mirror, mirror on the wall (0 votes - poll for May 2012)
Bards and Artists (0 votes - poll for May 2012)
Size does matter (0 votes - poll for Apr. 2012)
New Humanoid NPCs (0 votes - poll for Dec. 2011)
Take your pick! (0 votes - poll for Oct. 2011)
Legend of the Dark Crystal (0 votes - poll for Oct. 2011)
Missing gender armor parts addition (0 votes - poll for Aug. 2011)
Underdark Societies Stuff (0 votes - poll for June 2011)
Hot Desert Stuff (0 votes - poll for June 2011)
Machines (0 votes - poll for June 2011)
Organics (0 votes - poll for June 2011)
Elemental Planes Stuff (0 votes - poll for May 2011)
The art of deception - 2d in a 3d world (0 votes - poll for May 2011)

Orphans, Stage 2 - those eliminitated a 2nd time for 0 votes - aka, "The Dustbin":
Magi scrying devices, and wondrous miscellaneous items of power (0 votes - poll for Apr. 2011 + 0 votes - poll for Jan. 2012)
Native American Stuff (0 votes - poll for Mar. 2011 + 0 votes - poll for June 2011)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               @AD respects man for that list - it must have taken quite a bit of trawling. One little suggestion is that I suspect there are some items in it that may be duplicates under different names. For example hot desert stuff and the one that was done for September just gone. There are others. It might be a good idea to do a little look through eliminating newer suggestions that are duplicates and posting on here to explain why. I say this even though I have suspician that my last suggestion MiniMax may fall into this category.

TR
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 13 octobre 2012 - 12:11 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_kalbaern]

               Recently while compiling some overriding haks for my own PW and another, I noticed that there seems to be a shortage of choices in two things. Well, I'm certain there are hundreds of "things" we'd all like actually, but two I've yet found anything decent for are ...

Couches ...

and Hobgoblins.

I've benches and chairs aplenty between Vault offerings and the CEP, but those two categories I can't find anything decent.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               If you give your suggestion a title and a short description/summary (to tell everyone what you are looking for and possibly several ideas), it can get added to the poll in the future.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               Suggestion:

Tile Magic

Tilesets in NWN are fairly static affairs, but tile magic enables a builder to introduce dynamic elements like,  for example, a flood of lava throughout a dungeon level. While tile magic has been useful for adding floods of liquids in our dungeons, I do not believe its potential has been tapped yet. There is great potential here as it enables a builder to introduce dynamic elements to a tile especially animations that respond to a player rather than being set on or off by the builder and then stuck that way.

Some ideas I have had recently include: the standard ruin features in various standard tilesets could have ghostly glowing ethereal versions of the intact building which are spawned during nights of the full moon. Several tilesets have buildings with chimneys that can be turned on by the builder to emit smoke. I'd like to have a VFX that looks just like those smoke emitters in the tile and thus be able to turn the chimney smoke on or off via script. How about dangly mesh cobwebs that can be spawned or despawned on the walls of various crypt tiles? Or the tile patterns in the ruins tileset suddenly come to life with a magical glow? 

Discerning custom content creators will realize that Tile Magic doesn't have to be a tile added to the visualaffects.2da, but could be anything that compliments a tileset. VFXs work, as do placeables. Even a well designed creature can serve this purpose, the old Drow boat trick might spring to mind.

Tilemagic is a state of mind.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par henesua, 19 décembre 2012 - 03:45 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

                <fighting...>

Theme: Who's that?
Description: A theme for the non-modelers (though new models are always welcome!). Colorful NPCs, Professional NPCs, celebrities, sidekicks and henchmen. Build NPCs to bring life to your cities and villages (FP!). Give them special items and write witty dialogue. Especially the dialogue. Give us a library of dialogues for butchers, bakers and blacksmiths (Hah! Thought I was going to say Candlestick makers, didn't you? Well, them too:-).

Write a news/rumor system for heralds and criers <been done>
Write a new one <why?>
Grrr. Write a gossip system that *uses* the dynamic rumor system to provide chatter between old women <and wizards>
Yeah. Wait, what? <just roll with it, old man>
Hrmph. Let the PCs overhear juicy gossip they haven't the wits to search out <ouch>

Script acrobat/thespian cutscenes that can be dropped in anyone's mod to provide background (or opportunity).
Script merchant/customer arguements. Write better merchant dialogue. Give henchmen something better to say than "D'uh" or "Ugga!" <oh, you'll pay for that one>

And, lastly (sort of), Make NPC avatars of your favorite suspe...er, personalities :-) <oh, man! can i do that one?>
Only if it's not me. <spoilsport>
Hey! This fellow had platinum in his purse =) <they're watching...>
*hides "his" new pouch* Right. Let's go!

Edit: Like it, H :-)

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                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 20 décembre 2012 - 05:50 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_T0r0]

               Suggestion:
 How about tileset exapansion. Grab your favorite bioware tileset and make an extra feature or group.

Suggestion:
 Similar vein as Rolo's for those that don't model. Quests that can be imported. These can range from simple to as complex as you're comfortable making.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sir Adril]

               Suggestion:
Dog collars, leashes, and armor, like the equipment for horses. Amateurs/non-modelers could try making a prefab pet store or animal shelter, perhaps adapting the horse and hench scripts to make the pets purchasable.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               Chronicles of Krynn

A challenge focused on the Dragonlance universe. That could include:

Creatures uniques from Krynn, like draconians, gully dwarfs or rideable dragons (even when I understand that this last would be hard to made).

Clothes and/or armors based on the official DL art, like the great work made by Lisa. A great addition could be the dragonlord armor....

Kender heads for halfings, solanic knight heads with their typical moustache; or any head base on the official DL art, again like Lisa....

Mythic weapons of Krynn, like the dragolances itself, short and large  versions; The hammer of Karas, etc....

Dragon orbs, with scripts, for attract dragons and with a will save needed to use it...