The Many Adventures of Fawngate

[Silverleafeon]

Hello Everyone!

One might ask oneself, "What is Fawn doing posting inside the PVP section?"


That is an excellent question indeed.


A very long time ago, Fawn posted in these threads:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...ds-be-with-you

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...avor!%E2%80%9D


If you read the very last post, there is a reference to the "new" enhancement system arriving (along with Epic Destinies and a lot of other things).
The Hunger Games would seem replaced by farming Rusted Blades, wandering the King's Forest, and learning how to play the Druid class.


Time passes...
More Time passes...

Fawngate now has her beloved wings along with all available past lives and is looking around, wondering what to do next?

For her, the Completionist Project is finished, and keeping up with any new past lives will be fairly easy.

The Virus Giveaway allowed me to create a few new accounts.


Perhaps, the way forward is to look backward?


She enjoyed the Munchkin Games as well in the past:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...mer-Games-2021



So I have been bouncing ideas around with my silent partner and listening to suggestions.


I celebrated Groundhog day with a feast and peeking up from underground and wondering whether winter is over yet?
(Mind you, my version of a feast is going to the grocery store and opening up goodies brought home while stocking up the pantry.)


This thread will introduce and run some interesting events while talking about random DDO thoughts and goals.

And so it begins...

[Silverleafeon]

I have given the DDO PVP system a great deal of thought and would like to revisit the original Hunger Games events that I ran long ago with some improvements.


When the heroine returns in Mockingjay, the Hunger Games becomes a Team Event with goals in the storyline.

I feel that PVP Capture the Flag is a better representation of the 75th Culling.

The heroine also would have leveled up.

DDO has added expansion and favor rewards the Vet level seven option, representing character growth.

(The first event was level four characters in the Death Match arena.)


Max level seven would be fairly easy for new character creation since one can access Vet 7, Vet 4 plus leveling up, or Choosing Iconic and only leveling up to seven.


A team event would be easier for me to run as a single-elimination event via the standard tree format.

Now that I have multiple accounts, I can level up extra judges to multi-box as an organizer.

My internet too has improved, and lag is so much better for me than in years past.


There is usually more population on the weekends, but Friday and Saturday are often devoted to guild raiding.
Sunday afternoon, however, is usually a time to relax and slow down with some amusement and divergence.

[Silverleafeon]

DDO Hunger Games version II




I will create a channel: FawnpVp to communicate over.
/joinchannel Fawnpvp



Start Time: Sunday Afternoons at 4 PM Eastern Standard Time (organizing, battles will start soon after)

Location: Khyber Server - you will join one of my raid group looking for members which will be put up by Fawngate and Fawnpvp (or possibly Fawngale or Fawnglow); there will be a prompt for you to accept a challenge which you will click yes, teleporting you to the arena. After the event is over, finish out which will remove you from the raid group. Winners will start round two in a similar fasion.

Number of Rounds: Single Elimination - Winner goes to next round, typical tree format (four teams = 2 rounds; eight teams = 3 rounds)

Time for Each Round: Ten Minutes

Arena Choice: The First Sunday of the Month will be Menechtarun Desert, The Second Sunday of the Month will Quickfoot Arena, The Third Sunday of the Month will be Menechtarun Desert, The Fourth Sunday of the Month will be Quickfoot Arena, the Possible Fifth Sunday of the Month will be randomly chosen between the two as a surprise. It will always be a Capture the Flag Arena.

Number of Players Allowed on a Team: One to Five players per team, depending upon popularity; There should be a team captain. Each team member should belong to the same guild, if not the Team shall be registered as belonging to the Team Captain's Guild.

Level Limit: A player's toon shall not exceed level seven, but said toon may max out all of their level seven action points.

Class Restrictions: A player may not use a build with access to the Fascinate Ability. (This Currently means you cannot have any Bard levels.) [The rationale behind this limitation is that unable to move is not fun.]

Team Restrictions: Each player on a team must have a different Class Symbol Icon. [The rationale behind this limitation is a variety of roles will force better teamwork and limit everyone from playing four copies of the same build.]

Equipment Restrictions: There are no restrictions on equipped items, potions, scrolls, wands, or even cookies for these events. [The rationale behind this is that I cannot observe and monitor equipment accurately.]

Camping Restrictions: I would ask that players refrain from standing closer than 30 foot of their foes respawn zone. Unfortunately, this is something that I cannot easily enforce unless of course, a Judge starts attacking obvious Spawn Campers.

Judges Each event should have a high-level neutral party member inside the arena. Judges are considered to be "Environmental Hazards" and are present to record scores. Attacking a judge is unwise. Most Judges will have Fawn somewhere in their name.

Race Restrictions: You may use a normal or iconic race that you have access to. Yes, you can use an iconic that have only been leveled up to seven.

Past Life Restrictions: Your toon may not have any wings symbol. Your toon cannot have past lives.

Reaper Points: Your toon may have as many reaper points as they desire. [The rationale behind this is that reaper points are restricted by level and almost all of the points do not benefit the PVP arena. It would also be tough to accumulate many reaper points with a level seven toon that cannot earn past lives.]

Magic Restrictions: Unlike the earlier games there will not be restrictions on caster levels. [The rationale behind this is that there are multiple ways to counter magic if you choose to look for this.]

Guild Buffs: Guild Buffs are allowed. Once you have entered the Raid Group to prepare for the event, there will be a two-minute invitation to my guild airship where you can click for high-level guild buffs if you desire. The cargo hold of this airship is likely empty, but you can click on anything down there if you like.

House P and J Buffs: House P and J buffs are allowed.

Rewards: I will be running rewards on buy-in and donation generated. We may have buy-ins such as 10k plat per team, which will go to the winning team captain. I will not be purchasing expensive rewards from the DDO store. [The rationale behind this is to attract players who are interested in the event, not the rewards.]

Shout Out: We will be posting the Winning Team Members and their Guild after each event.

Championship Events: If this becomes popular we may have Winners Only events with a bigger buy-in.

[Silverleafeon]

Instructive Raid Train


Time: ?

Location: Khyber Server - Look for Fawngate's Looking for Members listing ?

Schedule of Raids: Working on this

[b]Might form an unbalanced informal PVP after the raid (pike or leave early if desired)

[Silverleafeon]

Tbd

[Silverleafeon]

reserved 5

[rabidfox]

Fawngate now has her beloved wings along with all available past lives and is looking around, wondering what to do next?

Keep taking gear off in r10s and see how long it takes until I notice that I'm having trouble healing you...

[Silverleafeon]

...

LOL +1
/salute to healers
/thanks

[Silverleafeon]

And....I forgot what a pain hitting epic levels on a brand new toon is like...blank Epic Destinies all the way around and zero tokens of the twelve...

I wonder if the Epic Destiny Revision will provide some relief?

[Silverleafeon]

I logged in and out on my Fawnpvp toon and was like "Wow, that was instant fast."
I guess my friends were right when they said completionist toons get more lag.

I'm tempted to leave this one as a first lifer, just for the fun of it.


I will not have my Bladeforged very developed for Sunday, so I'm thinking of a simple heroic Tempest Spine.

Thinking long term about the Hunger Games, I'll put up the Looking for Members, but not expecting anyone to join.
It will take a bit of time for word to spread and folks to put some effort into a PVP build.

[Silverleafeon]

I just realized that if I'm making the rules up, I might as well make them benefit my account best.


Instead of Warforged only, swap to human preferred.


Since Fawngate is PDK, human-based (as is Shadar-kai), I could use my main toon for the raids.
That would allow me to set up a raid schedule.

Also, I could go first with humankind then fill the rest of the group up with any other races.