Brawl #3 Round 4 Voting

[Chapuz]

Just a notice to Brawl Masters (I know nae is having forum troubles so maybe Chap can look into it):

DDD should have a PM sent containing Boss Task within proper timeframe.  Please check and if found include it here - thanks!

I don't have it in my mail box. You can send it to us now and it will have the 50% penalty we are taking for late submissions. If for any reason Nae has it, we may not apply any penalties. Anyway, the polls will start whenever I can modify posts (if anyone knows how to and could do it once, please tell us) and everyone will have 1 week for voting starting when the polls are made.

[theelkspeaks]

Voting for Brawl is in thread, not by poll, right?

[Chapuz]

I derped. One week starting when I can modify this thread and put the last submissions (one of them was a derp of mine)

[theelkspeaks]

I've been able to edit my own posts (though I couldn't edit yours, so unable to help with that).  If I change the .org to the dek.im on the edit page itself, it's been working for me.

[asymmetry]

DL: Dude, that's Art Nouveau, not Baroque (and an excellent example of what Art Nouveau means, while we are at it).

Dude, no.
While my submission is by far my least favorite (done in a rush, not what I wanted to do initially), it has no art nouveau elements (besides maybe the subject, but that would be sexist).

Art nouveau happened three centuries later and its essence was impulsed by the proto-advertising era and the rise of new printing technology.
The thick contours⁽¹⁾, rich color palette⁽²⁾, (sometimes) floral motifs actively merging with the subject⁽³⁾, plain colors over elaborate strokes and shades⁽⁴⁾, clever use of lettering⁽⁵⁾, are all lacking here.


My hurried approach at baroque tried to incorporate elements of opulence, delicacy, naiveness and excesses, since baroque was art for people who could afford it. Mainly the over-the-top frame and the floral patterns that aristocrats loved as wallpapers back then. They were a symbol of status. I admit the nymph could be better.
All this "explaining" seems unnecesary to me, but I hope the insight is useful for the voters.

Sorry for being an ass for a while. But still, nope.

PS: Andre, while your piece lacks execution, I value all the time you seem to have put on it, my vote goes for you this time.

[andretimpa]

Yeah, I was a bit of an ass too. It's lacking the more flamboyant details, but the aesthetic, specially the wallpaper and the pose of the nymph reminded me a lot of it.

About the execution, that was my first semi-serious shading, so I'm not 100% sure of what I'm doing.

[Naesala]

sorry, must nitpick about the writer task.

so we need to redo the lore of one of the NPCs in trainer. this would be the description that NPCs comes with. wouldnt this imply that the lore should FIT in the description section of it? mine doesnt, but it gets very close, missing only a couple words, but others wouldnt be halfway through the story...

You misunderstod the round, sorry.

The task was to choose any NPC or AI in the games, not just NPCs in the trainer, and write some lore about them.

[dawn to dusk]

Ahh, i see

Sorry DDD ^^

[Naesala]

Death dost domiantes boss submission was sent on time. Here it is. I can't modify posts.


Thanks CuCN for helping me get things working again.

[Naesala]

Everything should be up and fixed. If you think something is still missing, we either didn't receive it or somehow missed it. Notify us.

[Annele]

The writer's tasks are still in our forum expert spoiler

[OldTrees]

Card Design: Vote
Silver Ferns followed by Whispers in the Dark

Card Design: Informed Opinion
Death Dost Dominate
Quinted Ferns is an interesting situation. Even without Quint it adds a cost to most CC use.
Rigor & Squids (one or the other upped) is an interesting situation. However Rigor does not have much use on its own.
1 Rigor does force Ferns to make breaks in protection. Such breaks are easily exploited by CC. So it does act as a hard counter in practice.

Divine Light
Cuculus Canorus acts as cheap and slow CC. Some rebalancing might be required.
Donating a creature is rarely useful. Singularity is one of the rare exceptions and it not a well balanced usage.
Donating does work as a hard counter.

Cuckoo's Nest
Boogeyman is useful on its own.
Cuckoos Revealed is rarely useful on its own.
Cuckoos Revealed does work as a hard counter. I do question how extreme the reaction is though. Rather than hard countering the card it hard counters any deck that used the card. The unupped seems like a better design than the upped in this regard.

Silver Ferns
Enlightened Prophet is useful as CC. I am not sure if the effect is Light though. It feels more like sniping.
Sheltering Ferns is useful as anti-CC. I think the upgraded card needs testing.
Sheltering Ferns only works as a hard counter when you have few creatures to protect(or lots of quanta upped). It still works as a good counter the rest of the time but not as a hard counter. I think that is a reasonable design for Sheltering Ferns.

Whispers in the Dark
Wither is better than a double strength infection but not by much. This seems rather expensive for the CC it offers.
Whisper is an efficient CC resistant creature.
The CC resistance of Whisper does counter Wither and Whisper is efficient enough to be the only creature used (if other creatures are used then it is not a hard counter to Wither).