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GenieLord
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Legendary Hero
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posted March 25, 2008 08:17 PM |
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Cohesiveness: 6 / 10
Imagination/creativity/originality/wow factor: 12 / 15
Back story how well it expands on one of the HOMM universes: 10 / 10 - I like the writing style of the history. Good job with that.
Battle facets: 5 / 10 - Creatures abilities are missing. I added points for very nice feast spells, although you should expand in your explanation of how the feast magic is related to the Ogres, since it's not clear at all. It may be even interesting to say that another thing that the Ogres and the Halfling have in common is the feast magic, and that's another thing that made them to stick together.
Discretionary: 5 / 5 - for buildings and good heroes stories.
Overall Score: 38
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Snatch
Promising
Known Hero
Proud Kappa
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posted March 26, 2008 03:28 PM |
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Cohesiveness: 9/10 (it's your own world, surely it is cohesive)
Imagination: 11/15 (many creative ideas, but as I said before I don't like the historic pirate names and using Heroes names like Roland, Archibald, Heresh etc. don't seem very inventive to me)
Back story: 8/10 (dragons, war, freedom, raiding... the usual, but very well written)
Battle facts: 10/10 (sounds like fun to play)
Discretionary: 0/5 (sorry, I would give you some points for the ideas but I'm not really fond of the cannibalism/feast magic aspect so plus and minus are equalizing each other)
38/50
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Golemcrafter
Promising
Famous Hero
Unlimited Fantasy Master
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posted March 27, 2008 08:20 PM |
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My Rate about The Freebooters
Cohesiveness: 7/10 points (The mixture of ogres and halfings aren't the best choich, however it can include some good features.)
Imagination/creativity/originality/wow factor: 12/15 points (Good creatures but I don't like the heroes too much.)
Back Story: 9/10 points (A well-written stroy. There shouldn't be every hero from every kingdom.)
Battle Facets: 5/10 points (I can't decide which creatures are better in combat and which less. There are many informations about creatures missing.)
Discretionary: 3/5 points (I agree here with Snatch. But the other spells and the descriptions worth points!)
Overall: 36/50 points
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War-overlord
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Presidente of Isla del Tropico
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posted March 27, 2008 11:00 PM |
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Cohesiveness 6.5/10; I just can't see Halflings and Ogres working together, but other then that everything seems to fit perfectly into the theme.
Imagination/creativity/originality/wow factor: 14.5/15; Verry imaginative and creative, a shame you have used names from actual historical beings(Not counting Sparrow and Barbossa)
Backstory: 8/10; Verry nice, but it is a tad short for my liking.
Battle Facets: 5/10; Having 2 racials seems impractical, also it's hard to get an idea how they fight without creatureskills. Still I like the idea of using Pirates (in your face Ninjas  )
Discretionary: 3/5; I like this, but I would have realy enjoyed this if you would have expanded their culture.
Overal score: 37/50
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bixie
Promising
Legendary Hero
my common sense is tingling!
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posted March 28, 2008 08:45 AM |
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Quote:
A well-written stroy. There shouldn't be every hero from every kingdom.
in the backstory, the 9 heroes represented the kingdoms resistance against the dragons. because of this, I wanted to show how even the best people can be corrupted.
and yes, the 9 heroes do fall. Since the dragons were never killed, only imprisoned, they could slowly use their corrupting influence to harness The heroes power and go to war, thus perpetuating the suffering of the people in the world. In this, there really is no good faction, or at least in the classic sense of elves, dwarves and humans being good. They all claim to have the right and all the others are evil, but really its only the leaders of the people know what the war is being fought for, and its only the dragons who know exactly what is going on.
but in the campaign, some people begin to find out what is actually going on.
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Momo
Promising
Famous Hero
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posted March 29, 2008 08:10 PM |
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Cohesiveness: 5/10 points biggest problem here. Sticking (warped) halflings,ogres and pirates together is an hard task; it would be even to stick just one with the other, but all three...
Imagination: 14/15 points on the opposite hand, I must say great inventive into making this hybrid, but even more great inventive is put in other aspects like the story or the racial skills.
Back story: 10/10 points solid work here, and reasonably brief. Also, you put a lot of your worldview in it, which is to be rewarded.
Battle facets: 7/10 points the creature's abilities are a bit lacking, but the idea of giving two different racials (one magic and the other might, essentially) makes up for this.
Discretionary: 4/5 points definitely a good work except for cohesiveness, taking for granted a mix that actually felt not-so-tasty to me.
Overall Score: 40/50
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Mytical
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
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posted March 30, 2008 09:38 AM |
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Again normally I am right along the same lines of Genie and Momo, but there are exceptions.
Cohesiveness: 7/10 Pirates by historical creed were a bit chaotic, and this fits with that. While they listened to the captain, they had a history of doing things their own way and a bit of mutiny sometimes.
Inventiveness: 12/15 Some points lost do to some questionable associations, but still very good
Background: 10/10 perfect, through, and great. What more can be said.
Battle: 7/10 Note : I want to play as this faction!
Des: 5/5 See above on Battle!
Total Score : 41/50
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Tobius
Adventuring Hero
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posted March 30, 2008 02:54 PM |
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Freebooters
Cohesiveness(2+0)=2 No reason that ties the creatures together, no relation to HoMM
Imagination(3+1+2)=6
Back Story(0+0)=0 Sorry, just completely untied to HoMM universe
Battle Facets(3+1)=4
Discretionary: +2 for feast magic and the heroes
Total Score=14
How I graded these:
Cohesiveness (Internal Coherence [1-5]+HoMM Compatibility [1-5])
Imagination (Creativity [1-5]+Innovations [1-5]+Originality[1-5])
Back Story (How well it expands on one of the HoMM universes [1-5]+How interesting it was to me [1-5])
Battle Facets (Variety [1-5]+Inventive Aspects [1-5])
Discretionary (Bonus for exceptional efforts[1-5])
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friendofgunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted April 12, 2008 06:20 AM |
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Freebooters:
FriendofGunnar
"and so the tradition of duel captains has become common practice, with one halfling and one ogre sharing the role as captain"
lol
I don't buy it.
Cohesiveness: 7/10
Imagination:13/15
Back story: 10/10
Battle facets: 8/10
Discretionary: 3/5 only a few pics
It's about time the HOMM universe got a cannon that shot magic cannonballs. Oh yeah.
heheh, an entertaining faction, though about 50% of it is dubious.
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Kookastar
Cohesiveness: 9 points - I need to suspend my disbelief here....
Imagination/creativity/originality/wow factor: 13 points
Back story: 10 - lots of great imagery!
Battle facets: 8 points
Discretionary: 3 points - this one's different 
Total 43
TDL
Cohesiveness(max 10) : 7
Creativity (max 10): 8
Backstory (max 10): 7
Battle Facets (max 15): 8
additional (max 5): 2
does not fit homm, the pirates theme is unfitting at all with such lineup, plus the lineup is comprised of too many races, unfinished
Total (max 50):32
Guest Judge's Score : 34.86 (Judges grades are weighed differently depending on how many factions they graded)
Judges Score: (41 + 43 + 32) / 3 = 38.67
Final Score: 36.76
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