The D1 Meet'n'Greet

[Nystul]

A tournament where luck is the deciding factor isn't particularly fun though.

Apparently you've never watched the World Series of Poker! :lol:

When every attack is a roll of the dice, fate will play some role. But luck is largely a self-made blessing in Ironman, and even more so with 3 man teams. It's all about hanging on through the tough patch until that next "lucky" item or whatever saves the day. Teams with unlimited access to a blood shrine and purifying spring wipe out more often than not, often with some unused res scrolls sitting around while everyone stares at their red screens wondering how it went sour so fast. Maybe they had a glimmering shrine and a gnarled root too. Maybe if they had stayed alive for one more room they get book of mana shield or a splint mail.

That said, if a time stamp is chosen randomly and agreed to before anyone has seen the game, and the players only see the game once and don't hear about it from anyone else, how is it different from randomly starting a game as usual? It's not different at all. So if someone wants to do a tournament by those parameters in the name of fairness (even though the fairly random choice of left or right from any stairs might decide the game), it seems just fine to me. Only if some rare and uber item pops in that game, we will start to see some raised eyebrows and pointed fingers.

But this is a heavy topic for the meet'n'greet! Hi, I'm Nystul, I used to play some Diablo every now and then...