Best Quote

Cringe Award

Best NPC

Best Villain

Darkest Hour

Greatest Moment

Best Adventure

Best Quote Nominees

• "This is the work of a Thrakazord!"
  Sting of the Thrakazord: Binknutt, using his legend lore ability in an attempt to identify the dragon-like beast which was stinging people to death, failed miserably and declared that it was a mythical creature known as the "thrakazord".
   
• "Hee hee! They think I'm a goat!"
  Kasmordo's Apprentice: Pursuing a goat which seemed to show up rather abruptly at the scene of a murder, Shao Tsang read its mind and found this thought. The goat was, of course, the dead wizard's imp familiar, and the cause of all sorts of trouble in Timber that night.
   
• "I would've made it if not for that teleporting freak."
  Things Fall Apart: Ezren, attempting to escape from unreasonable persecution at the hands of his companions, made a break for the woods, where he would have been able to disappear. Shao Tsang stopped him, using his psionic ability to teleport, enraging Ezren.
   
• "Maybe a century of order wouldn't be so bad."
  The Beginning of the End: Future versions of Mogdar and Ezren, dominated by Shao Tsang's mind flayer henchmen, were attempting to convince the party that the Evil One's rule might be beneficial. This remark from Mogdar earned him baffled looks from both Shod and Tellar.

Cringe Award Nominees

• Mogdar and Shao Tsang choke Victor and tie him up with his own rope.
  The Real Enemy: Paranoid as always and convinced that Victor was an enemy in disguise, Mogdar and Shao Tsang choked Victor until he passed out, then interrogated him.
   
• Plucky young Merrick gets melted and his brain is abandoned.
  The Beginning of the End: Knowing that they were on a suicide mission, the alternate future party allowed their young admirer Merrick to accompany them into the Evil One's stronghold. He died while they were still in the courtyard, melted by a giant brain-eating worm.
   
• Tellar berserks and passes out fighting an illusion.
  Kasmordo's Apprentice: Tellar, activating his berserker rage a little early, freaked out and tried to hack an illusion to pieces. Then, his rage spent, he passed out. The party left him behind, helpless, with the illusion-casting monster.
   
• Ezren reveals that the Mayor's gate is unlocked.
  Things Fall Apart: The party, heading for the mayor's house, stopped at the gate to his manor. Seisha started climbing, Shao Tsang got ready to teleport, and Binknutt got out his pipes of charming. Ezren walked up and pushed the gate open. It wasn't locked.

Best NPC Nominees

• Rathlind
  Transformed and alignment-reversed former assassin (and infamous villain of previous campaigns). Rathlind now serves the god Tyr and uses her skills and vampiric powers to hunt assassins. The party met her in Kethys, where she saved them from the Yuan Ti.
   
• Van Wilkes
  Daiten's mentor. Died at the hands of the psychic vampire, Cain. An adaptation of Todd's old character. Known for his double-wakizashi fighting style.
   
• The Giant Talking Camel
  What else can I say? It was a giant talking camel. Helped out in Rock the Casbah.
   
• High Priest of Ishker
  This small-town high priest cobbled together his church from leftover relics of the ziggurat-builders and apparently some stuff he just made up. He helped the party by giving them shelter and bits of information.

Best Villain Nominees

• Mestipsha
  Rakshasa from Cerfal Pass. He was running a profitable restaurant and inn when the party stumbled across him. After discovering that their initial attempt to kill him had failed and that he was very likely coming after them for revenge, the party got out of town as fast as they could.
   
• Evil One/Shao Tsang
  Future version of Shao Tsang, corrupted by power. He created a mechanically ordered hive society out of the frontier territory surrounding Timber and Dagger Rock. He somehow duped the mind flayers into believing he was the avatar of their god, and so employed them as lieutenants.
   
• Balthazar
  Crazy mage in a powerful artificial body. He liked to fly into small towns and claim to be a god. His traveling companions included a slaad named Tongue and a succubus called Blue, both of whom wore elvish bodies when last encountered. After being worn down by a former companion (from before he became completely evil), Balthazar was slain by PC's in Dagger Rock.
   
• Gunther
  Small-time thief in Ishkerton. He became much more dangerous when he stole the Death Rock from a night hag and used it to create undead grave-robbing henchmen. Believing that grave-robbing and necromancy weren't really all that bad, Ezren secretly freed him. Once revealed, this led several party members to believe Ezren was evil, brainwashed, an imposter, or all three.

Darkest Hour Nominees

• Zombies press in on all sides in the Zombie Theater.
  Cerfal Pass: Fleeing through the tunnels under Cerfal Pass in an attempt to escape the rakshasa, the party found an underground theater with an audience of corpses. As they entered the theater, more and more corpses got up and attacked them. They were so badly outnumbered that Shao Tsang felt their only chance was to use the Wand of the Wyrds.
   
• Mogdar outnumbered and Shao Tsang polymorphed into a snake.
  A Little Shopping Trip: While lowering Victor into a well, the party was ambushed by three yuan ti, any one of which could have given them a hard time. Ezren had already been captured and replaced, Victor was hanging from a rope in the well, and Shao Tsang had been transformed into a garden snake. Still fairly inexperienced, Mogdar didn't even have many spells to try.
   
• Tellar One-Arm alone against the Evil One.
  The Beginning of the End: Mogdar and Ezren, dominated by mind flayers, banished Shod to the Temporal Plane and sapped some of Tellar's strength with a spell. Shao Tsang psionically disintegrated Parenia. Tellar was left alone against Shao Tsang, his golems and lieutenants, two powerful spellcasters, and Ezren's squadron of skeletons.
   
• Kasmordo's Monsters released into Timber.
  Kasmordo's Apprentice: To cover its escape (and just for fun) the imp opened the cages of all the horrific creatures Kasmordo was keeping for experimentation. Although the heroes tried to rope the leucrotta, they were unable stop the monsters from getting out of the tower to wreak havoc in the village of Timber.

Greatest Moment Nominees

• Future versions of Ezren and Mogdar begin wiping out the party.
  The Beginning of the End: See the darkest hour nominations. This scene was nominated as a joke, but somebody actually voted for it.
   
• Shao Tsang offers to teach the Tao to giants.
  Rock the Casbah: After being teleported to a strange oasis and attacked by fierce green giants, the party was scattered. Shao Tsang made himself intangible, stood before the giants, and greeted them politely. He then offered to teach them the path of the Tao.
   
• Tellar survives being swallowed by the hatori.
  Knowing is Half the Battle: Battling an enormous stone crocodile, Tellar was swallowed whole. He not only survived and cut his way out of the monster's belly, but brought treasure from other swallowed victims with him.
   
• Seisha thwarts Shao Tsang's attempt to change the past.
  Things Fall Apart: Shao Tsang traveled into the past to prevent a catastrophic intra-party battle. A few tense moments after listening to his plea for peace and predictions of doom, Seisha donned her Chameleon Ring and attacked, proving that not even foreknowledge of disaster can stop the party members from beating each other senseless.

Best Adventure Nominees

• Kasmordo's Apprentice
  Introductory adventure for the campaign. Monster hunt starring the familiar, would-be apprentice, and captured monsters of a recently dead conjurer.
   
• Things Fall Apart
  The heroes wandered into a town where someone was using undead henchmen to rob graves. They had to find out who it was and then find out how a small-time thief became so powerful.
   
• The Real Enemy
  Something that washed up after the storm was corrupting the people of Halclef and making the party members paranoid.
   
• Knowing is Half the Battle
  The party traversed a monster-infested desert, made a harrowing journey through the Plane of Time, and defended a monk from assassination. Then they found out it was all for nothing.