Ross Fisher

I came up with most of the mechanics for the game, so I'd like to address your concerns again @NOD. Agree. This is why we leave a month between each challenge. This is the "off-season" where you're encouraged to build whatever you want. For example, @Khorne built his lovely Battle of Ice River freebuild. In BOBS, sometimes players took it upon themselves to provide prompts for those like "Oktoberfest" and "Soccer Tournament". If you'd like to start one of those, please feel free to do so. As previously stated, we have a timeframe of 30 days to balance between better builds and more challenges. I actually think shorter timeframes favour beginners because they prevent people from spending months building massive creations. I have suggested an entry can just be minifigures. I will make this more explicit. I disagree with this. Every player who builds an entry, enjoys themselves and gets feedback is a winner. I deliberately made the prize for getting the most votes as small as possible. They get to help decide what happens in the next challenge. But I do take your point. I've played other games on Eurobricks and it's really hard to find a way to reward builds without punishing other builds. BOBS set minimum entry criteria for challenges, which meant that you couldn't respond if you didn't have enough bricks. Moreover, if GMs didn't think your build was good enough, it wasn't allowed to earn points. SW Factions was worse. Your builds earned points according to the GMs opinions. GMs were also faction leaders. They also didn't explain why they scored those points the way they did. BOBS TOO aims to simplify this. We let all players vote on builds and explain why they voted the way they did. Love this. People can vote for digital builds and stories, and include this in their reasoning. On a personal note, I don't normally like digital builds because I rarely think it looks as good as real bricks. But in the last challenge I voted for one digital build and for one real brick build because I thought they were equally good. Voters are free to form their own opinions. I didn't set up separate categories because I didn't want to complicate things. The "prize" for having the highest voted build is that you get to help decide what happens in the next challenge. If it was anything more significant, like earning in-game points, or winning actual Lego sets, I probably would have. The "prize" is just to focus builders. Also, I didn't want to have to force players to vote for those categories if they didn't want to. Its up to you guys to decide what "good" looks like and to vote accordingly. I really encourage you to submit a build, any build, for this challenge. See how you get on! I think you might enjoy yourself. Then vote for what you think is most deserving of a win. If you want to encourage beginners, digital builds and stories, vote for them! I'm sure people would really appreciate your positive feedback.

OK chaps! Thanks everyone for taking part and for voting. Congratulations to @evancelt for winning the opening chapter. That Taemric Castle really set the bar for us to beat next time. We'll be in touch in due course to discuss their reward; choosing the prompt for the next individual challenge. The next prompt will drop at the start of December, so feel free to take the rest of this month off (or MOC something for yourself). It will be a Faction challenge, so have a chat with your teammates and think about how you might work together.

Tragically, @Jim's submission was after the deadline...

Hi @Jim your test worked! I think. Are planning on joining BOBS TOO? It's not the most piratey of content, but I think with a couple of tweaks it could work...

I love that blue! And your writing style is great too. Looking forward to seeing more of this story.

I'm going to vote for: @Khorne for a lovely digital build when I don't normally like them. @evancelt For sheer volume.

Some classy minis. Can we get a closer look at the banner? It looks great. Custom, right?

Thanks everyone for submitting entries. Chapter 1 is now closed. The entries are: Ross Fisher evancelt Khorne Dutch Thriceman Professor Thaum LegacyBuilder Brickwolf TribunM Ayrlego LM71Blackbird The Sarge Voting is now open. You have until Monday 10 November to add a comment with your votes in the thread below. You can select multiple builds if you like. You may want to explain your logic, and you can give honourable mentions as well. Please make a clear distinction between your votes and any honourable mentions. Fortune be with you all!

Great stuff. I'm keen to see what the Knights of Yeldo get up to.

A lovely little gypsy build. Great stuff!

Sorry you couldn't build in real bricks, but this is a lovely entry.

A great build. Excellent work!

A great build! And a lovely idea for a story. You might benefit from increasing the brightness of your photos, but this is a good start.

I am a native speaker and it all seemed fine to me! Great build, nice story. Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

Love it! A great entry, and I wouldn't have guessed it was digital in any way.