Totally stoked to have won! Thank you D&D Beyond and congrats to my fellow winners. Hope everyone has fun rocking out with the Devil Horn Rings!

🤘😝🤘

(full 2014 rules version here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/10869064-devil-horn-rings)
(full 2024 rules version here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/10869901-devil-horn-rings)

Congratulations to the winners! It's always fun seeing all the creative people of the community come together whenever we get to do one of these competitions.

This is Really Awesome! Congrats, And I'm glad we have such creative minds in our community.

Congrats, Richard,kevtori,asten,lanaken and iggnilsmor!

Devil horn rings dont do anything btw

Hey there, I couldn't fully describe the item's features with the 50 word description and modifiers, but it effectively lets you activate the ring to grant allies within 30 feet 2d6 temporary hit points and any enemies within that range must also make a DC15 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

I'll be making a fully descriptive version soon so keep an eye out! 🤘

EDIT: 2014 rules version is here- https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/10869064-devil-horn-rings
AND 2024 rules version is here- https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/10869901-devil-horn-rings

Well done and well played!

Congrats to the winners!

I must say though, I am confused by the judging here. One of the items is flavour text only with no actual functionality, another is mechanics only and basically no description and another has used the "Notes" section to actually complete the item description which would have otherwise gone well about the 50 word limit.

I can't speak on behalf of the other winning entries but in terms of my 'flavour text only' item (which technically did have functionality in the modifiers but those don't appear on character sheets), I went off the judging criteria in the original contest call-out:

"This contest celebrates creativity and tone over rules or complexity. No need to build full mechanics, stats, or modifiers. No need for it to be functional within the D&D Beyond character sheet. Think strange. Think simple."

I've since built a fully-functional version of the item for both 2014 & 2024 rules, linked in my replies further above. ☺️

Fully appreciate that you have made a functioning item now and your "flavour only" version is great. My confusion is that, if your "flavour only" item is of a winning standard, then how is a function only item also of that standard. It just seems strange to me and makes me second guess what I might submit for a similar comp in the future.

To be clear, please don't take this as a personally criticism or attack. I'm simply confused by the judgements and the criteria used to get there.

this is cool to bad I mist it

Cool, creative stuff. Congrats folks.

I was wondering kind of the same thing.  Also, how can someone get negative votes?  I had a +3 and then a -3 giving me a net of 0...
Wasn't aware you could "downvote" someone's creativity.

If people think the staff took more than just a cursory glance at the submissions or cared to follow their own guidelines and judging criteria... I've got bad news for you. There were plenty of submissions that followed the rules, were on theme with the Hellfire Club, and had cool mechanics along with solid descriptions that fit under 50 words. One of the winning items doesn't have an actual effect at all. Another has an effect that's only described in the notes, breaking or "bypassing" the 50 word count rule that other submissions had to follow, not to mention not even having anything to do with the theme of the Hellfire Club. No offense to the winning submissions, but it really just seems like they had some intern choose 5 random items without much care for the rules and judging criteria. 

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If people think the staff took more than just a cursory glance at the submissions or cared to follow their own guidelines and judging criteria... I've got bad news for you. There were plenty of submissions that followed the rules, were on theme with the Hellfire Club, and had cool mechanics along with solid descriptions that fit under 50 words. One of the winning items doesn't have an actual effect at all. Another has an effect that's only described in the notes, breaking or "bypassing" the 50 word count rule that other submissions had to follow, not to mention not even having anything to do with the theme of the Hellfire Club. No offense to the winning submissions, but it really just seems like they had some intern choose 5 random items without much care for the rules and judging criteria. 

 It seemed like it.  I don't know why I worried about word count or any of the other rules.  It's fine though.  Just want to know how I got "negative" votes.  That straight up sucks.

 My favourite is the collar of the goodest boy