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Missing room from series 4

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  • s4t8brettS
    s4t8brettS
    s4t8brett
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    #18

    I don't know, mate. Stereotypical British sense of fair play, perhaps?

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    • wombstarW
      wombstarW
      wombstar
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      #19

      Maybe that room was untested, odd though how they never tried to use it again.. maybe having to use a spell to stop the axe.

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      • s4t8brettS
        s4t8brettS
        s4t8brett
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        #20

        Hi again Wombstar,

        I would be very surprised if we were the only team for it to have been tested on, although if they'd deemed it unworkable from a previous team's attempt, they wouldn't have wasted studio time trying it again. Maybe they thought it worth another go to increase the variety of scenes on the series.

        Stopping the axe might have worked, but then you have to decide whether the walkway itself was passable quickly enough for the scene to make entertaining television vs a tedious manoeuvring exercise (with a static threat). I'd have to look at it again to see whether it might have been passable standing up with the axe stopped - and that in a position where it wouldn't be blocked out by Giles when the axe was supposed to be in the foreground (if you're with me).

        Cheers,

        Brett

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        • DuxBellorumD
          DuxBellorumD
          DuxBellorum
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          #21

          If it was unworkable or impractical the that could be why it wasn't given more of an outing.

          However, in terms of how to defeat it within the Knightmare realm, then perhaps a spell would have been sufficient!

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          • wombstarW
            wombstarW
            wombstar
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            #22

            A good room to give a team on loosing status to kill them off... unless they manage to beat it.

            I'm reminded of the axe room in series 3 with that really tiny ledge, which was tough enough without the ghostly axe. That always looked a bit impossible.

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            • s4t8brettS
              s4t8brettS
              s4t8brett
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              #23

              Agreed, although if it looked intrinsically impossible to the production team they might have decided not to use it even for a team in so-called losing status, as was the case.

              I also agree about the ledge room from Series 3 looking hard enough without the team being harried along by a graphical weapon so closely!

              Boil off many of the directional errors from the first three series of Knightmare, though (plus sidestep to the left in serie 4, of course!), and - as I see it - you're still left with some arbitrary challenges (even discounting the riddles and other classical and general knowledge questions).

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              • s4t8brettS
                s4t8brettS
                s4t8brett
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                #24

                How about allowing people to try the Swinging Axe room for the next KM Convention: is it really impossible?! Can anyone do it?!

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                • MystaraM
                  MystaraM
                  Mystara
                  Administrators
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                  #25

                  I'd like to have something different at the next convention. Playing a room of the dungeon was fun, but it was expensive, disruptive, and hard to organise. It was also the last convention's "big thing". I feel we'd be taking away from the last convention by repeating it. But who knows, if our current plan doesn't work out, we'll be looking for another idea....

                  https://www.twicetwice.co.uk/

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                  • DuxBellorumD
                    DuxBellorumD
                    DuxBellorum
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                    #26

                    But surely being able to do something in the Dungeon would still be a big draw?

                    Very few people ever got to, even though I'm sure a lot of us on here would have applied...

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                    • MystaraM
                      MystaraM
                      Mystara
                      Administrators
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                      #27

                      Perhaps. But in view of the various restrictions regarding what we can actually do (keeping in mind time, complexity, and so on), I think doing something else would have a bigger draw.

                      https://www.twicetwice.co.uk/

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