Awards Banquet Details

Details
Cost: $50 base / Additional characters may be purchased for $20 each. This includes: +10 base Build per character, catered dinner, & features listed below
** You may purchase additional points of Build for $10 each, up to five Build. Additional Build applies to all purchased characters and comes with additional benefits, listed below.

Time: You may arrive as early as 5:00pm. The awards ceremony and dinner begin at 7:30pm and conclude around midnight.

Dress: The Awards Banquet is a formal event and attendees are encouraged to dress similarly to how they would for a wedding reception or cocktail party.

Pre-Registration: In order to ensure an accurate headcount for dinner, you must pre-register for this event. Pre-registration details are announced by the Director several weeks prior to the event. Pre-registration is an RSVP and not a pre-payment of admission; however, if you pre-register for the event, you are responsible for the event fee, even if you do not attend. See below for details on paying for the event without attending.

Awards Ceremony: Throughout the evening, many players will be presented with awards and accolades for their contributions to the community over the past year, which have been voted on by the Knight Realms player base or awarded by the Director. If you have been nominated for an award, you may wish to prepare a few words to say to the community in the event that you win!
Paying for the Event without Attending: If you cannot be in attendance but still wish to pay for the event, you may. Whether or not you attend the event, you still earn the base Build and may purchase additional Build. You may not spend Service Points at the banquet unless you are physically present; however, you may still earn Self-Teaches and have someone enter the featured raffle on your behalf.

Alcohol Policy: If you are over 21, you may BYOB. You may bring either one 6-pack of approximately 12oz (355 mL) or less beverages (such as a standard six-pack of beer), or one approximately 750 mL or smaller bottle (such as a standard bottle of wine). Your beverage may not exceed 17% alcohol by volume — hard liquor is not permitted during the Awards Banquet.

Self-Teach
Any player who purchases extra Build at the banquet will earn one Self-Teach per Build point purchased. Self-Teach has been updated and is described below — this applies to future Self-Teaches and any Self-Teach already possessed by a character.

At any event, a character may use a Self-Teach to learn a skill without a teacher. This skill does not count towards the limit of skills a character can learn in one event (typically one new skill and one additional use of a skill); for example, a character may spend three Self-Teaches to learn three skills on top of her two normally learned skills.

A Self-Teach may either be used to learn a skill normally (the player writes the skill on her character card and learns the skill for the following event) or used at check-in. If a character uses a Self-Teach at check-in, it must be authorized by the on-duty marshal and noted on the OOG notes section of her character card with the marshal’s signature. This allows the character to learn the skill instantly and use it during the same event, similar to the old fates “Fate of Wisdom” or “Fate of Insight.”

Featured Raffle
Any player in attendance at the banquet will receive one red raffle ticket. Any player who purchases Build will receive three tickets per Build purchased (to a maximum of five Build). Additional red tickets may be purchased for $1 each during intermission.

Red tickets should be labelled with your name and may be placed in the tall buckets in the far end of the room. The raffle will be drawn at the end of the night. The prizes are listed below!

One Year of Defranza Photography Portraits
The winner of this prize will receive one free portrait at every Knight Realms event they attend thru January 2021. The winner must be in the photo. This prize has been graciously donated by Defranza Photography!

$100 Amazon Gift Card
It’s just a gift card for Amazon that James will probably send Steve to buy from CVS the morning of the banquet. There’s no secret item card with it unless you save it until Knight Realms releases a AAA video game bundled with cool items in the deluxe edition.

Denidrogg, Runeblade of Agrizarr Dokkenhaeg
One of the greatest runesmiths ever to walk the face of Arawyn, Agrizarr poured his heart and soul into every swing of his hammer. He searched the edges of the world for the greatest and rarest materials so that he could make masterpieces like never seen before.
His hubris and ego had not gone unnoticed, however, and Brazen himself came to him in disguise and offered him a competition. The two would be given 3 years to seek out the materials they would use and return to forge a magnificent blade to present to the King of Calisvorn. So for 3 years Agrizarr sought out what he could.
The two worked tirelessly to make their creations and when the time came for presentation, it was said this was the only time in all of recorded history where Brazen had lost. Even he was in awe of what the dwarf had created. Since that time, the sword was locked away in a vault after the King’s death, and has passed through the hands of tomb raiders, markets and collectors, and now into your hands.

Denidrogg, the Runeblade
Material: Sunsteel - Unbreakable, Fire or Lightning Damage
Unique: Runic Setting - Character may put two runes of any Rank into the socket into the sword and use it for the event. The character may change the rune at the beginning of an event, and switching out the rune does not destroy it.

Liquidate Service Points (To Build)
Any player who has purchased +5 Build may zero out their Service Points to convert it to Build at a rate of 1,000 SP to 1 Build. Any remaining SP under 1,000 will be retained.

Raffle Items (Service Points)
Any player in attendance at the banquet may purchase white raffle tickets for 5% of your total SP, rounded down to the nearest hundred, to a minimum cost of 100 SP. For example, if you have 10,000 SP, your tickets will cost 500 SP each. If you have 32,450 SP, your tickets will cost 1,600 SP each. These tickets will be sold during intermission; we will let you know the price of your tickets before you commit to purchasing any.

White tickets should be labelled with your name and may be placed in any of the small buckets by the awards podium. The raffle will be drawn towards the end of the night; the prizes will be available for viewing at the banquet. Note: the purchase price of tickets are scaled to give everyone a fair chance at the raffle items, but unlike previous years, you may put the white tickets in any SP Raffle bucket.

***Full list of items to be posted later

Wondrous Abilities (SP Purchase)
Any player in attendance at the banquet may spend their Service Points to purchase up to one ability from the following list. This purchase may be made for the player’s character or on behalf of any other player in attendance. However, any given player may only earn one Wondrous Ability per banquet. These abilities are only obtainable from special means, such as the Awards Banquet.

A player may also choose to transfer SP to another player in order for them to purchase a Wondrous Ability. This SP must be spent immediately at the banquet and may not be saved for later. Doing so counts as if both players purchased an ability.

Some Wondrous Abilities have the Exalted Trait. Exalted abilities may be used once per event. If an Exalted ability is defended, the character retains the use of the skill but may not use it against the same target for the duration of that encounter.

***Full list of abilities to be posted later

Full document of information!

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Will the lightning cage work with ranged weapons as well?