Did you enjoy the Prospernalia?

In no particular order, my thoughts are as follows.

Though I only played the one, my favorite game in concept was the ring toss. This is because no matter what you rolled, you got something, and could walk away. Some candy or a cookie isn’t much, no, but it’s something and more than the 95% chance of playing the strongman game once and receiving nothing.

To this extent, I think that games with consolation prizes like the ring toss game are good, and games with options to say, decide how many times you’re going to play beforehand, might also be good, so characters who are going to sit there and play until they get a prize don’t need to continue to edit their post or post 5-10 times until they roll a winning number. I don’t think that either of those is particularly fun for whoever’s doing it, so if the game design can minimize those cases, that would be ideal, is my opinion.

Having multiple food court threads for multiple sorts of food was a good idea, as it allowed for multiple socialization scenes to progress simultaneously without taking place in the same thread, and for characters to go from one to another. Three or four of those is probably about the right number, I think.

My favorite contest was the King & Queen contest, right up until the point where the votes got massively skewed. I can’t say how to fix that or make it fair, as some players simply have more characters and energy than others, and it wouldn’t help much to say something such as “You can’t vote for your own characters” or something like that. However, what I do mean to say is that I as a player am not too terribly interested in the dice contests; that’s just me. They’re interesting, sure, but I’m not personally one for participating. I would suggest keeping contests that are not dice-based in events, that might instead challenge a player’s writing skill, a character’s ability to tell a story, or some other non-dice, non-combat sort of thing.

For example, the Land Tillers’ State hosted this Food Festival last year. That was neat.
And then they also invited over some warrior, mage, fighter, sorts of people, to tell stories to their soldiers, a few of which can be read here.
You could probably do something with a few appointed judges, and have characters perform something, or present something of theirs for review. That would prevent voting problems, at least.

I think the feast should have started one day later. Timing these sorts of things is going to be difficult, and this is just sort of my opinion, in that I woke up one morning and saw the feast, where I expected at least one more day of festival first, but I think one day more before the final thing starts, but more or less the same overall length is good. It’ll depend a lot on each event, though, and I don’t think you should look at how long this was, and apply it verbatim to the next one.

The number of threads was good. You could perhaps do more, but I wouldn’t do any less. There were frequently multiple scenes taking place at multiple times within the same thread, and I think allowing the space to keep that sort of thing to a comfortable minimum is a good idea.