Recent content by wdodd

I have to disagree. They are going to get thousands of submissions and I guess that getting into the top 50 is going to depend entirely on grabbing the panelist's attention and tickling their imagination in the first sentence or two. Nice tight, carefully crafted prose is not going to be the...

Re: A word of caution... Of course the chances your world will becomes as popular as Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms without the marketing muscle of WoTC and their pull with distributors and retailers approaches zero. Of course, if your world does become this popular (thanks to being selected by...

Re: Good morning On the opengaming list I suggested we start a pool to pick the new date for second round decisions after WoTC realizes that they can't review all the submissions before everyone takes off for a long Independence Day weekend. I'll take July 31st.

I'm skeptical when the "report" says that the police department is going to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit. The police don't file lawsuits. And the DA wouldn't sue either unless they could show that the taxpayers were defrauded of tax dollars (like the Tyco Intl CEO in NY). I am not a...

Not a bad idea, but how did you arrive at 100 ten-pagers? WoTC is only going to ask for 10 of those, right? I imagine a lot of people will start ten-pagers just to be ready, but 100 might be optimistic. Weldon

I'd like to see those too, but WoTC won't own them and so they won't be able to publish them. I still hope that EN World will provide a place for people to post their one-pagers and ten-pagers. It should be a separate forum so each submission can be its own thread.

Good point. I agree that it would be better to wait. July 4th might be a better date. The 10 lucky souls that are asked to do 10-page writeups can always abstain until later. And I don't see that the second and third rounds will be blind.

I agree. Somewhere else, I suggested that WoTC publish the other two 100-page bibles as OGC (since they own all rights to the last three). That would be a nice gift back to the fans who put all their effort into submitting the one-pagers. I'd like to see EN World host a new forum for one-pagers...

As long as they are representative... Anthony V. said... On heroes what we are look for is broad outlines of who becomes heores in your world and why. Are they adventureres, fighting injustice, out to make a buck, some combination etc. etc. We don't need actual characters until the 10 page...