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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Napftor" data-source="post: 236241" data-attributes="member: 617">Honestly, I think you're being overly dramatic.  While I did not get the chance to scribble a campaign setting and send it off to WotC, I have to admit that even if I had a world brought to a simmering goodness after years of toil...so what if it had won?Sold your creative soul?  Bah.  IMO, D&D and any roleplaying game is about, you guessed it, creativity.  Whether your homebrew world is one month, one year, or ten years in the making, is there some reason you can't make another?  Especially if this original one makes you a wad of cash?  On the contrary, winning the contest would only reaffirm one's creative mind.  The chances that the winner is a fluke is unlikely.  The judges have been honing their craft for years.  They'll likely see the same in the winner.Sold your creative soul...I just don't buy it (no pun intended).  Such an occasion would not only give credence to your years of hard work, but also free you up for other writing endeavors (which could be no doubt had in abundance with the prestige such a winning would bring).  What's that you whine?...'My ideas wouldn't belong to me anymore!'  That's right, buddy.  You sold THOSE ideas.  But not your entire creative mind!Writers were born to write.  If, on the outside chance you do win, you cannot create anything other than your-world-related, then you're in the wrong business.I'm not trying to incite a riot here, but these are my feelings on the subject.  No offense is meant to any future readers.</blockquote>

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