Campaign World Submissions - Who Entered?

Kannik · Sep 4, 2004

I entered. }

Thrice, actually, co-writing with some friends.

Kannik

Jürgen Hubert · Sep 4, 2004

I entered. And while I didn't even make it to the second round, I decided I liked my setting idea enough to expand on it. You can see the results - now expanded to 50,000 words or so - here. I'm still working on it, and I hope to publish it as a PDF in another year or so (when I've expanded it to 100,000+ words, playtested it, polished it, gotten it edited, and commissioned some art for it...).

In hindsight, I know why my setting wasn't chosen - because my one-page proposal was quite bad, really (and that was probably the case for the vast majority of proposals...). I don't begrude Keith Baker his success at all - apparently, he was professional enough to bring the project to frution. And even if I had been chosen, I wouldn't have had the time to do the setting bible, anyway - I was drafted in January 2003, and basic training tends to put your mind off writing setting material for fantasy RPGs...

Still, I hope to see Urbis get published one day, so for me, at least, the Setting Search was a worthwhile exercise...

Varianor Abroad · Sep 4, 2004

Yeah, is the link to the submissions page gone? I remember skimming through that just about nine months ago. I sent mine in here.

Vlos · Sep 4, 2004

I followed the Ubris link above and found the page I believe you are looking for.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/news...e=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=2

Vagabond · Sep 5, 2004

Imagicka said:
*bump*

What? There wasn't anyone else who entered this?
No one cares to share their outline? *pouts*

Lots of people posted their entries in this thread: Merged WotC setting search Winners/Losers thread

And d20zine had a special edition that featured some of the settings.

your father is · Sep 5, 2004

Imagicka said:
*bump*

What? There wasn't anyone else who entered this?
No one cares to share their outline? *pouts*

I entered, but can't really post my 1-pagers since I have since developed them and sold them as stories (which you can read here, here, here, and here). Just because WotC doesn't go for it doesn't mean no one else will (just remember to remove any elements owned by WotC before submitting elsewhere!).

Tarrasque Wrangler · Sep 5, 2004

Mine lost because it sucked. Nuff said.

Thank god the link to it at the old EN World download center is broken - I don't think I want anyone reading that.

The Lemon Merchant · Sep 7, 2004

scadgrad said:
At the end of the day though, I think Midnight was the REAL winner of that contest.

It has been mentioned in other threads, similar in content to this one, but bears stating once again. Midnight was the the campaign world submitted that Fantasy Flight eventually published. The campaign world submission was Dawnforge.

Imagicka · Sep 7, 2004

Greetings...

Thanks Vagabond, and 'Your Father Is...', and let's not forget Vlos. I shall eagerly read those when I have the time.

A lot of people say 'Oh, mine sucked.' Well, how do we know that? Are they just going on the fact that they didn't win? Are they comparing their entry to what others have posted? -- You have to keep in mind, every time you read something new it's going to sound good simply because it is new. On the other hand, if you read something that is familiar to you, and you've seen something pretty identical in the past, it's not going to seem all that special.

Jürgen Hubert · Sep 7, 2004

Imagicka said:
Greetings...

Thanks Vagabond, and 'Your Father Is...', and let's not forget Vlos. I shall eagerly read those when I have the time.

A lot of people say 'Oh, mine sucked.' Well, how do we know that? Are they just going on the fact that they didn't win?

Well, my entry sucked. I never said that my world sucks, too - quite the opposite, in fact.

Basically, I had this grand idea for a setting, and then for the life of me couldn't think of some good writeups for some of the parts of the page (it didn't help that I didn't read the "Unofficial FAQ" floating around here, either). Oh, and I believe there were a few spelling mistakes, too...

All in all, it was pretty unprofessional - and profesionality was probably the most important aspect of the first round. Teaches me not to write submissions one day before the deadline...