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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwentyQuestions" data-source="post: 344112" data-attributes="member: 6721">My two centsI think the idea of running a separate search is an excellent one, both as a gamer and a game-designer. As a gamer I'm interested not only in seeing the development of the best ideas out there, but also in seeing them in a 'raw' form, the work of their original author, rather than the 'cooked' form that Wizards will publish, which is for better and worse the work of a committee.As a game-designer I'm excited to have a second chance to have my setting published!To weigh in on some specific issues that are being discussed:1) Judges are better than open voting. The judges can be elected by popular vote but IMHO there's no system of Internet polling I'd trust.2) Although entrants should certainly be allowed to revise their 1-page entries, I don't think anything should be introduced that would *require* them to do so, including adding additional questions or imposing a limit on word count. (It should be self-evident that the best one-pagers are not the longest, nor visa versa).The arguments I've seen in favor of requiring revisions seem to be either aimed at making this contest distinct from Wizards' or limiting the number of entries/saving the judges work. I think that the charitable nature of the project and the unique emphasis of the EN World community and judges (which should and will include receptivity to unusual settings) will make this contest quite distinct from Wizards'. And having more entries seems like a good thing, not a bad one - I'd be willing to serve as a judge if necessary to put my money where my mouth is!3) I'd rather see a book with the top 1/3/10 than just the winner, but we could scale back the page differentials - 10 one-pagers, 3 ten-pagers and one 24-page winner would make a nice 64-page book.4) It's a nice idea to have the winner choose the charity, but it's impractical, both because all details of the project should be publicised before a winner is chosen, and because my ideal book would have 13 contributor/winners.BTW, I'm another person who learned about these boards thru the setting search, and I've found them invaluable - since I'd been checking the Wizards main page, which *still* reads "Setting Search Results Delayed", I'd still be biting my nails if it weren't for y'all!  Thanks for that and everything else I've learned here.</blockquote>

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