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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 345237" data-attributes="member: 5435">Multi-setting book, please!I'm all for this program, and would certainly submit a proposal. I had a lot of fun with the 2 WotC proposals that I sent, and would love to do it again. I'd like to plug for a multi-setting format, however, rather than a single setting book, for the following reasons:First of all, I'm much more likely to buy a book with several settings full of exciting ideas. I almost never buy fully fleshed-out campaign books, which have too low a ratio of usable ideas to fluff. I think that it's usually GMs who buy setting books, and most of us already have a campaign world. The best books for us are full of interesting ideas that we can place in our own campaigns.Second, a multi-setting book wouldn't compete directly with the result of WotC's setting search. No one has put out anything like this yet, and I think that it would fill a nice niche in the market.  With less competition, the book also has a better chance of making the profits that we would like to send to charity.Finally, given that most of the people on these boards are not full-time game designers (although perhaps most of us would *like* to be <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />), asking someone to write 50+ professional pages seems a bit risky.  We have jobs, school, families, and other responsibilities, and putting most of the book on the shoulders of one winner may be a bad idea.  A book of less-developed settings is more likely to get finished and published quickly, I think.How about a 128-pager, with the top 8 settings each contributing 10-20 pages? That's enough roomto showcase all the really cool and innovative aspects of each setting, I think, and the book would be full of stuff that everyone can use--interesting twists on the core rules, new races, unusual conflicts, adventure hooks, etc. The page count is small enough that pretty much everyone will have time to write their share, so there's less risk of the winner flaking and holding up production.We could still judge and vote for number 1, maybe giving a slightly higher share of the profits to the winning entry... 7 settings getting 2% each, for example, and the winner getting 6%.What do you think?--Ben Mathiesen<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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