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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morgenstern" data-source="post: 346284" data-attributes="member: 5485">ContentsFirst off, I'd dump the idea of including 1-page entries~ they're being posted to the site. Why try to sell them when they're being offered for free at the same place?Second, I have my doubts about the actual utility of 10-page entries. That's not really a lot of room to work in, especially when you're talking about a world. A world unique enough to require a history and a few crunchy bits (can you tell I'm a mechanics writer <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=":)" />?) won't even begin to fit. Moreso if you include a map...My gut reaction, if I were planning to go to print with such a book (a possible outcome I would imagine given the success of some other .pdf products) would be a 96 page volume. That could easily be divided into two 48 page or three 32 page segments. Give equal time and equal pay to whichever ideas are choosen. Skip the elaborate pay schemes. This also takes some of the onus off the judges. You don't have to indicate a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, you can just announce them as among the winners. With ToC, OGL lisence, some art, and a few maps that is still about 18,000 or 27,000 words per writter.If it's wildly successful, you can do a volume II with 2-3 more settings.If a particular setting meets with oodles of praise, you can go into a follow-up book that is focused on that one book (and might be a purely pro volume done through Natural 20, given the amount of work involved).As someone who does write these things professionally, I have to agree that "word count" is generally the opperative term for understanding how much work you're gonna have to do creating one of these things <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=":)" />. And given that your winning setting probably won't be coming from a pro, you'll also need a schedule that allows for a bit more time to put it all together.Time permiting, I might volunteer to do some editing <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=":)" />.</blockquote>

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