[FFG] Legendary Class Design Contest!

[d20Dwarf]

[Edit- sorry about this, Wil, but I plan to link to this thread from the main page and thought it best to insert all of the details to the first post here]

Fantasy Flight Games are holding a Legendary Class Contest. The contest will be hosted here at EN World. Your task is to create a Legendary Class - ten winners will receive a copy of Path of the Sword. All entries will remain archived here at EN World.

• Here is a PDF document explaining Legendary Classes .
• The closing date is 15 July, 2002.
• The contest will be judged by FFG staff.
• All entries should be sent to morrus@d20reviews.com. The subject of your email should read "FFG Contest" (without the quote marks). Please make sure you type that exactly, as my email program will sort the entries automatically into a separate folder - anything not in that folder does not get entered.
• Your entry should be an RTF file. No exceptions.
• This contest is only for designing legendary classes applicable to Fighters, Barbarians, Monks, and Rangers.

[Original post from Wil

As mentioned on the front page, we are holding a contest in which you design a legendary class. I thought I would start this thread to field any questions you may have, and to post a clarification.

 

[XCorvis]

Better ask Morrus to post that on the front page ASAP before people really get into their legendary wizards...

 

[fba827]

Better ask Morrus to post that on the front page ASAP before people really get into their legendary wizards...

Better yet, let's see if we can get Morrus to link this thread to the front page with the rest of the information

 

[reddist]

dammit

I already wrote one for rogues. I missed that "fighters, monks, barbarians and rangers" bit when I read the first notice up front.

So why not the other classes, unless FFG already has good ones they want to use, and are looking to fill some holes in an upcoming book?

I had a fun one in mind for mages, too.

Poop.

-Reddist

 

[reddist]

duh...

Alright, I get it. Mages and rogues might come later

I'll just save these until THOSE contests roll around....


-Reddist

 

[d20Dwarf]

S-s-s-someone...f-f-figured out the answer to their o-o-wn ques-s-s-stion....

*walks away shaken*

 

[Khur]

Who owns the class?

The most important thing about any contest is the rights issue. People run these contests and rarely explain who owns the work submitted -- like d20 Magazine Rack's Depths of Despair contest.

Do submitters retain their rights to their work? If not, then nobody should submit anything for just a copy of a $25 book. Will Fantasy Flight be using the winning classes in any format for publication?

What about including art with the entry? Will that affect the scoring in any way?

Thanks.

 

[kingpaul]

OGC?

1) I echo the question on who owns the IP of the submitted classes
2) Will the Legendary Class idea be OGC?

 

[Yuan-Ti]

Re: OGC?

1) I echo the question on who owns the IP of the submitted classes

It does say that ALL entries will be archived at ENWorld... but I have no idea what that means in terms of IP and copyrights. Since there is no contract we had to agree to, however, feel free to sue FFG if they publish your LC without okaying it with you first, or if they try to claim that by giving you a book they "paid" you for it.

Morrus? Are we going to get confirmations that our entries arrived? Forgive my pestering, but I have never entered one of these contests before, so I don't know what your SOP is. And your comments to the effect that entries that failed to be RTF, or that misspelled FFG in the email subject heading would be tossed have made me a bit nervous.

Thanks.

 

[reddist]

IP vs open doors

Oy-

At $.05 a word (granted, thats the high end of the scale), two pages of text w/ approximately 700 words per page comes to roughly $70, give or take some with word count or page length. A submission of this nature probably should not take more than three type written pages.

So, ~$70 you MIGHT get paid if you sold such a piece as a freelancer, versus the ~$25 cost of a free book with your work in it, should you win.

You also might want to consider the good it will do for your freelancing career to win such a contest, having your name in the book, and gaining some recognition on these forums.

For someone starting out, with no real credentials, such a win might do their writing career some good. Get their name out there, let people see they can write something original, and attract the attention of publishing companies looking for fresh blood.


If you're already published and comfortable with the work you're doing, then yes this might be a waste of your time. If you're looking to start making a name for yourself as a d20 freelancer, or just to get your name in a book with a spiffy PrC you've created, then what the hell. You could do worse.

Personally, I wouldn't be concerned about the IP rights on 3 pages of material that I hammered out in a night or two. If trading it in gets me some recognition and opens a few doors to future work, I'm all for it.

-Reddist