My conscience stopped me from submitting.

[Jerrid Al-Kundo]

Okay, I got nasty with the guy... But man, what a wenie.

I invite EN Staff to edit my post as they deem fit.

Now, my looks? Ehr... Ask my wife.

 

[Jarval]

Ranger, I can entirely see where you're coming from. I've entered the competition, but not with my main setting (I DM in three different homebrew settings, so I'd got a choice). Me and my brother have been playing in our main setting for seven or eight years, and we just wouldn't want to lose creative control. It's something very personal to us, and we'd both hate to see someone write something with our setting's name on it that we thought was rubbish.

 

[Aeolius]

I too sent in "watered down" version of my own campaign setting. Granted, as my game is set underwater, it was fairly easy.

I saw this "contest" simply as a self-motivating exercise. With the proper discipline, I could easily write 100 pages on either of my fortes; hags and undersea settings. So I took those, added a bit more, and just had fun with it, within the bounds set by the proposal template.

Heck, I might expand my one page proposal out to ten pages, just for the fun of it.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Okay, I got nasty with the guy... But man, what a wenie.

I invite EN Staff to edit my post as they deem fit.

I posted the thread on RPG.net because it has a wider cross section of opinion and, more importantly, a broader grouping of full time and part-time industry pros.

My thread isn't a rebuttal of your opinion, or the opinions of the others who's quotes I used, because, frankly, I think they're silly enough that I don't need to bother.

It has nothing to do with "hiding" my opinions on another board. Confrontations with digital phantoms don't scare me one whit.

Patrick Y.

 

[Jerrid Al-Kundo]

Per Eosin's request, which I'm sure is shared by many, I'll take you on in the thread you started at RPGNow.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Now, my looks? Ehr... Ask my wife.

He has a good job, is good looking AND he is getting some. . .

Sickening

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Per Eosin's request, which I'm sure is shared by many, I'll take you on in the thread you started at RPGNow.

"Take me on"?

Whatever floats your boat.

Patrick Y.

 

[Jerrid Al-Kundo]

He has a good job, is good looking AND he is getting some. . .

Sickening

Hey, Matt! Long time, no talk!

(Danyon says hi! )

Oh, we have a "Publisher's Announcement Forum" at the Reprieve if you want to come over and plug your stuff. I don't get by your Mortality.net Forums too often anymore (free plug!), but we'd like to hear about Mongoose's upcoming stuff.

(Link in sig... )

Anyhow, back on topic, I think the main reason most of the folks that didn't submit didn't do so because they design their games to fit their own tastes and that of their group. For such settings, the changes needed to assure "commercial success" would most often alter the setting to the point that it's almost not the same campaign anymore.

While most of these people would enjoy being published, it's the release of creative control that stays their hand. I do wish the best of luck to everyone that's made a submission (by the way, hey, Aeolius, long time/no talk to you as well). Niether submitting nor not submitting is better than the other. It was just a matter of choice.

This thread is simply a discussion of the reasons for the choice not to.

 

[Grazzt]

Now now kiddies. Everyone play nice with one another.

 

[rounser]

We masses are so unwashed!