My conscience stopped me from submitting.

[Randolpho]

The way I see it is this. It's $120,000. At my current salary, it would take me many years to make that much. I'm more than willing to pimp out my setting for a cool 1/8 Mil.

And I'm greedily happy that so many decided to take the artistic high-road, 'cause that means I've got a better chance of making it into the top 10.

Once there, it's a 30% chance for 20k. I make that, and it's a 33% chance for 100k.

Oh, yeah... I'll play those odds.

 

[Paka]

bringing down the land value on imaginary real estate...

This is a really interesting discussion.

If a world you play in every week and in you and your players' minds is a vivid place is put into a pretty WOTC book and sent out to the masses is it more or less real?

Does it change because thousands of us geeks will pick it apart, joke about it and make it the target of our love and abuse?

Is it sullied because some guy in Bumblebrush, Whereever takes out all of the parts that you considered important and inserted his own themes?

It is one thing to sit at a table and take your friends with you to a world that is important to you but it is entirely another to write it up, hand it to some shmuck (or some amazing DM) and ask them to impart it to their friends.

If you don't want to take part in it, bless you, less competition for me.

However, is it more moral and upstanding to do so?

It is what is right for you but it says alot of interesting things about the ownership and reality of our fantasy worlds.

 

[Wolfspider]

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?threadid=8609

 

[Jerrid Al-Kundo]

Paka:

My concern isn't other DMs; If so, my setting wouldn't be online and I wouldn't accept public input to its development.

What concerns me is WotC butchering the themes of the world to make it more "commercially palatable".

 

[Ds Da Man]

All joking aside, I would have leapt at this opportunity even without the money. I just think it would be great to have something that I created turned into a mass published work. I really don't care if someone else sent theirs or not, nor do I care if you sent it because of money, I just sent it cause I thought it was good of WotC to seek out the player's ideas. (But the money kicks a$$ too!)

 

[Aaron L]

Great link Wolfspider. It pretty much summarizes my opinion on this.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Well sure, if you go out and spend it all on candy and sports cars. The idea (at least my idea) is to use that money to make money.

How about ale and whores?

 

[MulhorandSage]

I looked at the open call/contest as a creative exercise, wrote a one page outline specifically for the contest, and had *fun*.

All judging is capricious, so I'm under no delusions I'll make the cut. But "write a one page paper detailing an original campaign setting that's different enough to be distinct from thousands of entries and yet commercially accessible enough to appeal to a mass market" was an interesting and enjoyable challenge.

Not to say anything against Ryan, but I'm sorry more people couldn't put the ownership issue aside. I'm tremendously fond of many of the RPG worlds that are out there, but I also feel that RPGs could benefit from more original world concepts - we're such a damned derivative medium and we're capable of being more. We need people with the creativity to develop interesting worlds and the boldness to take a chance and try to get them out to the rest of the world.

Scott Bennie

 

[Jerrid Al-Kundo]

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?threadid=8609

Yes, that was somewhat entertaining...

Here's my reply to ArcaneRunesPress:

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Well, since you lack the balls to bring this discussion into the thread itself, I figured I'd smack you around here:

Originally posted by ArcaneRunesPress

First, let me start simple: Arcane Runes Press? Never heard of ya.

If you don't want to send in your world, fine, but why do so many amateur "Artistes" believe that only they are competent enough to bring their precious ideas to life? Like this comment "It's more important to stay true to my imagination, inspiration and style.
Nay, it's more valuable to do so. Far more valuable than $120K (US)."

The above comment is from a poster who, in his own words, has "avoided a number of hints and turned down a few direct offers from various 3rd Party groups both in regards to my setting as well working on new material unrelated to my own "labor of love".

Yep, that was me. My latest "no" went to Mystic Eye Games, who instead of asking me directly, sent an "invite" to freelance for them via my wife (which is upsetting; Not asking me directly was my main reason for saying No, as I have heard of them).

And I stand by my convictions. The amount they offer is a tad more than my general salary, so I see no reason to hand WotC, or any one else, anything I design. As is, all the rules-type stuff I generate is already OGC, per the d20 Liscence, and I retain complete control over the Product Identity. So what have I got to gain by handing them my hard-worked efforts just to kiss it goodbye so they can make it some luke-warm version of itself to appease the masses?

So, the next time you decide to rip on someone, have the gonads to stick it in the thread you are addressing.

If your material is as ball-less as your posting habits, then by all means, stick to hiding on other boards.

And keep your own ego in check. After all, if your material was any good, I'd own some of it myself.

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Yep... I love the sound of hurtling cattle in the morning...

 

[Eosin the Red]

Jerrid ---


You should probably keep the nasty bickering over at the RPGnow forums ---- or edit you description(s).



However impolite it was, some feel that this thread is a case of sour grapes. Heck, if I was bangin down more the 100K a year, I wouldn't submit either. Are you good lookin