one of the top 11. but no further

[Jürgen Hubert]

I put the classes in because they are pivotal to a main story arc of my world. Only one is a prestige class, the others are new classes. I'm partial to the Tactician myself. Especially if you've never run up against one before

Perhaps (and I want to stress that this is only my personal speculation) this is one of the reason they didn't select your setting for the next round - they might have been leery to introduce all-new "core classes" to D&D...

(And doing this right is tricky, after all - balancing them properly can be quite difficult.)

 

[2WS-Steve]

Thread Hijack Continues!! News at 11.

Remember that these are just the three people who chose to reveal their setting contributions to us; I assume they represent a random sampling of the 8 settings that didn't advance. If you chose three items at random from a group of 8 and they all shared one feature it'd be reasonable to assume that many of the eight shared that feature. And if that's the case it seems unlikely that they'd pick 11 proposals, most of which had the Silmarillion thing going, then, in the end say "nah" let's go with the three non-Silmarillion settings.

Also, we know these aren't causally disconnected events; Anthony Valterra and others specifically picked the proposals that would advance.

Moreover, it feels like the kind of choice WotC would go with. They want something different from FR but high magic, upbeat, and no worse than PG-13.

You'd think though that at least a few of the settings would have a different theme, standing out due to their inventiveness.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Re: Thread Hijack Continues!! News at 11.

Remember that these are just the three people who chose to reveal their setting contributions to us; I assume they represent a random sampling of the 8 settings that didn't advance. If you chose three items at random from a group of 8 and they all shared one feature it'd be reasonable to assume that many of the eight shared that feature.

Let me guess: You are studying journalism, right?

Seriously, 3 out of 8 is in no way a statistically significant sample, and any speculation on this is futile until we can see the others.

 

[2WS-Steve]

3 out of 8 isn't that statistically irrelevant.

Here's the chances of us happening to see only Golden Age settings revealed, given different numbers of Golden Age settings in the eight that made the semi's but not the finals:

3 GAs: 2%
4 GAs: 7%
5 GAs: 18%
6 GAs: 36%
7 GAs: 63%

And 8 GA's is 100% of course.

 

[jaults]

A new form of Activation Magic
Additionally, a ‘magic-technology’ exists in the form of Imperial ‘Activation Magic’. This allows any spell-casting citizen the ability to activate Imperial artifacts by using an unused spell slot of the appropriate level.

A Sample List of Imperial Artifacts --
Road Stones Activation effect: illumine roadway
Standing Stones Activation effect: teleportation to another attuned standing stone
Tower Glass Activation effect: communication with other towers

A specific Artifact Example: Travel Stones
Thousands of these Travel Stones are found near the Imperial roadways. Any spellcasting player character may activate them by approaching within 100 feet of a stone and expending a 1st level spell slot. Each stone emits a warmish glow mirroring the light of an orange-red sunset for the spell duration. The light will jump from stone to stone, following the spellcaster who activated it for the duration of the spell, or until the caster moves out of range, at which time the stone darkens after the spell duration expires.

    To drag this discussion back on topic, this is a COOL idea, and very reminiscent, to me, of Brust's Vlad Taltos novels. Members of the Empire could call upon the Orb (or something?) to tell time, talk to the empress, etc... I really like this idea, and need to find a way to work it in somewhere... Hmmm...

Thanks,
    Jason

 

[der_kluge]

I'm just amazed that someone else on here lives in Kansas!

 

[yragthecareful]

Re: Re: one of the top 11. but no further

    To drag this discussion back on topic, this is a COOL idea, and very reminiscent, to me, of Brust's Vlad Taltos novels. Members of the Empire could call upon the Orb (or something?) to tell time, talk to the empress, etc... I really like this idea, and need to find a way to work it in somewhere... Hmmm...

Thanks,
    Jason

---
Thanks! My initial idea was that any wizard or priest could use their power potential to activate items. I'm especially fond of Towerglass, which allows users to communicate over long distances. a.k.a. cellphones I wanted to play with the idea that many of the inhabitants of the Sunset Kingdoms would know what's going on all around the world. What would it do to people's pysche? Much like todays world of cell phones and instant news. Our world is much smaller today than it was a century ago.

Gary Pratt
yragthecareful
a.k.a. wizardoftheplains

 

[Darkness]

3 out of 8 isn't that statistically irrelevant.

It's 3 out of 11, though - and of the (larger) part of the 11 that didn't advance, at that...

Anyway: Congratulations that you came as far as you did, Gary!
And I hope for you that you still find a way to get your setting published - and possibly even become as important to D&D as another Gary did in the past.

 

[Ysgarran]

Resurrecting an old thread here.

Has anyone a firm accouting of what happened to the submissions that made it into the top tier?

How many made their way into an independent publisher?

When is the WotC winner supposed to be published?

later,
Ysgarran

 

[Tsyr]

Damn forum necromancers...