Original Campaigns from Wizards Campaign Creation contest

[Ishmayl]

Is there a comprehensive list anywhere that shows other worlds that were entered into Wizards campaign creation contest (but were beaten by that turd, Eberron)? I would love to see what other kinds of fully developed ideas were out there. For instance, Dawnforge, by Fantasy Flight Games, was one of the semi-finalists, I believe, and it's a great setting. Are there more that anyone knows of that have extensive sites and campaigns going?

 

[Aeolius]

For some odd reason, my aquatic setting was not chosen.. go figure

On a side note, if you want the leather-bound PH or the D&D coffee table book, better not look at Cosmic Castle. Karen didn't think she could sell enough of them to make an order.

And hey...about that fine damselfish hivemind (swarm, aquatic) member of Xaetra's new Clutch...

 

[Ishmayl]

Yeah Aeo,
Mine wasn't chosen either... I've heard of a lot of peoples' campaigns that weren't chosen, and every single thing I've heard of so far sounds better than Eberron (Forgotten Realms: the sequel?). Oh well... any lists out there?

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

This link has a fair number of the proposals, though naturally not all of them by a long shot.

My setting lost out in the Setting Search, too, but I'm not griping about it because (a) in retrospect my one-page wasn't as good as it should have been, and (b) Eberron really is rather good - at least, in my opinion.

Plus, I'm trying to develop my setting on my own so that I can publish it in another year or two. You can see my current efforts here.

 

[Umbran]

Is there a comprehensive list anywhere that shows other worlds that were entered into Wizards campaign creation contest (but were beaten by that turd, Eberron)?

The only people who would be able to privode a comprehensive list would be WotC, as they were the only people to see all of them. But the contest only took the rights for a few of the top entries. They don't have the right to publish the ones who didn't make it, so no such list exists.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Morningstar, by RSKennan (an ENWorld member, by the way), was a semi-finalist. It was published last year by Goodman Games. There's a second book coming out. It had two things that made it good in my mind: a lot of imaginitive ideas and an unabashedly magical world based on the Roman Empire instead of medievalism redux. Wizards still has two finalist proposals of about a hundred pages each that they never announced what they were doing with. A couple other entries have become published, but I forget right now what they were.

 

[dougmander]

Is there a comprehensive list anywhere that shows other worlds that were entered into Wizards campaign creation contest (but were beaten by that turd, Eberron)? ... Are there more that anyone knows of that have extensive sites and campaigns going?

That would be a pretty long list -- I bet there are some real gems, though. The link that Jürgen posted is a good start. My own submission to the campaign setting contest was handily rejected but will be published next year by Atlas Games, huzzah!

 

[Yair]

That would be a pretty long list -- I bet there are some real gems, though. The link that Jürgen posted is a good start. My own submission to the campaign setting contest was handily rejected but will be published next year by Atlas Games, huzzah!

:blink: I thought Atlas was out of the d20 buisness. Regardless, congradulations!

 

[Veritas]

Morningstar, by RSKennan (an ENWorld member, by the way), was a semi-finalist. It was published last year by Goodman Games. There's a second book coming out. It had two things that made it good in my mind: a lot of imaginitive ideas and an unabashedly magical world based on the Roman Empire instead of medievalism redux. Wizards still has two finalist proposals of about a hundred pages each that they never announced what they were doing with. A couple other entries have become published, but I forget right now what they were.

Didn't Wizard's legal documents claim ownership of all campaigns entered in the contest? How did Kennan get Morningstar published? Did he buy back the rights, or did Goodman Games do so? I'm curious.

 

[Knight Otu]

As far as I know, only the top three settings were claimed by WotC. The remaining settings were kept by their creators.